Sierra Leone Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Disrupting learning and evaluation practices in philanthropy from a feminist lens

12/12/2023

18 pages long

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Disrupting learning and evaluation practices in philanthropy from a feminist lens

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Patriarchal, imperialist, and colonial forces have long attempted to delegitimise global South epistemologies and elevate Western modes of thinking, knowing, and therefore being. In particular, within development discourse, the principles and practice of mainstream Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (popularly known as MEL) continue to legitimise these forms of knowledge construction, production, and dissemination. Traditional MEL […]

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Evaluation report

Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Sierra Leone: Impact evaluation of the ‘Improved WASH Services in WAU and WAR Districts’ project

10/01/2022

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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Between October 2016 and March 2019, the Freetown WASH Consortium, led by Oxfam with Against Hunger, Concern Worldwide and Save the Children as members, carried out the 'Improved WASH Services in Western Area Urban (WAU) and Western Area Rural (WAR) Districts' project. Broadly, the project aimed to improve the availability, accessibility, affordability and sustainability of […]

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Journal article

Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

23/03/2021

18 pages long

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Exploring gender, health, and intersectionality in informal settlements in Freetown

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This paper applies an intersectional lens to health in informal urban settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We explored how intersecting social characteristics including gender, age, wealth, occupation, and tenant status influence health and well-being outcomes. We found that hazardous environmental conditions, poor waste disposal, and waste burning contribute to health problems at a neighbourhood level. […]

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Journal article

Overcoming the ‘tyranny of the urgent’: integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response

11/07/2019

14 pages long

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This article contributes to discussions on the gender dimensions of disease outbreaks, and preparedness policies and responses, by providing a multi-level analysis of gender-related gaps, particularly illustrating how the failure to challenge gender assumptions and incorporate gender as a priority at the global level has national and local impacts. The implications of neglecting gender dynamics, […]

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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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Journal article

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

09/11/2017

18 pages long

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Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

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Natural resource wealth is not shared equally by all. While elites may capture the profits disproportionately in many contexts, marginalised social groups – including women – are less likely to experience the benefits of extraction, and are affected differently by virtue of their gendered roles in the economy and society. Women also tend to be […]

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Research report

Transparency is More than Dollars and Cents: An examination of informational needs for aid spending in Sierra Leone and Liberia

11/09/2017

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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Transparency in international aid is not just about fulfilling a requirement based on people’s right to access information, but also about making aid more effective. Transparency can help improve coordination and planning, enable accountability and build trust. Accomplishing these goals can be a challenge when there are many partners involved in channeling funds through a complicated […]

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Research report

Transparency is more than dollars and cents: An examination of informational needs for aid spending in Sierra Leone and Liberia

11/09/2017

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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Transparency in international aid is not just about fulfilling a requirement based on people’s right to access information, but also about making aid more effective. Transparency can help improve coordination and planning, enable accountability, and build trust. Accomplishing these goals can be a challenge when there are many partners involved in channeling funds through a […]

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Journal article

Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

13/07/2017

15 pages long

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Mainstreaming gender in WASH: lessons learned from Oxfam’s experience of Ebola

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Within Oxfam, we continue to question how we could have better integrated gender equality in the Ebola response, and how to improve our gender mainstreaming in future emergencies. Why did gender mainstreaming in the Ebola response prove particularly challenging? How did the Ebola response differ from previous emergencies? What did we need to know to […]

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Case study

Establishing Partnerships for Adaptive Programming in Sierra Leone

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 2010, the Freetown WASH Consortium – consisting of Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and GOAL – has worked to decrease mortality and morbidity stemming from preventable WASH-related causes in Sierra Leone’s capital. Now in its third phase, the DFID-funded consortium is undertaking a range of integrated activities to improve access […]

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