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Research report

Financing for Development in the Philippines

08/09/2021

1 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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As the Philippines approaches upper-middle-income status, it continues to face the challenge of fighting poverty and economic and gender inequalities, while also confronting COVID-19. Public debt is set to dramatically increase, and donors are likely to ramp up funding to help foster recovery from the pandemic. Transparency and accountability are essential to guarantee efficient and […]

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Briefing note

Increasing Investments in Care in the IDA20 Replenishment

19/07/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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IDA20 offers an important opportunity to tackle the rising gender inequality tied to the unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women, girls, and men. IDA is a crucial source of concessional finance that lower-income countries depend on and is one of the biggest providers of core support for human development and public services. Against […]

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Briefing paper

Derecho a Vivir Sin Bloqueo: Impactos de las sanciones de Estados Unidos en la población cubana y la vida de las mujeres

25/05/2021

4 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Derecho a vivir sin bloqueo… revela impactos en la población cubana de casi seis décadas de sanciones puestas en vigor por sucesivos Gobiernos estadounidenses. Se centra sobre todo en la dimensión humana del diferendo, por lo que recoge testimonios sobre el significado del bloqueo en la cotidianidad de quienes viven en Cuba, fundamentalmente de mujeres, […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Foreign Aid 101: A quick and easy guide to understanding US foreign aid

22/03/2021

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Poverty is no accident. It’s not a natural phenomenon like gravity. It has not always been with us, and given global wealth, it should not be with us today. Yet, it persists for hundreds of millions of people around the world, in high- and low-income countries alike. Why? Simply put, people in poverty have the […]

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Journal article

Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Intersectionality and collective action: visioning a Feminist Green New Deal in the US

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In the wake of the introduction of the Resolution for a Green New Deal to the US House of Representatives in 2019, feminist climate justice activists and organisers initiated and cultivated the Feminist Coalition for a Green New Deal. The Coalition advances an intersectional feminist analysis as part of the national conversation about the Green […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

21/10/2020

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a power, made up of many, many, stories, not always written, made up of online content, offline conversations. They are not something that happens over there, they […]

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Research report

Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is -and Is Not- Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States

29/07/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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The study reveals findings from a rapid poll exploring the gendered and racial impacts of COVID-19 on unpaid care work, which was part of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign. The report demonstrates how COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis of care in the United States, with a particular workload being taken on by women as […]

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Research report

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity? Political economy analysis

28/04/2020

2 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Research by PAPDA (the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative Development) and Oxfam found that peanut value chain actors in Haiti face a number of serious constraints, including nonexistence of state support; weak organization; use of traditional production methods; and lack of access to irrigation and inputs, including herbicides to control aflatoxin, all in a context […]

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Media briefing

The G7’s Deadly Sins: How the G7 is fuelling the inequality crisis

22/08/2019

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

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President Macron has promised to make the fight against inequality a priority at this year’s G7 Summit in France. G7 leaders regularly pay lip service to the dangers of extreme inequality, yet they are actively fuelling inequality at home and across the globe. In this briefing, Oxfam sets out the seven key issues the G7 […]

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Research report

USAID’s AVANSE Project in Haiti: An assessment of its conformity with aid effectiveness principles

13/03/2019

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2013, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched Appui à la Valorisation du Potentiel Agricole du Nord, pour la Sécurité Économique et Environnementale—Aid to Realize the Agricultural Potential of the North, for Economic and Environmental Security, or AVANSE—in northern Haiti. This $87 million project, also known as Feed the Future North, runs through […]

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