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Briefing note

Rescuing Education for All: How reform of the Fast Track Initiative should lead to a Global Fund for Education

19/01/2010

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Remarkable progress has been made in the last ten years toward achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goals. Many more girls are in school and enrolment rates are on the rise, due to higher-quality aid and to political commitment in developing countries. However, these achievements could be derailed by the global economic crisis, newly falling aid […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Disaster Risk Reduction in Drought Cycle Management: A learning companion

19/01/2010

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This Companion aims to support Oxfam staff to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) into programmes where drought is a significant hazard. In East Africa, this work is commonly called drought cycle management (DCM). Droughts have traditionally been viewed as one-off disasters requiring an emergency response. Typically, emergency responses focused on the delivery of food aid […]

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Briefing paper

Rescuing the Peace in Southern Sudan

07/01/2010

7 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The next 12 months will be critical for the future of Sudan. As the country marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended a devastating civil war, southern Sudan has seen a major upsurge in violence. In 2009, some 2,500 people were killed and 350,000 fled their homes. […]

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Briefing note

Bridging the Digital Gender Divide in Africa: A policy brief for the summit of the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2010

01/01/2010

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

African Heads of States and Governments gather in Addis Ababa for the 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union at a time when the continent faces a huge digital divide. African women are disproportionately affected by this divide. The Summit’s theme ‘Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development’ […]

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Technical briefing

Key Elements of Accountability For Emergency Capacity Building Project Agencies

01/01/2010

3 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project’s overall objective is to improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of the humanitarian sector’s ability to save lives, protect livelihoods and defend the rights of disaster-vulnerable communities. The ECB Project’s Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) advisors developed The Key Elements of Accountability to use as the impetus for a […]

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Discussion paper

A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The impact of the global economic meltdown on Zambia

22/12/2009

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The global economic crisis is having a serious impact on Zambia. In international trade, Zambia is a one-product economy. Copper accounts for some 70% of its exports, and prices have collapsed. If they stay at their current level, exports will halve in 2009. The most immediate social impact has been the loss of some 5,000 […]

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Briefing note

Climate Shame: Get back to the table: Initial analysis of the Copenhagen climate talks

21/12/2009

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance

Overview

Copenhagen was a unique opportunity to turn the world’s course away from climate disaster, towards a safe future for all of us on this small planet. Massive global public mobilization demanded it. But leaders of the major powers negotiated for their national interests, instead of safeguarding our shared destiny.

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Briefing paper

Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships: Knowing your community, improving public services

18/12/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Women in the UK are poorer than men: women working part-time earn nearly 40 per cent less than men, while the incomes of female pensioners are 40 per cent lower than those of male pensioners. Research commissioned by Oxfam in 2007 revealed that on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPS), increasingly responsible for much decision-making on local […]

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Research report

The Missing Middle in Agricultural Finance: Relieving the capital constraint on smallhold groups and other agricultural SMEs

17/12/2009

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

Overview

Private-sector finance has made a start in filling this long-established gap, widened over the last decade as public-sector financing frameworks for small-scale agriculture have been withdrawn. However, the flow of capital to agricultural SMEs needs to be scaled up. This paper looks at the barriers to doing so. Both transaction costs and risks are high […]

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Research report

International Conference on Extractive Industries Contracts

17/12/2009

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

Conference Report

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