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Case study

Food prices and how people are eating: Views from ‘Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility’

26/08/2014

7 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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How do households cope with increases in food prices? How have their eating habits changed in the face of food price volatility? These case studies form part of the second year of Oxfam–IDS research project Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, which examines how food price volatility affects everyday life in 10 low- […]

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Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

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Journal article

Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

09/07/2014

18 pages long

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Reflections on Womankind Worldwide’s experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women’s rights programming

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There are a number of technical, conceptual, and institutional challenges in monitoring and evaluating programme work and advocacy on women’s rights. Measuring progress and change is difficult because of the complexity and variety of the work involved in women’s rights projects and programmes, and their limited time-frames. In order to capture change, to promote learning […]

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Research report

Help Yourself! Food Rights and Responsibilities: Year 2 findings from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

05/06/2014

12 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Help Yourself! provides the second year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life and uncovers grassroots realities related to the right to food. Do people at risk of hunger think they have a right to food? What does a right to food mean, and how can it be claimed […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Incorporating the Use of ICTs into Oxfam’s Markets-based Livelihoods Programmes: A guidance paper

13/05/2014

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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This Guidance Paper considers ways of incorporating ICTs into markets-based livelihoods programmes. It suggests ways to identify and then use the opportunities offered by ICTs particularly in agriculture. These can include information services, value chain linkages, and financial services. The paper presents a pragmatic and strategic approach that minimises time and cost requirements while maximising […]

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Research report

Investigating Resilience Thresholds in sub-Saharan Africa

06/05/2014

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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‘Getting to zero’ – the post-2015 development aim of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 – involves not just ensuring that people currently in poverty escape from it but also that people do not fall into poverty in the future. Is there a ‘resilience threshold’: a line which, once people are living over, means that they […]

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Journal article

Introduction to Gender and Education

20/03/2014

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Journal article

She called, she Googled, she knew: girls’ secondary education, interrupted school attendance, and educational use of mobile phones in Nairobi

20/03/2014

11 pages long

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She called, she Googled, she knew: girls’ secondary education, interrupted school attendance, and educational use of mobile phones in Nairobi

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Girls in Kenya commonly face multiple barriers to school attendance. At the same time, mobile phone use is growing throughout the country, and particularly in urban centres including Nairobi. As this technology spreads, the possibility increases of people using mobile phones for their own development purposes, including for education and learning. This article examines mobile […]

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Discussion paper

Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices

01/03/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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In an era of land grabs and environmental uncertainty, improving smallholder productivity has become a higher priority on the agenda for poverty reduction and food security. Yet emerging evidence about the realities and social norms and desires of young people in developing countries indicates a reasonably widespread withdrawal from work on the land as an […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Implementing the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: Analysing the compliance of Kenya’s legal framework

01/03/2014

1 documents

132 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is a joint initiative between the Lawyers’ Circle and Oxfam. It analyses the implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol in Kenya. The Maputo Protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women. The report analyses the […]

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