Haiti Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

View resource

Research report

Empowering Local Governments? The LOKAL+ project in Haiti

07/07/2021

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

In Haiti, the traditional centralization of power in Port-au-Prince has far-reaching effects, one of which is the limited influence of ordinary citizens on holding local officials accountable for providing basic services like trash removal, water and sanitation, and maintaining healthy and safe marketplaces. From 2013 to 2018, USAID carried out a project known as LOKAL+ […]

View resource

Annual report

Enhancing Livelihoods Fund: Final Report

29/01/2021

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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, […]

View resource

Case study

Échange sud-sud pour accroître la sécurité alimentaire : Songhai

01/05/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Cette étude de cas porte sur une démarche de coopération Sud-Sud réalisée autour de la visite du centre de formation Songhaï au Bénin. Elle fait ressortir les résultats en matière d’acquisition de nouvelles connaissances portant sur tout le cycle de production agroalimentaire et leur application subséquente par les personnes participantes, tout en identifiant les facteurs […]

View resource

Case study

Réseautage et collaboration d’organisations locales sur la filière moringa en Haïti

01/05/2020

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: French

Keywords

Overview

Entre 2015 et 2020, le programme ACCES Innovation d’Oxfam-Québec a fourni un renforcement de capacités sur la filière moringa à cinq partenaires d’Oxfam du département de l’Artibonite, en Haïti. Ces partenaires — des organisations de femmes et des coopératives composées principalement de femmes — ont pu se positionner sur les principaux segments de la filière […]

View resource

Research report

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

View resource

Research report

Anchored in Local Reality: Case Studies on Local Humanitarian Action from Haiti, Colombia, and Iraq

31/03/2020

3 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Critiques of international humanitarian aid have long suggested that it needs to be more inclusive of actors from crisis-affected countries. Increased attention to this issue over the past decade or so has coalesced into a set of agendas often referred to as the “localization” of humanitarian assistance, “local humanitarian leadership” (LHL), and “local humanitarian action” […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Ten Years After the Global Food Price Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger

29/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Ten years after the global food price crisis, women are still disproportionately disadvantaged by structural and emerging market factors that mean that they bear the brunt of poverty and hunger. Women and smallholder farmers in particular have been negatively affected by trade policy, competitive markets, and the accumulation of private power. There is, however, insufficient […]

View resource

Research report

USAID’s AVANSE Project in Haiti: An assessment of its conformity with aid effectiveness principles

13/03/2019

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2013, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched Appui à la Valorisation du Potentiel Agricole du Nord, pour la Sécurité Économique et Environnementale—Aid to Realize the Agricultural Potential of the North, for Economic and Environmental Security, or AVANSE—in northern Haiti. This $87 million project, also known as Feed the Future North, runs through […]

View resource

Research report

Measuring Impact: A Meta-Analysis of Oxfam’s Livelihoods Effectiveness Reviews

08/11/2017

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of 23 livelihoods projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews between 2011 and 2016. Results show a statistically significant, positive impact on the welfare of participants, measured by household consumption and wealth. Analysis indicates an increase in household consumption of approximately […]

View resource

Haiti

Filter Resources by