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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

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In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Humanitarian Work

01/01/2001

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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This collection of articles explores the interface between gender and humanitarian work. Several contributors focus on humanitarian activity during natural disasters, or analyse responses to conflict. Others consider the post crisis period of reconstruction, and provide lessons and recommendations for conflict resolution and peace-building. While the difficulties of integrating gender equity goals into interventions are […]

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Discussion paper

Access to Health and Education Services in Ethiopia: Supply, demand, and government policy

01/01/2001

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105 pages long

Languages: English

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This report analyses the findings of an extensive research project conducted by Oxfam in Ethiopia. In the context of Ethiopia’s rising external debt, and the new decentralised system of regional governance, members of four communities, both rural and urban, were interviewed in depth about the problems that they encounter in trying to access basic health […]

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Journal article

Whose practice counts? Experiences in using indigenous health practices from Ethiopia and Uganda

01/11/2000

12 pages long

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There is considerable focus nowadays on the involvement of communities in planning their own projects. Much of this involvement is in the form of verbal communication whereby villagers inform development workers of their problems and how they propose to solve them. Drawing on experience from two projects in Uganda and Ethiopia, this article argues that […]

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Journal article

Barter in practice: a case study of liwac transaction in Addis Ababa

01/05/2000

6 pages long

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The author examines the contemporary liwac or barter system in Addis Ababa, a thriving part of the informal economy which involves the exchange of household goods for second-hand clothes and shoes. He concludes that this form of transaction positively co-exists with and is not superseded by the monetised economy. This article is hosted by our […]

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Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

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A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

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Briefing note

Africa’s Forgotten Crises: people in peril: Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Congo

09/09/1999

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the current emergencies, and the opportunities for peace, in five countries. Four of them fall within the fifteen poorest countries in the world. These countries are so desperately poor that war – and in Ethiopia, drought too – means they can no longer cope without much more international help.

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Discussion paper

Acceptability and Use of Cereal-Based Foods in Refugee Camps: Case-studies from Nepal, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

01/01/1998

1 documents

136 pages long

Languages: English

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The fortification of cereal-based food rations is increasingly accepted to be the most effective way of preventing micronutrient deficiencies in large refugee camps. Little is known, however, about the degree to which such foods are acceptable to refugees, or how they actually use them. These factors are important in considering how and when the foods […]

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Discussion paper

Pastoral Livelihoods in Danger: Cattle disease, drought, and wildlife conservation in Mursiland, south-western Ethiopia

01/01/1995

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is the outcome of a field study carried out with cattle herders in northern Mursiland, Ethiopia, on behalf of Oxfam GB. Its immediate purpose was to seek the views of local herd-owners on how the pastoral economy could be strengthened, without external intervention, in a remote area prone to cattle disease and drought. […]

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Discussion paper

Famine, Needs-Assessment and Survival Strategies in Africa

01/01/1993

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40 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security

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In recent years, increasing attention is being given to the existence of a variety of ‘survival strategies’ which enable communities facing situations of famine or food shortage to survive the crisis. These strategies are cited as an explanation of why predicted famines failed to materialise, in terms of increased mortality, despite inadequate relief efforts on […]

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