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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

Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

07/12/2021

17 pages long

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Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016

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In 2005, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) approved the aid effectiveness principles for improving the impact of Official Development Assistance (ODA). Donor countries such as Spain understood this agenda as an opportunity to promote gender equality in their development co-operation policy. However, gender equality almost disappeared as a priority in most of […]

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Research report

Are They Really Gender Equality Projects? An examination of donors’ gender-mainstreamed and gender-equality focused projects to assess the quality of gender-marked projects

05/02/2020

2 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, French

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There is an increasing focus on gender equality in development and humanitarian aid, including in donors’ self-reported contributions to gender equality. More policies and laws are calling for an increased focus on gender equality, and some nations are calling for feminist aid or feminist foreign policy, all positive steps to address one of the world’s […]

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Research report

Money Talks: Assessing funding flows to local and national actors in Uganda

21/10/2019

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite commitments made under the Grand Bargain and other international instruments to direct a greater share of humanitarian funding to local and national actors, there remains limited data (quantitative or qualitative) at the national level on the barriers local agencies face in accessing funds to respond to needs. Commissioned by Oxfam and the Comprehensive Refugee […]

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Research report

Tracing Swedish Development Flows: A study of the traceability of Swedish aid to Tanzania

31/07/2018

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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This report uses 2013–2015 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to trace Swedish aid to Tanzania to its end use. It finds that general budget support (GBS) accounted for much of Swedish aid in 2013 and 2015, but could not determine final expenditures using IATI data. In the absence of GBS, the authors could only […]

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Research report

Follow the Money: Using International Aid Transparency Initiative data to trace development aid flows to their end use

06/03/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This note gives guidance on using International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to trace aid flows from donor treasuries to their final end use. Traceability in IATI works by following the money as it flows from organization to organization through the development implementation chain. Provided that all organizations publish their information, it is possible to […]

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Research report

Tracing US Development Flows: A study of the traceability of US aid to Ghana

05/01/2018

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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More than 600 development organizations publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard. IATI provides up-to-date and reliable aid data to improve accountability, coordination and effectiveness. Aid flow traceability throughout the implementation chain is a key part of this. This research report shows that, using 2013-2015 IATI data, it is only possible to verify […]

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Briefing note

Making Aid To Jordan And Lebanon Work: Aid effectiveness in middle income countries affected by mass displacement

20/04/2017

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Jordan and Lebanon collectively make up less than one percent of the world’s economy, but host around 20 percent of the world’s refugees. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenges that this presents and acknowledged that humanitarian assistance must be supplemented with multi-year development support. This briefing note presents a preview of key findings […]

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Evaluation report

Humanitarian Quality Assurance – Nepal: Evaluation of Oxfam’s response to the Nepal 2015 earthquake

19/04/2017

3 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation report is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the humanitarian response thematic area using the application of Oxfam’s Humanitarian Indicator Toolkit (HIT). The report presents the findings from the evaluation carried out from November 2015-February 2016 of Oxfam’s humanitarian response to the Nepal 2015 earthquake. On […]

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Evaluation report

Humanitarian Quality Assurance – Sierra Leone: Evaluation of Oxfam’s humanitarian response to the West Africa Ebola crisis

20/02/2017

3 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation report is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2015/16, selected for review under the humanitarian response thematic area using the application of Oxfam’s Humanitarian Indicator Toolkit (HIT). The report presents the findings from the evaluation carried out in 2015 of Oxfam’s humanitarian response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. The […]

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