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Research report

Transforming Care After Conflict: How gendered care relations are being redefined in northern Uganda

07/12/2017

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Northern Uganda has suffered from chronic food shortages and high levels of poverty, political insecurity and adverse environmental conditions. Women can be particularly disadvantaged, constrained by a lack of access to and control over resources, patriarchal exploitation, and harmful social norms. Oxfam implemented a series of interventions in Karamoja to support women’s livelihoods and promote […]

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Journal article

Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

09/11/2017

16 pages long

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Artisanal gold mining: both a woman’s and a man’s world. A Uganda case study

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This article is based on ActionAid research exploring the livelihoods of women artisanal miners in the Kampala Camp in Kiltumbi Sub County, Mubende District in Uganda. It shows the different ways in which mining shapes women’s lives and gender relations. The article focuses on women’s strategies in response to their situation. ActionAid has supported and […]

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Research report

Measuring Impact: A Meta-Analysis of Oxfam’s Livelihoods Effectiveness Reviews

08/11/2017

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents the results of a meta-analysis examining the overall impact of 23 livelihoods projects evaluated as part of Oxfam GB’s Effectiveness Reviews between 2011 and 2016. Results show a statistically significant, positive impact on the welfare of participants, measured by household consumption and wealth. Analysis indicates an increase in household consumption of approximately […]

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Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase II Interim Report

12/09/2017

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: French

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This report examines the second phase of Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (We-Care) programme. The first phase focused on building evidence for influencing policy change on women’s heavy and unequal unpaid care work in six countries. The second phase of the programme seeks to continue deepening the evidence base; strengthen influencing capacity on unpaid […]

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Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care): Overview 2017

30/08/2017

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative aims to make unpaid care work visible as critical to social and economic development, while addressing heavy and unequal care work as a driver of poverty and gender inequality. This 2017 overview describes how WE-Care incorporates a range of stakeholders, ensuring that community groups, governments, development practitioners and the private sector work […]

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Evaluation report

Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance: Phase 2 Synthesis Evaluation, final report

23/06/2017

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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ACCRA, which began implementing its programme in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia in 2009, works with national and local governments and civil society groups in the countries where its programmes are implemented to tackle complex climate change issues and work towards increasing community adaptive capacities, transforming governance systems and achieving climate justice. This evaluation of phase […]

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Case study

Innovation in the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA): Perspectives from on-the-ground experiences

04/05/2017

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Innovation involves applying information, imagination and initiative to get greater or different value from resources, and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful processes or products. These case studies showcase some of the innovative ideas that are being implemented by Oxfam in six countries: Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, […]

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Briefing paper

Starting with People: A human economy approach to inclusive growth in Africa

02/05/2017

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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High levels of inequality across Africa have prevented much of the benefits of recent growth from reaching the continent’s poorest people. To combat inequality in Africa, political and business leaders have to shape a profoundly different type of economy. It must start with the needs of Africa’s women and young people for good quality sustainable […]

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Research report

The Impact of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions on People Affected by Humanitarian Emergencies: A systematic review

16/03/2017

3 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

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This systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme and carried out by a team from the EPPI-Centre, University College London (UCL), draws together primary research on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes for people affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It investigates both the process of implementing MHPSS programmes […]

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Briefing paper

An Economy that Works for Women: Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world

02/03/2017

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]

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