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Strengthening Urban Resilience: Five emerging lessons

29/11/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Strengthening urban resilience is key to achieving Oxfam's vision of a world without poverty. Urbanization has become a major challenge for almost all countries around the globe. Cities and city inhabitants are facing additional and amplified challenges as a result of rapid urbanization, a changing climate and rising inequality in urban areas. The COVID-19 crisis […]

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Journal article

Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

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The waste sector is a significant and growing source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Most developing countries are minor contributors to global GHG, and produce limited emissions from municipal solid waste. However, as poor countries become integrated into global circuits of production and consumption, their contributions to global GHG emissions are likely to increase […]

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Research report

Water Supply in Protracted Humanitarian Crises: Reflections on the sustainability of service delivery models

03/09/2020

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

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UNHCR estimates that the average time spent by a refugee in a camp is 10 years, while the average refugee camp remains for 26 years. WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) is a crucial component of humanitarian response and longer-term recovery. Humanitarian agencies and host governments face many challenges in protracted situations and complex long-term humanitarian […]

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Briefing note

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 6: The case for gender-transformative water programmes

22/03/2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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As we approach the 10-year countdown to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is clear we are far from achieving SDG 5 on gender equality, and SDG 6 on universal access to water and sanitation. While gender equality and access to safe water and sanitation are often treated as separate issues, they are deeply linked […]

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Research report

Uprooting our beliefs: Examining social norms contributing to violence against women and girls, including child marriage

01/03/2020

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) is one of the most detrimental forms of VAWG and affects 650 million women and girls in the world today. The slow pace of change is largely the result of deeply entrenched cultural values, attitudes and practices that perpetuate gender-based violence and discrimination. With determination to accelerate this progress, […]

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Journal article

Migration as a window to empowerment: Nepalese women’s experiences in South Korea

01/08/2019

17 pages long

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Migration as a window to empowerment: Nepalese women’s experiences in South Korea

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Migrant women are often described as victims of the global economy: accounts of human rights abuses and economic exploitation have eclipsed more positive accounts of the impact of migrant work on women’s lives. Some migrant women are positioned to make use of new opportunities which they see as empowering, in contrast to earlier experiences in […]

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Case study

Water Supply Systems in Nepal: How to build better, more sustainable services

22/07/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, Nepali

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In Nepal, only 25% of water supply schemes are functioning well. While there are several approaches to setting up schemes, there is only one model of ongoing service management – community-based management through local water user committees. This case study describes how Oxfam, LeFil Consulting and Nepali enterprise SmartPaani have explored alternative models to boost […]

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Briefing paper

False Promises: How delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all

09/04/2019

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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A growing body of evidence shows that education public-private partnerships (PPPs) which support private schooling are too often failing the most vulnerable children and risk deepening inequality. Despite this, the World Bank has been increasingly promoting education PPPs in poor countries through its lending and advice. Oxfam’s research shows that over a fifth of World […]

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Journal article

Migration as a window to empowerment: Nepalese women’s experiences in South Korea

28/03/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Migrant women are often described as victims of the global economy: accounts of human rights abuses and economic exploitation have eclipsed more positive accounts of the impact of migrant work on women’s lives. Some migrant women are positioned to make use of new opportunities which they see as empowering, in contrast to earlier experiences in […]

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Briefing paper

Unfair Harvest: The state of rice in Asia

20/03/2019

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Small-scale producers grow most of the rice in Asia, providing food security, jobs and income across the region. However, a combination of worsening inequality in food value chains and the crippling impacts of climate change are leaving rice farming systems at a critical juncture. These challenges threaten the viability of rice production that underpins the […]

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