Adaptation Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Climate Plans for the People: Civil society and community participation in national action plans on climate change

25/03/2024

5 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In 2024, all countries will be updating and submitting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These national climate plans outline commitments towards tackling climate change. These plans impact all walks of life and must therefore be inclusive of the whole of society. By examining recent practices across 11 countries, Oxfam found that NDCs were not sufficiently […]

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Briefing paper

Climate finance in Asia: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions

01/11/2022

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards including extreme temperatures, flooding, droughts, cyclones, and sea level rise. The most vulnerable communities need financial support to help adapt to the climate crisis – they cannot do so alone. Developed countries have promised $100 bn in climate finance to developing countries every year until 2025. This promise […]

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Briefing note

Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019–2020

19/10/2022

5 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports claim that the climate finance they provided and mobilized reached $83.3bn in 2020, but Oxfam estimates the real value was only around a third of […]

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Journal article

Strengthening climate resilience and women’s networks: Brazilian inspiration from agroecology

10/12/2020

19 pages long

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Strengthening climate resilience and women’s networks: Brazilian inspiration from agroecology

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Women can face higher risks and more significant burdens from the impacts of climate change in situations of poverty than men, exacerbating existing disparities in gender roles, responsibilities, perceptions, and skewed power relations that tend to disadvantage women. Mitigation and adaptation measures are essential not only to increase community resilience to climate change but also […]

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Journal article

Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Can we turn the tide? Confronting gender inequality in climate policy

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Emerging global crises such as climate change, massive migrations, pandemics, and environmental degradation are posing serious risks to humanity, threatening ecosystems and rural livelihoods across the globe. The poor, and especially the most marginalised among the poor, are disproportionately affected. Climate change in particular is expected to exacerbate pre-existing social inequalities, including gender inequalities. Therefore, […]

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Evaluation report

Gender Equality and Resilient Development: Evidence from Oxfam’s Resilient Development Portfolio

05/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support increased gender equality so that women and girls and other marginalised groups can be involved in shaping a more resilient future. It highlights how such efforts have improved resilient development outcomes for women and their communities, recognising that much work is still to […]

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Discussion paper

An Ecological Approach to Partnership

01/11/2015

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This learning paper explores insights and questions on partnerships from the perspective of the Oxfam Australia (OAU)-led program in South Africa. It examines four issues: power, contestation, trust and adaptive practice. It also presents an emergent partnership model drawing on this learning.

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Drought Management Initiative: Livestock Component, Kenya

06/12/2013

4 documents

63 pages long

Languages: English

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Kenya’s ‘Turkana-Pokot Drought Management Initiative (DMI)’ was a three-year programme implemented by a consortium of NGOs which aimed to mitigate the effects of climatic shocks among pastoralist communities in north-western Kenya. Oxfam GB was responsible for implementing the livestock component of this programme in three of the most remote pastoralist communities in the northern part […]

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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Climate Change Adaptation and Advocacy Project, Nepal

01/04/2013

4 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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The ‘Climate Change Adaptation and Advocacy’ project aims to increase climate change resilience among target groups in the Dadeldhura district of western Nepal, through the creation of livelihood options and the incorporation of climate change adaptation practices in district- and national-level plans and programmes. These full and summary reports document the findings of a quasi-experimental […]

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Discussion paper

Adaptation to Climate Change in India : A study of Union budgets

05/04/2010

1 documents

86 pages long

Languages: English

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The implications of climate change are affecting many regions in the world; India is particularly vulnerable to the damaging, adverse effects of greenhouse emissions. This working paper is a collaborative study produced by Oxfam India and the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (a policy research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi). It is […]

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