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Issue briefing

Gender equality: it’s your business

06/03/2012

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those retailing and producing food and fast-moving consumer goods, and which source goods or labour in developing countries. Although many companies already do much to protect human rights in their operations and value chains, there is more that they can […]

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Briefing paper

Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project

07/02/2012

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2010, vast humanitarian crises from Haiti to Pakistan almost overwhelmed the international system’s ability to respond. Despite years of reform, UN agencies, donors, and international NGOs (INGOs) struggled to cope. In 2011, Somalia yet again saw a response too little and too late, driven by media attention, not a timely, impartial assessment of human […]

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Journal article

Locating young women in a plethora of issues: reflections from the tenth Young Women Leader’s Conference 2010

25/11/2011

16 pages long

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Locating young women in a plethora of issues: reflections from the tenth Young Women Leader’s Conference 2010

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The present article assesses the outcome of the tenth Young Women Leaders Conference, held on 27 September 2010 at Miriam College, Philippines. “As we see it: young women redefining active citizenship” was the theme of the conference. Its main objective was to inquire into the connections between thinking on citizenship, and Filipino young women’s activism, […]

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Campaign report

Weathering the Crises, Feeding the Future: Philippine food justice report

26/10/2011

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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At the height of the food price crisis in 2008, the Philippines was among the countries with ‘severe localized food insecurity’, requiring external assistance in food. A series of severe weather-related events in 2009 damaged the economy, costing more than twice the national budget for agriculture that year. In 2010, rice imports reached an all-time […]

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Journal article

Food-price hikes and the situation of farm workers in the Philippines

27/06/2011

8 pages long

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Agricultural wage labourers in the Philippines were especially vulnerable to the food-price increases of 2007–08. Their wages do not cover the costs of food, clothing, and shelter, much less healthcare and their children’s education. Food-price inflation reached 17.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2008. Farm workers had to spend most of their average […]

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Briefing paper

Owning Adaptation: Country-level governance of climate adaptation finance

13/06/2011

13 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As financing for climate change adaptation in developing countries begins to flow, it is essential that the governance of funding at the global and country level be shaped so that the needs of the most vulnerable can be met. The core issue is country-level ownership of adaptation finance. Providers of adaptation finance must put developing […]

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Journal article

Critical evaluation of planning frameworks for rural water and sanitation projects

01/04/2011

12 pages long

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Poor initial planning processes have been implicated in the high failure rate of rural water and sanitation development projects. This article critically examines 17 existing planning frameworks for rural water supply and sanitation projects with respect to key attributes of good planning practice, in order to discover the extent to which these address the elements […]

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Journal article

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

01/03/2011

12 pages long

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Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

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This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

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Journal article

Feminised recession: impact of the global financial crisis on women garment workers in the Philippines

01/07/2010

12 pages long

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Feminised recession: impact of the global financial crisis on women garment workers in the Philippines

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This article discusses the findings of Oxfam-commissioned research into the impact of the economic crisis on women garment workers in the Philippines. It provides policy recommendations aiming to ensure that measures put in place by the government and international bodies support the women workers who have seen their jobs lost or their working conditions worsen, […]

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Book

Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action

09/11/2009

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to influence the processes and institutions which shape their lives. The under-representation of women’s voices in decision-making and agenda-setting at all levels mean that their interests […]

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