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Evaluation report

Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review – Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future

10/03/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality. Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Journal article

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

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The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

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Journal article

Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

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The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

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Research report

The Crisis of Low Wages: Who earns less than $17 an hour in the U.S. in 2024?

09/07/2024

3 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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According to new data from Oxfam, there are more than 39 million low wage workers in the United States, defined here as any worker earning less than $17 an hour. This translates to 23 percent of the US workforce, or nearly one in four workers in the US. This new research includes a full demographic […]

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Discussion paper

Care as Essential Infrastructure: Definitions of and debates on care infrastructure from Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, the United States, and Zimbabwe

10/06/2024

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Drawing on six case studies (Kenya, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, the United States, and Zimbabwe), this paper explores the definitions, debates, and demands related to the concept of care infrastructure. The paper finds the following components of care infrastructure across the case studies: care-supporting physical infrastructure, knowledge production, community networks, national care frameworks and public […]

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Research report

Unseen Work, Unmet Needs: Exploring the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity in unpaid care labor and paid labor in the U.S.

25/04/2024

2 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam America and Prosperity Now have embarked on a comprehensive joint research project to explore the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid labor in the US, particularly for women of color, who are disproportionately affected by the dual impact of paid work and unpaid care responsibilities. This report adopts an intersectional lens to delve into […]

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Journal article

Forever fields: studying knowledge practices in the global North: a view from the global South

12/12/2023

17 pages long

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Forever fields: studying knowledge practices in the global North: a view from the global South

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While there is a multitude of academic work with respect to cross-border collaborations between South Asian countries and the US, almost all of it is produced by scholars located in US universities, either as tenured faculty or as doctoral students. Much of this work is predicated upon the access these scholars have to stakeholders in […]

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Research report

US Care Policy Scorecard: Assessing federal unpaid and underpaid care policies in the US

19/07/2023

6 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The US Care Policy Scorecard seeks to assess the US care policy environment at the federal level by adapting and implementing the Care Policy Scorecard Framework and Tool in the US context. The US Scorecard looks at 30 federal policy indicators related to both unpaid care and underpaid care work (UUCW). Each policy indicator is […]

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Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

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