Ethiopia Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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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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Journal article

Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

08/05/2025

18 pages long

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Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia: Supporting land degradation neutrality

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Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD) crisis. However, both women’s rights to land and efforts to combat DLDD are complex, requiring both conceptual and practical […]

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Journal article

Helping Rural Women Secure Their Land and Resource Rights: Reach, benefit, empower, or transform?

08/05/2025

9 pages long

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Helping Rural Women Secure Their Land and Resource Rights: Reach, benefit, empower, or transform?

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gender transformative approaches

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This essay deals with helping rural women secure their land and resource rights and is based on International Fund for Agriculture Development's work and interventions.

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Briefing paper

Water-Driven Hunger: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Africa’s Food Emergency

30/04/2025

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly […]

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Evaluation report

Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review – Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future

10/03/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality. Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Journal article

Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

19/09/2024

19 pages long

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Making Money Moves: Rural women, returnees, and renegotiations of sex work through the street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Feminist research has highlighted both the emancipatory components of sex work on women’s lives, as well as the problematic nature of an overly romanticised reading of women’s sexual labour. In Ethiopian cities, including the capital, Addis Ababa, rural migrant women and returnee women from the Gulf States are confronted with layered forms of structural disadvantage […]

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Briefing note

The Case for SDG 6 in a Post-COVID-19 World: How targeted investment in water and sanitation can boost resilience

22/03/2023

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam and Unilever commissioned this research to test the hypothesis that increased investment in sustainable WASH access can help to improve preparedness towards any future global pandemic. By strengthening health and economic outcomes now, we also lessen the potential impact of future pandemics. The right investment breaks the cycle of low resilience leading to more […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Regional Influencing Work in Horn, East and Central Africa: A case study of the Rights in Crisis and Extractive Industries initiatives

28/11/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) Regional Platform was established in 2016. Among the platform’s far-reaching portfolio are two influencing initiatives – the Rights in Crisis network and Extractive Industries programme. Despite their ambitious scope and the challenging context, this report confirms that Oxfam has contributed effectively to change at all levels. These changes […]

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Briefing paper

Dangerous Delay 2: The cost of inaction

18/05/2022

7 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Somali, Spanish

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In 2011, Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people. Afterwards, leaders in the region made a commitment to end drought emergencies by 2022. The international community sought to ensure that there would be no repeat of the failures that led to famine. Next time, the world would heed […]

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