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Education resource

Global Music Lessons for ages 14-16

08/09/2007

6 documents

Languages: English

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Designed to tie in with Oxjam, these activities celebrate music from across the globe. Choose from numerous stand-alone lessons, offering opportunities for singing, performing, composing, improvising, listening, and appraising. You can also explore rhythm, timbre, texture, structure, and pitch by using music from many cultures and countries. Resources have also been created for ages 5-7, […]

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Journal article

Faith, gender and development agendas in Nigeria: conflicts, challenges, and opportunities

01/11/2006

13 pages long

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Faith, gender and development agendas in Nigeria: conflicts, challenges, and opportunities

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Religion is a dominant force in private and public life in most developing countries. Based on fieldwork in Nigeria, where Christianity and Islam are the two major religions, this article looks at ways in which religion interplays with development and gender equality, and what this means for development policy and practice. First, it explores conflicts […]

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Briefing paper

Justice for Nigeria: Why the UK should return Nigeria’s £1.7 billion to fight poverty

01/02/2006

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Nigeria, one of the poorest countries in the world, is in the process of giving a huge sum of money to the richest countries. UK organisations which are members of the Jubilee Debt Campaign are urging the UK government to return its share of this money to Nigeria to fight poverty.

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Market Access Programme in Middle and Sorghum Belt of Nigeria

01/12/2005

2 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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One of Oxfam’s two sustainable livelihoods programmes in Nigeria addressed market access for small-scale farmers in the Middle and Sorghum Belt. The pilot project ran from 2004 to 2005 and dealt with the marketing constraints of farmers. The final evaluation of the project was undertaken in order to enable Oxfam GB to: redesign it in […]

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Research report

The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries

01/09/2005

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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The global trade in second-hand clothing (SHC) is worth more than $1 billion each year. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries (transporting, cleaning, repairing, restyling, etc.). It also provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. At the same time, however, there are concerns that […]

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Journal article

Corporate responsibility or core competence?

01/06/2005

8 pages long

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Although the concept that corporations are responsible not only to their shareholders but also for the social and environmental impacts of their activities has now entered the mainstream, pressure is still required to ensure that companies honour their public commitments. This article describes the work of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility in harnessing the […]

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Journal article

United we stand: labour unions and human rights NGOs in the democratisation process in Nigeria

01/02/2004

10 pages long

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Human rights NGOs were the vanguard of the struggle for democratisation in Nigeria, but they had to forge alliances with labour unions and other groups to galvanise this process effectively. This paper explores the alliances between labour unions and NGOs in the struggle against military dictatorship in Nigeria to analyse how horizontal relationships have fared […]

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Journal article

Early marriage in Eastern Nigeria and the health consequences of vesicovaginal fistulae (VVF) among young mothers

01/07/2003

7 pages long

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Early marriage in Eastern Nigeria and the health consequences of vesicovaginal fistulae (VVF) among young mothers

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This paper deals with the problem of early marriage and childbirth in eastern Nigeria, particularly among the Ibibio ethnic group. I intend this paper to be a tool to help both human-rights activists and policy makers to effect positive change for girl children affected by early marriage. First, the paper examines the challenges posed to […]

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Discussion paper

Measuring Poverty in Nigeria

01/01/2003

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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There is no shortage of written materials about the nature and prevalence of poverty in Nigeria, but they are not all easily accessible by civil-society groups. Measuring Poverty in Nigeria was commissioned by Oxfam GB to support the development of its new programme of poverty-alleviation work in a society that is rich in human and […]

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Journal article

Conceptual issues in Nigeria’s gender-specific rural poverty alleviation strategy

01/02/2002

5 pages long

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Conceptual issues in Nigeria’s gender-specific rural poverty alleviation strategy

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Gender-specific strategies have become very popular in efforts to achieve the sustainable alleviation of rural poverty in Africa. However, there is growing concern that this strategy is based upon weak conceptual grounds. Based on insights gleaned from years of involvement with women-only development projects in Nigeria, the authors highlight some key conceptual challenges to this […]

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