Gambia Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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

Overview

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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Issue briefing

Turning the Tide on Ebola: Scaling up public health campaigns before it’s too late

30/10/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented. The accelerating number of cases, the poor health infrastructure in affected countries, the short supply of skills, knowledge and personnel, and the fear surrounding this disease are a huge challenge to affected governments and the international community as they battle to bring the epidemic under control. […]

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Evaluation report

Women’s Right to Be Heard: An evaluation of Oxfam GB’s ‘Raising Her Voice’ portfolio

04/11/2013

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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This final evaluation is both a meta-analysis of the national evaluations of the Oxfam GB’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme, and an assessment of the global portfolio as an entity. The former seeks to draw learning and conclusions from the evidence generated by the different RHV projects on progress, implementation and impact, review and update […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

07/10/2013

6 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Innovations in Care Work Project proposes a methodology for assessing care work in rural and urban communities, and for discussing options to redistribute and reduce care responsibilities more equitably. The methodology is composed of two ‘companion documents’: The Guidance for Managers and Facilitators provides the background for making adequate and effective use of the […]

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Research report

Applying Cost Benefit Analysis at a Community Level: A review of its use for community based climate and disaster risk management

01/03/2013

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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This report reviews 23 studies that have applied cost benefit analysis (CBA) to assess community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation projects. The review shows that CBA at a community level is adding value to our understanding of the effectiveness of efforts to reduce climate and disaster risk. The report concludes with key messages emerging from […]

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Case study

Strengthening Governance Programming Through Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Learning from Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme

16/07/2012

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Forty-five Raising Her Voice partners seeking to promote women’s political participation in 17 countries across the world have had to come to grips with tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG), both as a structural barrier to women’s participation in political life and as a consequence of effective governance work. This paper shares the strategies […]

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Issue briefing

Food Crisis in the Sahel: Five steps to break the hunger cycle in 2012

09/04/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The first warnings of drought and poor harvests in Africa’s Sahel region emerged in late 2011, and vulnerable communities in many areas have been threatened by a looming food crisis. That crisis is now a reality, with 18.4 million people in nine countries vulnerable to its impact. Food stocks have already run out for some […]

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Journal article

The influence of male migration on female resources, independence, and development in Gambian villages

01/03/2011

14 pages long

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The influence of male migration on female resources, independence, and development in Gambian villages

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This article examines how women’s situations in three Gambian villages are influenced by men’s migration to urban areas and abroad. It particularly explores the influence of men’s migration on women’s independence and power to make decisions, changes to the gender division of labour, the influence of migration on networks and resources in the household, and […]

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Journal article

New technology for rural women: Paradoxes of sustainability

01/02/1994

10 pages long

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This article discusses the difficulties of reaching relatively poor populations with labour-saving technologies. Taking the case of milling and dehulling technologies in Senegal and The Gambia, it presents a simple analytic model that helps to explain why the vast majority of these labour-saving machines are under-utilised in rural areas. Though donors continue to support such […]

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