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Discussion paper

Disaster Risk Reduction Makes Development Sustainable

15/01/2014

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Governments and institutions must place risk reduction at the centre of the post-2015 development agenda, to ensure that disasters do not derail development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must contain: A disaster reduction target; Disaster risk reduction integrated across other targets; Commitment of countries to measure risk and account for disaster losses; and A specific […]

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Journal article

From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

12/11/2013

12 pages long

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From spoils to weapons: framing wartime sexual violence

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The way an issue is ‘framed’ (viewed and understood) has a profound effect on whether it is viewed as a priority for action by international organisations, states, and civil society. Wartime sexual violence used to be framed as a ‘women’s issue’, but since the issue gained widespread notoriety in the mid-1990s, it has shifted to being understood as a […]

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Issue briefing

Growing disruption: Climate change, food, and the fight against hunger

23/09/2013

6 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing paper explores how the failure to tackle climate change threatens all aspects of food security – availability, access, utilisation, and stability. The changing climate is already jeopardising gains in the fight against hunger, and it looks set to worsen. It threatens the production and distribution of food. It threatens people’s ability to access […]

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Briefing note

Keeping the Lifeline Open: UK remittances and markets in Somalia

09/09/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Somali migrants around the world send approximately $1.3bn each year to friends and families at home – more than total humanitarian aid to Somalia. Of these remittances, more than £100m million comes from the United Kingdom. This briefing shows how banks and regulators are in danger of inadvertently undermining this lifeline and driving it underground, […]

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Briefing paper

Keeping the Lifeline Open: Remittances and markets in Somalia

31/07/2013

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Each year, Somali migrants around the world send approximately $1.3bn to Somalia in an expression of solidarity, faith, patriotism, and generosity. These flows represent a significant share of Somalia’s economy and help to reduce Somalia’s reliance on assistance from foreign governments and international organizations. Continued support from the Somali diaspora is essential for Somalia to […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

A Quick Guide to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning in Fragile Contexts

19/07/2013

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) are part of everyday programme management and are critical to the success of all Oxfam’s programmes, including those operating in fragile contexts. Without an effective MEAL system we would be unable to: track progress make adjustments discover unplanned effects of programmes judge the impact that we have made on […]

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Technical briefing

Technical Guidelines on Water Trucking in Drought Emergencies

04/01/2013

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Emergency water trucking to drought-affected populations, particularly in the Horn of Africa, has become cyclical intervention as rainfall patterns in these areas has become increasingly unpredictable. In addition to being expensive and unsustainable, cyclical water trucking is coming under increased scrutiny as it increasingly appears to have negative impacts on pastoralist livelihoods, existing coping mechanisms […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Somalia Drought Response 2011/12

08/10/2012

3 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of an effectiveness review carried out on Oxfam’s response to the 2010/11 drought-related food crisis in Somalia, undertaken through the application of Oxfam’s Humanitarian Indicator Tool. For a slow onset crisis, where there was an established early-warning system, Oxfam was slow to react. Having scaled-up its internal capacity, the programme […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Cholera Outbreak Guidelines: Preparedness, prevention and control

13/08/2012

3 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This practical field guide brings together lessons learned from Oxfam’s past interventions in the prevention and control of cholera, and other related guidance. The aim is to provide a quick, step-by-step guide to inform cholera outbreak interventions and ensure public health programmes that are rapid, community-based, well-tailored, and gender and diversity aware. They will enable […]

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Issue briefing

You Have Been Warned: One year on from UN declaration of famine, Somalia faces worsening food crisis

17/07/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2011 the world waited for the UN to declare famine before providing assistance on the level needed to save lives in Somalia – this delayed response wasted lives and money. We are now seeing warnings of Somalia slipping back into crisis and cannot afford to make the same mistake again – governments and agencies […]

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