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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 […] View resource Case study From Grove to Market: Oxfam’s multi-stakeholder network approach in the West Bank 27/10/2016 1 documents 10 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Development methods Economic empowerment Economic growth Enterprise development Fair trade Food production Investment Livelihoods Olive production Smallholder agriculture Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Development methods Economic empowerment Economic growth Enterprise development Food production Food security Inequality M&E Monitoring and evaluation Programme management Research methods Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview 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. […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Capacity building Cash transfers Civil society Economic empowerment Livelihoods Refugees and IDPs Overview 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 […] View resource Evaluation report Citizen Voice in Afghanistan: Evaluation of National Solidarity Programme III 21/09/2016 3 documents 63 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Advocacy Aid effectiveness Campaigning Capacity building Citizen voice Civil society Economic empowerment Gender mainstreaming Good Governance Local Government M&E Monitoring and evaluation Policy Influence World Bank and IMF Overview 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. […] View resource Case study Rompre les barrières du scepticisme pour un partenariat 31/05/2016 2 documents 9 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development methods Economic empowerment Food production Food security Livelihoods Partnerships Programme management Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Economic empowerment Gender equality Gender justice Participation Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Decent work Discrimination Economic empowerment Education Gender equality Gender justice Health care Political capture Public spending Social care Taxation Unpaid care Overview 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 […] View resource Case study SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Upgrading the water system in Namorputh, Turkana 01/04/2016 1 documents 2 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Capacity building Civil society Community building Development methods Economic empowerment Health promotion Humanitarian practice Livelihoods Maternal and child health MDGs Millenium Development Goals Participation Resource scarcity Sustainability Sustainable development WASH Water and sanitation WEL Women's Economic Leadership Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Capacity building Community building Development methods Economic empowerment Health promotion Humanitarian practice Livelihoods Local Government Maternal and child health MDGs Millenium Development Goals Natural resources Participation Resource scarcity Sustainability Sustainable development WASH Water and sanitation WEL Women's Economic Leadership Overview 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 […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 10 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know