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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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Overview

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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Overview

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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Overview

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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Overview

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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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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Overview

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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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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Overview

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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Case study

Leading by Example: How cities came to link rural producers with urban food markets in Colombia

09/06/2011

2 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Following decades of conflict and violence, millions of small farmers in Colombia remain economically excluded and trapped in poverty. Many city-dwellers and policy-makers are ignorant of their problems, or are not interested. However, an initiative in the capital Bogotá has strengthened links between rural and urban communities and has demonstrated that small producers can become […]

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Research report

The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

05/05/2011

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage broad debate.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Programming in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries: Programme policy guidelines

14/04/2011

3 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

There is no single prescriptive approach to working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. The underlying causes of problems and the dynamics of such contexts are too complex and unpredictable for that. There is a great diversity of underlying causes, actors, needs, opportunities, and responses. Staff are faced with immense challenges and work under greater limitations […]

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Briefing note

Sexual Violence in Colombia: First survey of prevalence

09/12/2010

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Spanish

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Gender-based violence

Overview

Sexual violence against women is very common in Colombian municipalities where armed actors are present. It is a crime that remains invisible and unpunished in Colombia. This paper presents the main results of the First Survey into the Prevalence of Sexual Violence against Women in the Context of Armed Conflict in Colombia, covering the period […]

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