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Influencing Financial Inclusion in Programmes: Overcoming barriers to agriculture and enterprise finance

27/10/2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Barriers to agriculture and enterprise finance are the result of the risks that service providers and investors usually perceive when supporting smallholder farmers, particularly women. Some of Oxfam’s programmes have successfully increased access to financial and other services through building the capacity of communities and engaging with a network of stakeholders. By successfully influencing the […]

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From Grove to Market: Oxfam’s multi-stakeholder network approach in the West Bank

27/10/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam and partners have been working since 2005 to develop and overcome challenges facing the West Bank’s olive oil sector, focusing on its export potential through quality improvements, organic production and attractiveness to the Fair Trade market. Oxfam has engaged many stakeholders in this process and has been instrumental in developing a collective vision for […]

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Case study

Understanding Networks: The application of Social Network Analysis methodology in the South Caucasus context

27/10/2016

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has had many experiences of building networks to leverage change for people living in poverty worldwide, and aims to learn from these about what makes such alliances more or less effective. This case study focuses on two networks developed in the South Caucasus region which were recently analysed using Social Network Analysis (SNA) methodology. […]

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Case study

Strengthening Livelihoods in Jordan: The Jordan Local Economic Empowerment and Development Consortium (JOLEED)

27/10/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has been working in Jordan on strengthening civil society since the early 90s. In 2013, Oxfam also started providing humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan. In 2013, Oxfam and four other agencies came together to create an informal working group called Jordan Local Economic Empowerment and Development Consortium (JOLEED) with the aim of […]

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Evaluation report

Citizen Voice in Afghanistan: Evaluation of National Solidarity Programme III

21/09/2016

3 documents

63 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15, randomly selected for review under the citizen voice thematic area. This report documents the findings of a qualitative impact evaluation, carried out in December 2014. The evaluation used process tracing to assess the effectiveness of the ‘National Solidarity Programme III’ in Afghanistan. […]

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Case study

Rompre les barrières du scepticisme pour un partenariat

31/05/2016

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Notre ambition était de parvenir à regrouper en réseau des organisations communautaires de base (ou CBO), travaillant dans le secteur rizicole en vue de favoriser une meilleure implication des acteurs et leur donner plus de poids et de voix, à travers le programme PINORD (Programme d’appui aux Initiatives du Nord). Mais pourquoi ce modèle de […]

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Research report

Women’s Participation and Leadership in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Moving from individual to collective change

25/04/2016

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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This report sets out the findings of a seven-month qualitative study commissioned by Oxfam and conducted in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by researchers from the American University of Beirut. The aim of the study was to explore the role customary institutions play in maintaining gender inequality, and how changes in individual […]

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Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11/04/2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

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Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Upgrading the water system in Namorputh, Turkana

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In the past, residents of Namorputh in Turkana often spent over three hours a day queuing for water, or collected unsafe river water instead. However, following work by Practical Action to upgrade and extend the water system, villagers can now access clean, adequate water at any time. Claire Arunye is using the time she used […]

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Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: The women of Lokichar, Turkana, gain access to clean, reliable water

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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The women of Nakalale Naduat-Lokichar village used to face long journeys to collect water from ‘scoop holes’ in riverbeds. They could carry just enough back with them for drinking and watering their goats, and had little time to look for food or work. Under the SWIFT programme, Oxfam worked with the women to install a […]

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