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Briefing paper

Colombia: Contested spaces briefing paper

01/03/2013

2 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Colombia has one of the longest-running armed conflicts in the world. This briefing paper draws on Oxfam’s research in Colombia in late 2011 into the impacts of Colombia’s stabilization programme, the National Consolidation Plan (NCP). Interviewees clearly indicated that the NCP and other stabilization efforts had failed to make communities more secure, often leaving them […]

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Evaluation report

The Enterprise Development Programme Annual Review 2012

25/01/2013

1 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

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This report offers a cumulative picture of Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) over the last four years. It also marks the continuing evolution of the initiative as it builds on the learning, challenges and achievements of this pilot model that aims to create economic opportunities for some of the world’s poorest communities.

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Journal article

Mainstreaming women’s safety in cities into gender-based policy and programmes

07/11/2012

18 pages long

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Mainstreaming women’s safety in cities into gender-based policy and programmes

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The importance of women’s safety and security in cities throughout the world is now widely recognised. An extensive range of state and civil society institutions currently implement a range of cutting-edge ‘good practice’ policies, programmes, and projects to address this issue. This article raises two pertinent questions that inform the (re)conceptualisation of such programmes. First, […]

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Briefing paper

Putting Women’s Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty

29/06/2012

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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This report complements the call for the inclusion of gender-based violence within the Arms Trade Treaty by Amnesty International, IANSA Women’s Network, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Religions for Peace International. It details the issue of gender-based violence and language needed in the treaty. It also sets out how the threshold to […]

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Discussion paper

Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?

28/06/2012

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What role can companies play in strengthening the capacity of small-scale producers in developing countries to adapt to climate change, and in doing so, make their global value chains more resilient? While some leading companies have made progress in taking greater responsibility for what happens throughout their supply chains, there has been little discussion about […]

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Research report

Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia

01/04/2012

1 documents

131 pages long

Languages: English

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Following the publication of Oxfam GB’s Livelihoods Strategy 2010–2015, which incorporated poverty and urban-rural linkages as a core aim, this study was undertaken by an independent research team to determine the extent to which Oxfam’s rural livelihoods experience –- focused primarily on enterprise development –- is transferable to urban contexts. The research for this study, […]

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Issue briefing

Gender equality: it’s your business

06/03/2012

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those retailing and producing food and fast-moving consumer goods, and which source goods or labour in developing countries. Although many companies already do much to protect human rights in their operations and value chains, there is more that they can […]

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Briefing paper

Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project

07/02/2012

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2010, vast humanitarian crises from Haiti to Pakistan almost overwhelmed the international system’s ability to respond. Despite years of reform, UN agencies, donors, and international NGOs (INGOs) struggled to cope. In 2011, Somalia yet again saw a response too little and too late, driven by media attention, not a timely, impartial assessment of human […]

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Briefing paper

The ‘Right’ Results: Making sure the results agenda remains committed to poverty reduction

29/09/2011

6 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Donor governments are prioritizing aid ‘results’ in advance of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HFL4) in Busan, Korea, due to take place at the end of 2011. But there is a real risk that their efforts will lead to a poorly designed results policy that could undo years of work to make […]

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Book

Small Farmers, Big Change: Scaling up impact in smallholder agriculture

29/09/2011

1 documents

142 pages long

Languages: English

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Support for smallholder agriculture is increasingly important, both to boost productivity during food crises and to raise the incomes of rural poor people. However, in order to maximize the potential of agricultural investment, NGOs and other development organizations need to act as facilitators of multistakeholder processes that establish new types of farmer organization; to create […]

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