Côte D'Ivoire Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Annual report

Enhancing Livelihoods Fund: Final Report

29/01/2021

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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Over a quarter of the world’s population makes a living farming and working on small areas of land. These smallholder farmers contribute significantly to global food supply chains, but despite this make up a large proportion of the world’s poorest people, with many living on less than $2 a day. Between 2015 and 2020, Oxfam, […]

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Briefing paper

Owning the Outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable

03/10/2016

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past six years, the International Finance Corporation has channelled over $50bn to the financial sector, and its long-term investments in financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds have dramatically risen by 45 percent over that same period. However, the evidence continues to grow that this private sector arm of the […]

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Discussion paper

Women’s Rights in the Cocoa Sector: Examples of emerging good practice

10/03/2016

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Women cocoa farmers are central to the sustainability of the cocoa supply chain and cocoa-growing communities. Too often unrecognized and undervalued, women’s labor makes significant contributions to the amount of cocoa produced, which is under increasing demand. Empowering women cocoa farmers not only has a positive impact on the lives of women, men and communities, […]

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Journal article

Looking within the household: a study on gender, food security, and resilience in cocoa-growing communities

23/11/2015

16 pages long

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Looking within the household: a study on gender, food security, and resilience in cocoa-growing communities

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Many West African cocoa households experience a ‘lean season’ before the cocoa harvest, leaving them vulnerable to various events and issues which potentially cause stress – most notably food insecurity. This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its […]

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Media briefing

Mars, Mondelez and Nestle and the fight for women’s rights

26/02/2013

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Women in the supply chains of food and beverage companies get a raw deal, and evidence shows that the companies are failing to address the challenges adequately. Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard shows major gaps in the policies of the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies when it comes to protecting and promoting women’s rights. […]

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Technical briefing

Stop a Bullet, Stop a War: Why ammunition must be included in the Arms Trade Treaty

30/05/2012

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Guns are useless without bullets. An Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that does not control ammunition will not achieve its purposes. Ammunition is bigger business than weapons, with twelve billion bullets produced each year – nearly two bullets for every person in the world. The global trade in ammunition for small arms and light weapons is […]

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Technical briefing

The Devil is in the Detail: The importance of comprehensive and legally binding criteria for arms transfers

03/05/2012

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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According to new figures, more than $2.2bn worth of arms and ammunition have been imported since 2000 to countries operating under arms embargoes. This figure shows the extent to which states have been flagrantly flouting the 26 UN, regional or multilateral arms embargoes in force during this period. Oxfam is calling on the international community […]

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Evaluation report

Review of Humanitarian Advocacy in Liberia and Ivory Coast during the Ivorian Crisis

01/12/2011

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is part of learning activities undertaken by Oxfam’s West Africa Regional Office in order to improve the way that it conducts future advocacy campaigns during humanitarian crises in the region. Oxfam implemented an advocacy program in both Ivory Coast and Liberia. In both countries the advocacy work addressed the aftermath of the post-electoral […]

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Briefing paper

Towards Durable Solutions for Displaced Ivoirians

11/10/2011

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Six months after the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo and the end of major post-electoral conflict in Cote d’Ivoire, Oxfam International, CARE International, and the Danish Refugee Council have launched a report outlining the key remaining humanitarian and protection needs in the west of the country – the area worst affected by violence. Based on interviews […]

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