Benin Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Case study

Échange sud-sud pour accroître la sécurité alimentaire : Songhai

01/05/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: French

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Cette étude de cas porte sur une démarche de coopération Sud-Sud réalisée autour de la visite du centre de formation Songhaï au Bénin. Elle fait ressortir les résultats en matière d’acquisition de nouvelles connaissances portant sur tout le cycle de production agroalimentaire et leur application subséquente par les personnes participantes, tout en identifiant les facteurs […]

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Media briefing

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

02/12/2019

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk. Eighty percent of those displaced in the last decade live in Asia, home to […]

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Journal article

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

05/11/2019

13 pages long

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Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

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Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the […]

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Briefing paper

The West Africa Inequality Crisis: How West African governments are failing to reduce inequality, and what should be done about it

09/07/2019

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Inequality is at crisis levels in West Africa. While a small but growing number of people are becoming fantastically rich, the vast majority are denied the most essential elements of a dignified life, such as quality education, healthcare and decent jobs, despite remarkable economic growth driven by extractive industries. Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) […]

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Case study

Young People Co-Design Regional Framework: Developing a Regional Framework on Youth Employment in West Africa

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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The Regional Framework on Youth Employment was co-designed with young people from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal during a co-creation workshop that took place from 3-9 April 2016 in Cotonou, Benin. The workshop brought together 46 people to support the development of programming on the strategic issue of youth employment, including 22 […]

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Research report

Legislative Wins, Broken Promises: Gaps in implementation of laws on violence against women and girls

08/03/2017

4 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This multi-country research report examines the problem of implementation gaps – government failures to fulfill their legislative obligations to address and prevent violence against women and girls. It presents a comparative analysis of shortfalls between government commitments as laid out in laws, and the realities for survivors of violence as they try to access services […]

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Evaluation report

Assessing Oxfam’s Contribution to Changes in Social Norms in VAWG/GBV Programming Globally

08/02/2016

1 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

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This document focuses on assessing the outcome of Gender Justice Change Goal: Violence against women is significantly less socially accepted and prevalent by 2019. The key question that frames this evaluation is: how has Oxfam contributed to changing cultural norms and ultimately behaviours to prevent GBV?

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Education resource

Raising Her Voice: Explore the power of music with this teaching resource for ages 7-11

28/10/2014

2 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Inspire and motivate learners to explore the role of music in social change. Focusing on West Africa, this resource will guide learners through an exploration of aspects of the culture, history and experiences of people in Benin, Mali and Senegal, and of how music can be used to express people’s voices. This resource can be […]

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Journal article

Protecting children from trafficking in Benin: in need of politics and participation

01/06/2012

12 pages long

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This paper critically examines policy in Benin against child trafficking. Drawing on interviews and participant observation with adolescent labour migrants and their communities, it problematises both the assumptions underpinning anti-trafficking policy and the appropriateness of the initiatives that comprise it. It suggests that, in order truly to protect the young labour migrants defined as trafficked, […]

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