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Journal article

Introduction to Gender and Education

20/03/2014

12 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Discussion paper

Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices

01/03/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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In an era of land grabs and environmental uncertainty, improving smallholder productivity has become a higher priority on the agenda for poverty reduction and food security. Yet emerging evidence about the realities and social norms and desires of young people in developing countries indicates a reasonably widespread withdrawal from work on the land as an […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Community-Led Disaster Risk Reduction in Mongu, Zambia

26/02/2014

4 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Community-Led Disaster Risk Reduction’ project aims to increase resilience to climatic shocks among target groups in Mongu district in the Zambezi floodplain of western Zambia, through: Strengthening capacity of target communities to manage and respond to floods and droughts; and By encouraging livelihood diversification and asset growth. These full and summary reports document the findings […]

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Campaign report

Lift Lives for Good: Actions to tackle inequality and climate change

26/12/2013

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s vision is of a just world without poverty and suffering. If people are empowered to help themselves, and to help others in their communities, a chain reaction of change can be set in motion. Oxfam calls this lifting lives for good. To spread that change and make it last, political solutions are needed to […]

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Discussion paper

What Can Governments Do To Empower Poor People?

18/11/2013

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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Whether guaranteeing access to justice, promoting norms of equality and respect, ensuring access to quality essential services, or supporting citizens’ organization and voice, governments can play an important role in the empowerment of poor and excluded groups and individuals. Reviewing dozens of case studies, along with the latest conceptual work on empowerment, this paper shows that […]

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Journal article

Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

12/11/2013

16 pages long

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Gender, conflict, and peacebuilding: how conflict can catalyse positive change for women

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Although modern-day armed conflict is horrific for women, recent conflict and post-conflict periods have provided women with new platforms and opportunities to bring about change. The roles of women alter and expand during conflict as they participate in the struggles and take on more economic responsibilities and duties as heads of households. The trauma of […]

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Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

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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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Research report

Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results

23/05/2013

9 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Copperbelt Livelihoods Project, Zambia

08/10/2012

4 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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The Copperbelt Livelihoods Project targeted 1,000 small-scale farmers – of whom 60 per cent were women – living in ten villages in Kitwe district of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province. In addition to empowering women, the project sought to bolster household income and food security, and reduce vulnerability through the provision of agricultural inputs and increasing market […]

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