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Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance in West Africa: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s regions worst hit by the climate crisis

27/09/2022

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In West Africa/Sahel, countries and their communities are experiencing the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Elsewhere, Paris Agreement climate finance commitments are set to prioritise the countries that are most impacted by climate change. However, new research by Oxfam shows that, despite West Africa/Sahel being one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions, the international […]

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Briefing paper

Faith is Not Enough: Ensuring that aid donor-private sector partnerships contribute to sustainable development

08/07/2019

3 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Aid donors increasingly assume uncritically that private-sector partnerships are crucial for global development. In the right context and with the right regulatory frameworks in place, the private sector can generate growth that reduces poverty and economic and gender inequality. However, donor engagement with for-profit entities entails important inherent risks. Donors must institute checks and balances […]

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Journal article

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

09/11/2016

20 pages long

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How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

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New Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) research suggests that effective donor programming on gender in fragile contexts requires doing more and doing things differently. A critical step is to close financing gaps in key sectors through both dedicated funding and gender mainstreaming. Donors can also do more to improve quality of programming, notably […]

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Research report

Ownership in Practice: Information – Let countries know what donors are doing

04/06/2010

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam America has been recommending reforms to US foreign aid practice to make it more responsive to and supportive of countries’ own development priorities. A first step in this direction is improving the information the US providesrecipient countries on its foreign aid. In particular, Oxfam is calling for the US to provide countries with information that is more […]

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Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

Climate Finance in West Africa: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s regions worst hit by the climate crisis

Faith is Not Enough: Ensuring that aid donor-private sector partnerships contribute to sustainable development

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

Ownership in Practice: Information – Let countries know what donors are doing