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Breathing Life into Democracy: The power of participatory budgeting

01/02/2005

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

Overview

With the massive global increase in urbanisation, new ideas are needed on how to manage and pay for the communal services on which people depend. Participatory budgeting is one such idea. PB is a mechanism of local government, which brings local communities closer to the decision-making process around the public budget. PB makes new connections […]

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Bringing Budgets Alive: Participatory budgeting in practice

01/02/2005

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Participation

Overview

This report describes how Community Pride Initiative have tried to use the principles of participatory budgeting, as developed in Brazil, to improve the way public money is used in Greater Manchester. It outlines how to create added value from adopting participatory budgeting ideas and shows that it is possible to operate participatory budgets using no […]

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Climate Change Impacts on Development: A note of Oxfam’s experiences for the Stern Review

01/01/2005

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13 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate change adaptation

Overview

Climate change – in the sense of rapid, large-scale and noticeable climate change, unusual in people’s experience – is happening already. This is having important economic and social effects. It is making life more precarious for many people, particularly those who are already the poorest. Yet people are not passive, but are changing their lives […]

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Let’s Talk to the Media: Practical guide for refugee community organisations and refugee practitioners on working with the media

01/12/2004

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The purpose of this guide is to share the Refugee Media Group’s experiences of working with local and regional media over 4 years encouraging accurate asylum reporting and ensuring the voices of men and women asylum seekers and refugees are heard. It is intended as a guide for refugee community organisations, or any local groups, […]

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Take the Guns Away: Afghan voices on security and elections

30/09/2004

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The voices of the majority of Afghans are simply not heard nor heeded in thecorridors of power in Kabul, Washington, New York, and Brussels. Inevitably, much of the policy discussion about Afghanistan in the country and around the world focuses on the big picture. While not claiming to be statistically representative of the Afghan population, […]

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Reintegration Assessment Report: Oxfam GB in Liberia

26/03/2004

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In preparation to work in post-conflict communities in diverse areas of Liberia, Oxfam GB undertook a study to better understand people’s views about the reintegration process. The Protection Advisor and Program Officer from the Liberia office spoke to approximately sixty individuals: civilians living in their home communities, displaced persons in camps and villages, and current […]

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Tarnished Legacy

04/02/2004

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

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A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali’s Syama Goldmine

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Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold

14/11/2003

3 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Extractives

Overview

A new claim under the investment rules in Chapter 11 of NAFTA has been initiated by Glamis Gold, a Canadian mining company that has demanded $50 million in compensation from the US because of California restrictions on open-pit gold mining. The initiation of the claim reinforces the threats to environmental laws from investment rules, and […]

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Migration and Development: Oxfam GB written submission for the international development committee

01/11/2003

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

Overview

Oxfam written submission for the UK Parliament International Development Committee, recommending that UK and EU governments reframe their migration policies to integrate social and economic development in migrants’ home countries with entry and integration in host societies.

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Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?

09/04/2003

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

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World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa

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