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Agencies must now provide evidence of the impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose problems. How can we assess the difference that intervention makes? […] View resource Research report Survey on the livelihoods of Syrian refugees in Lebanon 21/11/2013 1 documents 46 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Cash transfers Conflict Food security Humanitarian practice Livelihoods Protection Refugees and IDPs Research methods Overview There are an estimated one million refugees from Syria living in Lebanon, with more arriving every day. As the situation in Syria continues to deteriorate, it is increasingly likely that many will remain in Lebanon for many months, if not years, to come. The Beirut Research and Innovation Center was commissioned by Oxfam to survey […] View resource Research report Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses 03/11/2013 2 documents 28 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Aid effectiveness Community building Corporate responsibility Debt relief Development methods Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Discrimination DRR Education financing Fair trade Floods Food production Food security Health systems Humanitarian Humanitarian practice Inequality Livelihoods M&E Maternal and child health Monitoring and evaluation Participation Programme management Protection Research methods Sustainable livelihoods approach Water and sanitation Welfare Wellbeing Overview This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […] View resource Briefing paper Held to Account: Putting democratic governance at the heart of development finance 31/10/2013 6 documents 24 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Aid effectiveness Civil society Development methods Economic empowerment Inequality Local Government Participation Overview Unaccountable government is a substantial obstacle to development. It prevents people from exercising their rights and accessing health care, education and the other essential services they need in order to work their way out of poverty. At best, poor governance leads to mismanagement of public funds; at worst to outright corruption. The experiences of Sierra […] View resource Case study A Mushrooming business: How Oxfam is facilitating development of the horticulture sector while improving the status of women in Rwanda 25/09/2013 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Aid effectiveness Development methods Gender mainstreaming Gender training Gender-based violence Livelihoods Smallholder agriculture Sustainable livelihoods approach WEL Wellbeing Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview This case study shares the work of Oxfam’s Livelihood programme, Women’s Economic Leadership, in the horticulture sector in Rwanda. It shows that with the right business opportunities and training, women working in rural agriculture can be savvy business people, innovators, breadwinners, and community leaders. View resource Case study Taking the long view: Transforming the way community water management is viewed and conducted in northern Kenya 25/09/2013 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Debt relief Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Early warning system Fair trade Floods Food prices Food production Food reserves Food security Health promotion Health systems Livelihoods Programme management WASH Water and sanitation Wellbeing Overview For several years, Oxfam has been working with communities in Turkana and Wajir, Kenya, building the capacity of local water committees to better manage their water supplies and hold higher authorities to account. Instead of short incentive-based workshops with little follow-up, Oxfam has taken a longer-term approach by developing a toolkit to provide regular training […] View resource Evaluation report Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya 01/08/2013 1 documents 33 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Discrimination Fair trade Food security Gender mainstreaming Gender training Gender-based violence Girls' education Housing Investment Labour standards Livelihoods Maternal and child health Programme management Protection Research methods Sustainable livelihoods approach Welfare Wellbeing Women farmers Overview Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […] View resource Discussion paper Russia as a Humanitarian Aid Donor 15/07/2013 2 documents 30 pages long Languages: English, Russian Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Civil society Development methods Humanitarian practice Overview This paper addresses the role of Russia as a humanitarian aid donor in the context of the increasing participation in international aid of so-called ‘new’, ‘emerging’ (or ‘re-emerging’), or ‘non-traditional’ donors. In recent years Russia has made a number of international aid commitments, for example within the G8, marking its re-emergence as an international donor […] View resource Discussion paper The post-Hyogo Framework: What’s next for disaster risk reduction? 03/06/2013 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Climate finance Development methods Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR MDGs Millenium Development Goals Overview The Post-Hyogo Framework, the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, and a new climate agreement are all expected in 2015. Thus, the next three years offer an outstanding opportunity to provide a crucial step change in disaster risk reduction (DRR) through the development of new international instruments. In this paper, Oxfam calls for equality and […] View resource Case study Community based disaster risk reduction in Sri Lanka: A compendium of good practices 01/06/2013 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Aid effectiveness Cash transfers Community building Conflict Debt relief Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Enterprise development Finance Floods Food prices Food production Food reserves Food security Labour standards Land rights Livelihoods Protection Reconstruction Sustainable livelihoods approach Water and sanitation WEL Wellbeing Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview The compendium presents good practices of the community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach implemented under a Disaster Preparedness project in the North and East of Sri Lanka, supported by the Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO). Learning drawn from the project can be replicated and built into future interventions. The compendium also highlights the post-conflict scenario, […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 … Page 14 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know