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Trends in UK NGOs: a research note

01/11/2003

6 pages long

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This paper reports on some of the generic findings arising from research being undertaken in the UK, South Africa, and Uganda into the ways in which the management tools currently promoted by official donors are passed down the aid chain, through UK NGOs, to civil society organisations in the South. The increasing competition for donor […]

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Journal article

Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

01/11/2003

10 pages long

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Women and citizenship in global teacher education: The Global-ITE project

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The Global-ITE (Initial Teacher Education) scheme is a three-year education project. It aims to enable trainee teachers in three teacher-education institutes in India, Kenya, and England to link local and global social issues to each other, and relate them to the school curriculum; and to promote a global perspective on citizenship education. Integral to our […]

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Briefing paper

Response to HM’s Government White Paper on Immigration, Citizenship and Asylum Secure Boarders, Safe Heaven

19/08/2003

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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In this White Paper the Government seriously attempts to address the nature of British society within the context of the realities of a twenty-first century world. This is a world shaped by modern technology, a globalising economy, and post-Cold War politics which are characterised by widening disparities in wealth, and increasing breakdown of security and […]

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Issue briefing

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

01/04/2003

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13 pages long

Languages: English

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This submission provides evidence from the Oxfam UK Poverty Programme (UKPP) and some of its partners working on poverty related issues; it illustrates Oxfam’s assertion that, while the UK Government is clearly committed to the relief of poverty and to finding solutions to social exclusion, (as indicated by its social policies and successive redistributive Budgets), […]

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Research report

Alive and Kicking: Women’s and men’s respones to poverty and globalisation in the UK

19/03/2003

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9 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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This paper explores what it means to be poor in a country generally percieved as wealthy, and how poverty itself is shaped by people’s gender identity and their relationships to a changing labour market. Some of the issues raised will also have a resonance in other contexts where paid employment has in the past been […]

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Journal article

Alive and kicking: women’s and men’s responses to poverty and globalisation in the UK

01/11/2002

10 pages long

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Alive and kicking: women’s and men’s responses to poverty and globalisation in the UK

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Globalisation is a process that affects people in the North as well as the South. Its negative effects are felt by people living in poverty in wealthier countries, as well as by those living in poorer ones. Drawing on experience from the work of Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, this article explores some aspects of how […]

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Research report

A Citizens’ Budget: Regenerating local democracy through community participation in public budgeting

01/07/2002

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

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The participatory budget (PB0 pioneered in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre and now adopted in at least 70 cities in Brazil represents a form of participatory democracy and local governance developed in the South from which much can be leardned in cities in the North. Community Pride, together with Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, developed […]

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Book

Men, Masculinities, and Poverty in the UK

01/01/2002

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153 pages long

Languages: English

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Rising suicides among young men; educational underachievement among boys; male detachment from the labour market – in the UK statistics such as these are regularly used to support the argument that men are ‘in crisis’. But the overall trends still show that women are the majority of those living in poverty (as they are internationally). […]

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Journal article

Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

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In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are […]

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Journal article

Stakeholder participation, gender, and codes of conduct in South Africa

01/11/2001

12 pages long

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Stakeholder participation, gender, and codes of conduct in South Africa

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Ethical trade is expanding rapidly in the UK. Following the foundation of the Ethical Trading Initiative many companies are adopting codes of conduct to cover employment conditions in their supply chains, based on a process of multi-stakeholder participation. Addressing gender issues in their implementation remains an important challenge for policy makers. This paper considers how […]

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