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Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women

03/03/2004

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s commitment to gender equality is rooted in twenty years of analysis and practical action in line with feminist goals. Our understanding of gender mainstreaming has been to focus on programmes whose immediate beneficiaries are women and their dependents, based on continuing evidence that women are the majority in the most economically needy groups in […]

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Journal article

Trade unions and NGOs: the need for cooperation

01/02/2004

15 pages long

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The challenges posed by economic globalisation make it imperative that civil society organisations break down the barriers that have traditionally divided them, in order to ensure that the rights of those who are marginalised or vulnerable are kept firmly on the international agenda. In particular, globalisation brings fresh impetus to the need to forge alliances […]

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Briefing paper

From ‘Donorship’ to Ownership?: Moving towards PRSP Round Two

01/01/2004

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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If poor countries are to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is vital to learn the lessons from the first round of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Despite opening some new space for dialogue, Oxfam and partners feel that PRSPs have been disappointing both in terms of process and content. Oxfam welcomes the review […]

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Book

Kenya: Promised Land?

01/01/2004

5 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Kenya, with its fertile soils, diverse climate, and enterprising people, should be a land of milk and honey. Tourists see safari parks and palm-fringed beaches, luxury hotels, and skyscraper offices; but the reality for many Kenyans is a life of desperate poverty and insecurity.

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Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

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Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

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Journal article

From clients to citizens: Asset-based Community Development as a strategy for community-driven development

01/11/2003

13 pages long

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In this paper, Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) is presented as an alternative to needs-based approaches to development. Following an overview of the principles and practice of ABCD, four major elements of ABCD are examined in light of the current literature on relevant research and practice. This involves exploring the theory and practice of appreciative inquiry; […]

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Journal article

New Forms of Citizenship: Democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

01/11/2003

9 pages long

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New Forms of Citizenship: Democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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In the context of macro-level political and economic changes, how do poor women and men living in Rio de Janeiro understand the idea of citizenship? Is it relevant to their daily lives? Because the poor have not reaped the rewards of macro-economic reforms and do not have confidence in the effectiveness of formal democratic participation, […]

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Journal article

Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

01/11/2003

11 pages long

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Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action

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Uganda has introduced affirmative action to ensure that women are represented on the various Councils which govern village affairs. This article asks what has changed as a result of women’s presence on the Councils. Both women and men felt that women had not significantly influenced Local Council planning and budget decisions. They felt this was […]

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Briefing paper

The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries

01/09/2003

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […]

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Briefing paper

Response to HM’s Government White Paper on Immigration, Citizenship and Asylum Secure Boarders, Safe Heaven

19/08/2003

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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In this White Paper the Government seriously attempts to address the nature of British society within the context of the realities of a twenty-first century world. This is a world shaped by modern technology, a globalising economy, and post-Cold War politics which are characterised by widening disparities in wealth, and increasing breakdown of security and […]

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