Mauritania Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Civic Space: The missing element in the World Bank’s Country Engagement Approach

22/09/2022

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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The World Bank has publicly committed to mainstreaming engagement with project stakeholders and civil society to achieve more inclusive development results. Yet typically Bank projects forge ahead to achieve these objectives without comprehensively understanding the dynamics of a country’s ‘civic space’, the actual environment in which communities will be engaging. This paper makes the case […]

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Case study

Mobilité Humaine et Résilience au Sahel : Défis et opportunités

24/09/2020

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Oxfam s’est engagé depuis 2016, en partenariat avec des organisations internationales et nationales du Tchad, du Burkina Faso, du Niger, de la Mauritanie et du Mali, dans la mise en oeuvre des projets de renforcement de la résilience dans des zones fragilisées du Sahel financés dans le cadre du Fonds Fiduciaire d’Urgence de l’Union Européenne […]

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Briefing paper

The West Africa Inequality Crisis: How West African governments are failing to reduce inequality, and what should be done about it

09/07/2019

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Inequality is at crisis levels in West Africa. While a small but growing number of people are becoming fantastically rich, the vast majority are denied the most essential elements of a dignified life, such as quality education, healthcare and decent jobs, despite remarkable economic growth driven by extractive industries. Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) […]

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Briefing paper

Sahel : Luttre contre les inégalités pour répondre aux défis du développement et de la sécurité

03/07/2019

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Malgré son potentiel de développement, le Sahel fait face à une crise sans précédent. Aux enjeux de développement préexistants s’ajoute aujourd’hui une crise multiforme, sécuritaire, humanitaire et environnementale. Cette crise prend aussi racine dans les inégalités et un sentiment d’injustice profondément ancré, en particulier chez les jeunes. Les inégalités sont criantes et se manifestent dans […]

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Briefing paper

Sahel: Priorities for Resilience and Development

01/12/2018

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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The Sahel has experienced a greater increase in hunger over the past decade than any other region. Sahelian states, regional organizations, and technical and financial partners have experienced considerable difficulties in providing a structural and sustainable response to food and nutrition insecurity. Yet hunger is not inevitable in the Sahel. Beyond the rhetoric, these various […]

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Journal article

Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

09/11/2016

15 pages long

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Refugees and ‘host communities’ facing gender-based violence: developing an area-based approach to gender-based violence around Mbera Camp, Mauritania

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The article analyses the impact of fragility and conflict on women’s and girls’ rights in eastern Mauritania, comparing the experience of Malian refugees living in Mbera Camp with the situation of women and girls outside the camp. Both experience extreme insecurity in everyday life: in addition to the economic need they endure alongside men and […]

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Briefing paper

40 Years of Exile: Have the Sahrawi refugees been abandoned by the international community?

28/04/2015

6 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Forty years after the Sahrawi refugee crisis began the social pressures on the men and women who live in these camps and the problems concerning their humanitarian situation are becoming ever more unbearable. Today, their voices must be heard. Oxfam has worked with Sahrawi refugees since the 1970s. Based on this experience, this report gives […]

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Briefing paper

Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future

16/04/2013

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid agencies were determined not to make the same mistakes again. This report […]

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Briefing paper

Mali’s Conflict Refugees: Responding to a growing crisis

22/01/2013

5 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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With conflict escalating in Mali, the aid effort to help some 145,000 refugees living in camps across remote, poor areas of the Sahel could become overwhelmed unless there is a step-change in the way aid operations are carried out. Since January 2012, nearly 375,000 Malians have fled the conflict in the north of their country. […]

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Evaluation report

Food for Thought: A civil society assessment on the state of play of the implementation of the Charter for Food Crisis Prevention and Management in the Sahel and West Africa

01/12/2012

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Oxfam has come together with civil society organisations across the Sahel to assess how well countries are faring in their commitment to more effectively tackle food insecurity. In February 2012, governments across the Sahel and West Africa adopted a Charter for the Prevention and Management of Food Crises, which laid out key commitments for all […]

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