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Briefing note

Leave No One Behind: Ensure the needs of women and girls are prioritized at the Beira Conference 2019

31 May 2019

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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In the wake of cyclone Idai, more than half of the estimated 750,000 people requiring immediate help are women. Their vulnerabilities are both extensive and multi-sectoral, yet funding to address these needs falls far short. The Beira Conference in May/June 2019 provides a critical opportunity to invest in transformative change so that women and girls […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Burkina Faso: Impact evaluation of the ‘Resilience, Food security and Nutrition’ project

14 May 2018

4 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The Resilience, Food Security and Nutrition Project (Projet de Resilience, Securite Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle, PRSAN) was carried out in the North and Centre-North regions of Burkina Faso between 2013 and 2017 by Oxfam and Christian Aid, together with two implementing partners, the Alliance Technique d’Assistance au Developpement (ATAD) and the Office de Developpement des Eglises […]

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Evaluation report

Governance in Ethiopia: Impact evaluation of the African Climate Change and Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project

09 Feb 2018

2 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation of the project ‘African Climate Change and Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) in Ethiopia (phase 2)’, which ran from 1 November 2011 to 31 December 2016 as part of the Oxfam GB’s global CHASE Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA4) portfolio. The project aimed to enhance governance systems and climate […]

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Briefing paper

Uprooted by Climate Change: Responding to the growing risk of displacement

02 Nov 2017

6 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate change is already forcing people from their land and homes, and putting many more at risk of displacement in the future. Supercharged storms, more intense droughts, rising seas and other impacts of climate change all magnify existing vulnerabilities and the likelihood of displacement – disproportionately affecting low-income countries, women, children and Indigenous peoples. This […]

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Media briefing

A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and humanitarian disaster worse in East Africa

27 Apr 2017

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Nearly eleven million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are dangerously hungry and in need of humanitarian assistance. The worst drought-affected areas in Somalia are on the brink of famine. There is growing scientific analysis suggesting that the impacts of current and recent droughts in East Africa are likely to have been aggravated by climate […]

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Briefing paper

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

01 Dec 2014

6 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance is fundamental to a fair and effective global climate agreement. Too few countries have delivered on their obligations. As a result, the world’s poorest people have not benefitted from the necessary investment, and climate finance has been a major obstacle to achieving a global climate change agreement. This paper suggests a new approach […]

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Discussion paper

You Can’t Eat Electricity’ Why tackling inequality and hunger should be at the heart of low carbon development in South Africa

27 May 2013

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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How can low carbon development be pursued without making inequality and food insecurity worse? South Africa, like many middle income countries, faces the challenge of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the context of high levels of inequality and persistent hunger and malnutrition. High, and rising, prices force too many people to choose between […]

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Leave No One Behind: Ensure the needs of women and girls are prioritized at the Beira Conference 2019

Resilience in Burkina Faso: Impact evaluation of the ‘Resilience, Food security and Nutrition’ project

Governance in Ethiopia: Impact evaluation of the African Climate Change and Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project

Uprooted by Climate Change: Responding to the growing risk of displacement

A Climate in Crisis: How climate change is making drought and humanitarian disaster worse in East Africa

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

You Can’t Eat Electricity’ Why tackling inequality and hunger should be at the heart of low carbon development in South Africa