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Issue briefing

Unheard Water Stories from Asia, Africa and MENA: Elevating local voices for water security in a climate insecure world

20/11/2024

3 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper shares stories from six countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Somalia, Syria, and Iraq—highlighting the challenges communities face in accessing water. It seeks to bring forward the unique perspectives of communities from diverse backgrounds, each experiencing water crises in distinct ways. While climate change intensifies their crises, many communities also face marginalization due to exclusionary water […]

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Discussion paper

Understanding electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of civil society in improving performance, governance, and accountability

19/08/2024

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a primer on the performance of electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting on the current landscape of power sector and utility challenges, the reforms undertaken to address performance failures, opportunities for a “utility of the future” amid the global energy transition, governance frameworks available to assess performance (like the infrastructure regulatory system […]

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Discussion paper

The Gendered Energy Crisis: Prospects for an eco-feminist Just Energy Transition in South Africa

16/08/2024

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is focused on identifying the ongoing challenges at Eskom, the South African power utility, thus shedding light on democratic processes and human rights considerations. It adopts a feminist lens in its analysis of the electricity crisis, exploring potential feminist approaches to restructuring the existing electricity grid infrastructure. This includes analyzing the integration of […]

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Discussion paper

Electricity Utility Governance in Kenya: A comprehensive report

23/07/2024

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a comprehensive account of the status of the electricity utility in Kenya. In doing so it analyzes the gaps in Kenya’s electricity governance and suggests ways these gaps can be addressed especially through civil society engagement. While Kenya has seen some notable successes in advancing its energy sector – in particular in […]

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Research report

Increasing Civil Society Ownership of National Climate Plans: Lessons drawn from Senegal’s NDC experience

15/04/2024

2 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The issue of civil society participation in the processes of developing, implementing, and monitoring national climate plans is crucial to ensuring that these ambitions are both acceptable to the populations and, beyond that, that they align with a trajectory of sustainable development beneficial to all actors in Senegalese society. This case study aims to analyze […]

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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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Journal article

Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

10/12/2020

18 pages long

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Gender in the modernisation of waste management: key lessons from fieldwork in Bhutan, Mongolia, and Nepal

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The waste sector is a significant and growing source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Most developing countries are minor contributors to global GHG, and produce limited emissions from municipal solid waste. However, as poor countries become integrated into global circuits of production and consumption, their contributions to global GHG emissions are likely to increase […]

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Journal article

Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

10/12/2020

14 pages long

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Rural women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation in Niger: lessons from Dimitra Clubs

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The relative lack of women’s participation in energy-related development projects around the world to transform agricultural productivity has been a source of significant concern globally. Out of 181 countries, Niger holds the current position for being the second most vulnerable to climate change. Despite the emphasis on women’s participation in solar-powered irrigation initiatives in Niger […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

15/09/2020

3 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s Influencing for Impact Guide is designed for civil society organizations, Oxfam teams and partners, activists and campaigners. It aims to support them to develop and deliver effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis: strategies with impact to help shift unequal and unjust power relations, […]

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Media briefing

The Hunger Virus: How COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world

09/07/2020

3 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself. The pandemic is the final straw for millions of […]

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