Cameroon Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Research report

Mitigating the Risks of Private Sector Involvement in the Electricity Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

28/01/2026

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces an electricity access crisis, with over 600 million people lacking access to reliable power. Chronic underinvestment, institutional fragility and fragmentation, and operational inefficiencies have rendered many state-run utilities incapable of sustaining reliable service delivery, let alone meeting rising demand. In response, governments often running on budget deficits and influenced by international […]

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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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Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

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Briefing paper

Common Ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth

02/03/2016

3 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is growing evidence of the vital […]

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Case study

Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC)

01/03/2014

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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First published by Oxfam Novib in March 2014, this case study focuses on the advocacy component of the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) programme, which is aimed at increasing choice and financial and political support for female condoms among donors and implementers. Access to female condoms is far from universal and for a long […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

07/10/2013

6 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Innovations in Care Work Project proposes a methodology for assessing care work in rural and urban communities, and for discussing options to redistribute and reduce care responsibilities more equitably. The methodology is composed of two ‘companion documents’: The Guidance for Managers and Facilitators provides the background for making adequate and effective use of the […]

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Journal article

Collective action and promotion of forest based associations on non-wood forest products in Cameroon

01/11/2012

12 pages long

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This paper documents collective actions undertaken by forest-based associations to access better prices for their non-wood forest products via group sales. Group sales can increase the income of group sellers by up to 40 per cent compared to individual sellers. The institutionalisation of group sales reinforces social relations and cohesion as well as mutual trust. […]

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Journal article

Good intentions are not enough: French NGO efforts at democracy building in Cameroon

01/04/2011

14 pages long

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NGOs have traditionally had little scope to bring about political reform in developing countries. This was certainly true of French development NGOs (NGDOs) operating in Cameroon during the early post-colonial decades. This situation changed in 2002 when French NGDOs, with support from the French state and Cameroonian civil society, initiated a multi-actor consultative programme (the […]

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Journal article

Reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for participatory governance

01/03/2008

5 pages long

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Traditional approaches to fighting poverty have yielded unsatisfactory results in some African countries, and have been positively damaging in others. Economic growth and social expenditure on the part of both national governments and international donors have been ineffective in some countries, while in others they have exacerbated poverty. The author considers that this is due […]

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Journal article

Gender equality – whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon

01/02/2007

5 pages long

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Gender equality – whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon

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The political project of gender equality in Africa has gained momentum and made many achievements. However, these have been largely confined to the ‘big’ women working in the public and private bureaucratic contexts in which there is a greater commitment to gender equality. It is argued that in the context of Cameroon, until these ‘bigger’ […]

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