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Journal article

Putting gender equality at the heart of social protection: lessons from Oxfam GB’s experience with safety net programming

01/07/2011

10 pages long

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Putting gender equality at the heart of social protection: lessons from Oxfam GB’s experience with safety net programming

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The economic and food crises have dramatically increased the number of chronically poor people globally, rendering many more vulnerable to destitution should they experience even small shocks to income and food supply. In response, Oxfam has extended its work on social protection, which includes a strong gender analysis component, from an initial focus on those […]

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

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Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

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Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa

01/11/2010

15 pages long

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Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes two case studies of actual policy change – on dairy marketing in Kenya, and on urban agriculture in Kampala […]

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Case study

Kenya: Reducing disaster risk in Turkana District

12/10/2010

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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The Turkana district lies in northwestern Kenya, bordered by Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Pastoralism is the main economic activity due to the arid environment. The region is geographically isolated and has a low population density, which makes it challenging and expensive to work with communities. The region has suffered from limited and often inappropriate investment […]

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Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

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Journal article

Free primary education still excludes the poorest of the poor in urban Kenya

01/06/2010

8 pages long

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The Kenyan government introduced free primary education in 2003 in order to universalise access to primary education. Although the policy allows universal coverage, it ought to benefit the poor most as they are the ones who were excluded from the education sector before the policy was introduced. Using household-survey data collected in Nairobi, this contribution […]

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Briefing note

Urban Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: The urgent need for co-ordinated action to reduce urban poverty

10/09/2009

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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The scale of urban poverty in Kenya is something that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore. Between a third and half of the country’s urban population live in poverty. The country is urbanising at such a speed that it is projected to be 50 per cent urban by 2020, and half of all Kenya’s […]

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Technical briefing

Working with Community Committees

01/08/2009

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Community building

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Strong community participation, often channelled through beneficiary groups or committees, is the backbone of Oxfam’s approach to Public Health programming. It facilitates community-led project design, implementation and monitoring, and encourages participation and accountability. Working with committees also allows us to work effectively with large populations and to continue activities when it is not safe or […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation Of the Regional Pastoral Programme in the HECA Region

01/03/2009

2 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Horn/East Africa Regional Pastoral Programme (RPP) is a 15 year programme which seeks to address the poverty and marginalisation of pastoralists in the Horn and East African countries of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This is a mid-term evaluation of the regional programme, which commenced in 2003. The purpose is to assess […]

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Journal article

Private extension-service provision for smallholder horticultural producers in Kenya: an approach

01/01/2009

8 pages long

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Development methods

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An approach to establishing improved private extension-service provision for smallholder horticultural producers in Kenya was developed between 2003 and 2005 by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology and Natural Resources Institute in the UK, in collaboration with EurepGAP FoodPLUS GmbH and the House of Quality-South Africa, international NGOs, export companies, and out-grower farmer […]

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