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Rapid Market Assessment: A beginner’s guide

15/11/2023

1 documents

Languages: English

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The purpose of this document is to introduce the minimum information required for becoming market aware, understanding risks (opportunity and threats), and designing and implementing market-sensitive programmes (including but not limited to cash and voucher programming).

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How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

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Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

26/05/2023

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […]

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Inclusive Language Guide

13/03/2023

1 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

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Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that we do not forget the role of language and communications in the context of inequality. The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Group Cash Transfer (GCT) Fact Sheet

27/01/2023

1 documents

1 pages long

Languages: English

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This factsheet describes how the Group Cash Transfer (GCT) approach seeks to transfer power to crisis-affected populations or community groups by transferring cash directly to selected groups and enabling them to respond to their needs and priorities. It emphasizes on how GCTs facilitate a shift away from sectoral silos and support both cross-cutting agendas and […]

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The Group Cash Transfer (GCT) Approach: Learning report on GCT pilots

27/01/2023

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides resources in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups to implement projects that contribute to the immediate survival and recovery needs of a crisis-affected population, benefiting either a sub-section of the community or the community at large. With funding from Oxfam […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How Can We Bring About Meaningful Change for Women by Investing Differently in Small Enterprises?

15/07/2022

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Oxfam-supported enterprises have generated high impact and demonstrated strong business performance. Now, the shift to make women’s economic empowerment a more central focus and the opportunity to generate more meaningful impact has put us on track to transition towards a new enterprise investment model. In the future, more attention will be paid to the structural […]

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Delivering Better together: Standard Operating Procedures for Oxfam’s Approach to Cash and Voucher Assistance

06/07/2022

3 documents

204 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Cash and voucher assistance

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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) puts people at the centre of responses and enables Oxfam and other humanitarian actors to think differently and deliver better. CVA is now widely accepted by the humanitarian community as a tool to deliver greater choice, flexibility, and empowerment to those affected by crisis, while strengthening local markets and systems. […]

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Unlocking Digital Cash and Voucher Assistance: A guide to digital options

06/07/2022

3 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Digital technology has facilitated greater efficiency, transparency, adaptability and scalability of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programs. Wherever feasible, Oxfam increasingly uses and promotes digital solutions and modalities to create better outcomes for CVA recipients through easier, faster and more secure and accountable means of delivery. This toolkit is designed to help CVA practitioners and decision […]

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Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

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