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Resilience in Bangladesh: Impact Evaluation of the Promoting Sustainable Building in Bangladesh (PSBiB) Project

31/01/2020

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Promoting Sustainable Building in Bangladesh’ (PSBiB) project was implemented together with 3 partner organizations between 2016 and 2019. It aimed to reduce the negative impacts of the construction and house building industry in Bangladesh on the environment, livelihoods and communities, by enabling a transition from unsustainable Traditional Bricks (TB) to sustainable Alternative Building Blocks […]

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Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

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This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

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Evaluation report

A Final Evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets Programme (2014-18): Summary of findings

06/12/2019

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

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Evaluation report

Making Market Systems Work for Women Dairy Farmers in Bangladesh: A final evaluation of Oxfam’s Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme in Bangladesh

06/12/2019

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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Gendered Enterprise and Markets (GEM) is Oxfam GB’s approach to market systems development. The GEM approach facilitates change in market systems and social norms, with the aim of ensuring more sustainable livelihood opportunities for marginalized women and men. The GEM DFID AidMatch Programme (June 2014–February 2018) worked within the soya, milk and vegetable value chains […]

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Research report

Preventing Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Bangladesh: Understanding socio-economic drivers and legislative gaps

17/10/2019

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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Child, early, and forced marriage is a fundamental human rights violation, and it affects all aspects of a girl’s life. It disproportionately affects girls compared with boys, curtailing a girl’s education, limiting her opportunities, increasing her risk of violence and abuse and trapping her in poverty. In Bangladesh, 59% of girls are married before their […]

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Journal article

Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

11/07/2019

20 pages long

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Social and feminist design in emergency contexts: the Women’s Social Architecture Project, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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The rapid influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has led to the formation of huge camps, built on difficult terrain, short of space and with high population density. All these factors present numerous challenges to agencies seeking to provide latrines, water points, and bathing facilities. Feedback gathered from women and girls highlighted significant […]

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Discussion paper

Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development

04/06/2019

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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UK international development actors – from government to private sector and NGOs – can play a key role in fighting extreme economic inequality to beat poverty in developing countries. This paper shares key principles, policies and programmes that have emerged from Oxfam’s work with partners around the world in recent years, so as to encourage […]

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Evaluation report

Gender Equality and Resilient Development: Evidence from Oxfam’s Resilient Development Portfolio

05/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support increased gender equality so that women and girls and other marginalised groups can be involved in shaping a more resilient future. It highlights how such efforts have improved resilient development outcomes for women and their communities, recognising that much work is still to […]

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Research report

Pursuing Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Understanding employers’ views on decent work principles in the informal sector in Rangpur and Barisal, Bangladesh

14/02/2019

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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The Empower Youth for Work (EYW) programme in Bangladesh aims to make a positive impact on the lives of young women and men by improving employment or entrepreneurship opportunities. Oxfam’s local partner organizations are working to support young men and women to gain employment, which in this context is mainly available in the informal sector. […]

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Evaluation report

We’re Listening: An evaluation of user-centred community engagement in emergency sanitation

05/02/2019

3 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Community engagement in emergency sanitation is often limited and rarely monitored or evaluated, despite its perceived importance. Documented evidence of the effectiveness of rapid community engagement in emergencies is scarce. In 2017, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund launched a challenge to develop and test innovative community engagement approaches for emergency sanitation and to evaluate their effectiveness […]

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