Bosnia and Herzegovina Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Bringing diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) into peacebuilding policy and practice

20/03/2018

17 pages long

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Bringing diverse sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) into peacebuilding policy and practice

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Peacebuilding sets out to respond to societal breakdown in times of violent conflict, but the needs and experiences of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI) have been notably absent from peacebuilding research, policy, and practice thus far. Individuals who fall outside the binary categories of women and men, or who do not […]

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Case study

Networking for Better Value Chain Inclusion: Reflections on Oxfam’s work in the raspberry value chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina

27/10/2016

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the world’s largest producers of raspberries. Oxfam has implemented pilot and follow-on projects that demonstrate the benefits of including poor smallholder farmers in raspberry production. This case study explains Oxfam’s networking approach in a multi-stakeholder environment within the raspberry value chain, and discusses how the project benefited poor farmers, […]

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Case study

Influencing Financial Inclusion in Programmes: Overcoming barriers to agriculture and enterprise finance

27/10/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Barriers to agriculture and enterprise finance are the result of the risks that service providers and investors usually perceive when supporting smallholder farmers, particularly women. Some of Oxfam’s programmes have successfully increased access to financial and other services through building the capacity of communities and engaging with a network of stakeholders. By successfully influencing the […]

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Case study

Supporting Pro-Poor Berry Value Chains In Bosnia And Herzegovina

05/08/2015

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the world’s largest producers of raspberries. Oxfam has been implementing a pilot project that explores how poor smallholder farmers – especially women farmers – can benefit by participating in raspberry production. The project has worked to adapt raspberry growing practices in favour of poorer smallholder farmers, and to support […]

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Journal article

From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

12/11/2013

12 pages long

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From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

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The way an issue is ‘framed’ (viewed and understood) has a profound effect on whether it is viewed as a priority for action by international organisations, states, and civil society. Wartime sexual violence used to be framed as a ‘women’s issue’, but since the issue gained widespread notoriety in the mid-1990s, it has shifted to being understood as a […]

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Journal article

Trajectories of transnational Muslim NGOs

01/08/2012

15 pages long

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INGOs

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Transnational Muslim NGOs are increasingly important actors in the field of aid provision. Much of the literature has presented a rather static and homogeneous picture of this group of organisations, overlooking their heterogeneity and changing nature. Tracing the historical trajectories of transnational Muslim NGOs, this article shows how changing political, economic, and social contexts have […]

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Journal article

Researching ‘a Family Affair’: domestic violence in former Yugoslavia and Albania

01/11/1998

7 pages long

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Researching ‘a Family Affair’: domestic violence in former Yugoslavia and Albania

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In 1998, the author, a feminist lawyer, carried out a research project on behalf of Oxfam GB, studying Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Albania. Maguire discusses the project method and findings, and urges international aid agencies to focus their attention on domestic violence, particularly by working with women’s organisations. This […]

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Journal article

Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

01/03/1998

6 pages long

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Migration, ethnicity and conflict: Oxfam’s experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina

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The article draws on the experience of Oxfam GB in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in researching and working with Roma communities, and focuses on the changes in the role of women as a result of the recent conflict. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and […]

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Discussion paper

The IMF, the World Bank, and Economic Policy in Bosnia

01/01/1998

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper considers the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic policy-making in post-war Bosnia, after the signing of the Dayton Agreement. The author reviews the political economic and social constraints on policy, the relations between the international financial institutions and the authorities in the region, assesses Bosnia’s debt situation, and the […]

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Book

Gender and Migration

01/01/1998

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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The articles in this collection explore the vast array of different reasons for women and men moving within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage, or in the midst of conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of […]

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