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Fostering Community Change in the West Bank

06/10/2014

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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In OPTI, WWS has been working in Gaza to strengthen civil society organizations (CSOs) to engage with power-holders to claim their rights, and has conducted a process of ‘action research’ in Gaza, West Bank, and Israel. Between April 2010 and September 2012, WWS co-funded (with the EU’s Non-State Actors funding stream) the ‘Fostering Community Change’ […]

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Building a Social Contract in South Sudan

06/10/2014

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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In South Sudan, WWS is working to strengthen civil society and to facilitate its engagement with those in positions of authority at all levels of governance, using the model of the social contract. The social contract model promotes constructive engagement between citizens and state; encourages both parties to respect each other’s rights and fulfil their […]

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Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

06/10/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reflects Oxfam’s experience of commissioning and managing action research in OPTI. Action research is a process of enquiry conducted by citizens and members of affected communities, rather than by trained researchers. Civil society in OPTI has limited space for operation. Oxfam therefore identified action research as a potentially effective model of community empowerment […]

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Making the Impossible Possible: An overview of governance programming in fragile contexts

06/10/2014

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13 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has been working in fragile contexts for many years, responding to humanitarian need and delivering services in places where the government is unable or unwilling to do so. Oxfam has recognised we must also address the issue of governance. Failures of governance are usually failures of power-holders in the state to enable citizens to […]

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Within and Without the State: Effective programming in fragile and conflict affected contexts: Workshop Communique, November 2012

12/12/2012

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2 pages long

Languages: English

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This ‘Communique’, from the Within and Without the State Workshop, captures the key messages from the workshop, identifies areas for development and suggests key ways to take these forward. It was developed by the participants themselves throughout the course of the workshop.

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Discussion paper

When Work Won’t Pay: In-work poverty in the UK

29/11/2011

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37 pages long

Languages: English

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For the past 30 years, the political consensus has held that work is the best route out of poverty. Yet more than four million of the 13.5 million people who live in poverty in the UK are working. There is clearly a contradiction between the consensus and the reality. This paper is a discussion of […]

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Within and Without the State: Effective programming in fragile and conflict affected contexts: Workshop Communique, November 2012

When Work Won’t Pay: In-work poverty in the UK