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Peace Beyond Borders: A roadmap to peace for the Great Lakes region

30/04/2015

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Recurrent conflict in Rwanda, Burundi and North and South Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, collectively known as the Great Lakes region, will not be solved by top-down policies. Peace can be effectively attained only by engaging communities in understanding the root causes of the conflict and defining ways to address it. The Peace […]

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Journal article

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

09/07/2014

19 pages long

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Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

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From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women’s empowerment. The lessons and experiences from this initiative have been transformed into an online guidance tool being utilised throughout CARE to […]

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Case study

Our Money, Our Rights: Participatory budget monitoring in Burundi

01/03/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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First published by Oxfam Novib in March 2014, this case study covers the work of Parole et Actions pour le Réveil des Consciences et l’Evolution des Mentalités (PARCEM) in Burundi. PARCEM has contributed to the implementation of a project aiming for the establishment of local committees for the Citizen Control of Public Action in several […]

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Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

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Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

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Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

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Case study

Re-Integration of Ex-Combatants in Burundi

03/05/2012

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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They stood facing each other a long time in Burundi: 400 ex-fighters from two rival parties. These young people do not feel included in society, often have no work and live in extreme poverty. Therefore, politicians can easily persuade them to join their armed militias again. In a project of Oxfam Novib’s partner OAP they […]

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Discussion paper

Budget Support in Fragile Situations

11/11/2011

1 documents

208 pages long

Languages: English

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This study aims to provide an evidence basis for the provision of budget support in fragile states. The study sits at the intersection of three main sets of issues: fragility, budget support, and accountability (with a particular focus on the role of, and space or, civil society in holding government to account). The study provides […]

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Journal article

Reconstruction and reconciliation: emerging from transition

01/11/1997

4 pages long

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I wish first to address some of the simplistic myths about solutions to social conflict, and then reflect on problems that I have experienced with aid efforts organised by the international community, through the UN. In this, I shall focus on Bosnia rather than on Africa. Bosnia, as part of Europe, did not suffer the […]

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Peace Beyond Borders: A roadmap to peace for the Great Lakes region

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women’s empowerment: CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

Our Money, Our Rights: Participatory budget monitoring in Burundi

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

Re-Integration of Ex-Combatants in Burundi

Budget Support in Fragile Situations

Reconstruction and reconciliation: emerging from transition