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Research report

Gender Visible: Learning about gender integration in the Right to Food Programme

31/12/2020

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2018, the Oxfam Novib Right to Food Programme (R2F) team formulated an ambitious threefold learning goal around the integration of gender. First, it wanted to capture the diversity in the way the programme integrated gender. Secondly, it aimed to learn what is at the roots of this diversity. Lastly, it aimed to boost further […]

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Briefing note

Will the Cure Bankrupt Us? Official Development Assistance and the COVID-19 Response in Southern African Countries

18/12/2020

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa in early November 2020 exceeded 1.8 million, with 45% occurring in Southern Africa (SAF). Most SAF countries lack the capacity to adequately protect lives and livelihoods. High indebtedness means underfunded essential services, and most countries had just emerged from a severe food crisis and the effects of Cyclone Idai. Donors […]

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Case study

Climate Change Adaptation in East Africa: Mainstreaming gender-responsive and participatory approaches

04/12/2020

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows how convening influencing government practices and decision-making processes can have a transformative effect across government, bringing positive benefits to marginalized communities and millions of people. It also shows how NGOs can influence and support changes to government practices by playing a strategic convening role and becoming a systemic intermediary between different […]

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Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

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Media briefing

Who Takes the Heat? Untold stories of climate crisis in the Horn of Africa and Mozambique

23/09/2019

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Battered by cyclones and ravaged by extreme drought, poor communities in the Horn of Africa and Mozambique have found themselves on the front line of a climate crisis they did little to create. Yet the international community has largely abandoned the world’s poorest countries – providing support worth an average of just $3 per person […]

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Briefing note

From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses

12/07/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,000 people have had their land and crops partly or totally destroyed. Women and girls face particular challenges in the wake of the […]

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Briefing note

Leave No One Behind: Ensure the needs of women and girls are prioritized at the Beira Conference 2019

31/05/2019

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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In the wake of cyclone Idai, more than half of the estimated 750,000 people requiring immediate help are women. Their vulnerabilities are both extensive and multi-sectoral, yet funding to address these needs falls far short. The Beira Conference in May/June 2019 provides a critical opportunity to invest in transformative change so that women and girls […]

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Education resource

Cyclone Idai: Find out what has happened and think critically about what makes some people more vulnerable to disasters than others

03/04/2019

4 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique on the night of 14–15 March 2019 – this weather system caused extensive damage in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Strong winds, a storm surge, heavy rains and widespread flooding have had devastating impacts. More than 800 people have died across the three countries, with many more still missing and […]

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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

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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 […]

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Discussion paper

Is IMF Tax Policy Progressive?

10/10/2017

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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The IMF has significant influence on the tax policies of developing countries through advice and conditionality, technical assistance and by setting global standards and analyzing global trends. Its rhetoric has become more progressive in recent years. This paper assesses the IMF’s tax advice to developing countries based on five country case studies (Ghana, Mozambique, Nicaragua, […]

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