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Briefing note

Making Aid To Jordan And Lebanon Work: Aid effectiveness in middle income countries affected by mass displacement

20/04/2017

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Jordan and Lebanon collectively make up less than one percent of the world’s economy, but host around 20 percent of the world’s refugees. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenges that this presents and acknowledged that humanitarian assistance must be supplemented with multi-year development support. This briefing note presents a preview of key findings […]

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Briefing paper

Private-finance Blending for Development: Risks and opportunities

13/02/2017

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Aid donors increasingly seek to inject private-sector resources into development by ‘blending’ official development assistance (ODA) with private finance. There is little evidence of the development impact, and projects often do not align with country ownership, transparency and accountability. It is not always clear whether ODA subsidies are necessary. Blending could support pro-poor projects, such […]

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Research report

Blended Finance: What it is, how it works and how it is used

13/02/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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In recent years, ‘blending’ has become a common development finance term. The practice combines official development assistance with other private or public resources, in order to ‘leverage’ additional funds from other actors. There is some confusion about its meaning, how it works, and how it fosters development, as well as a significant lack of project […]

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Discussion paper

Raising the Bar: Rethinking the role of business in the Sustainable Development Goals

13/02/2017

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development gives business a significant role to play in efforts to achieve the SDGs, based on its ability to invest and innovate. However, for companies to truly contribute, they must move beyond current forms of engagement, abandon a narrow focus on the SDGs as an opportunity to increase corporate profits […]

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Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016: Lifting the lid on progress towards the $100 billion commitment

03/11/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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In the global push to tackle climate change, international climate finance is essential. Climate finance, both public and private, helps developing countries adapt to climate extremes and develop in a low carbon way. This briefing examines reported international public climate finance flows, taking into account the funding commitments of developed countries under the United Nations […]

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Case study

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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Briefing paper

Owning the Outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable

03/10/2016

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past six years, the International Finance Corporation has channelled over $50bn to the financial sector, and its long-term investments in financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds have dramatically risen by 45 percent over that same period. However, the evidence continues to grow that this private sector arm of the […]

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Annual report

Sida Humanitarian Partnership Agreement Annual Report 2015-16

27/09/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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In June 2014, Oxfam signed a three-year framework agreement with Sida (1 April 2014-31 March 2017) – the Humanitarian Partnership Agreement (HPA). This brings together all the humanitarian funding that Oxfam receives within one contract and provides the ability to access three years of funding. The overall goal of Oxfam’s HPA is that ‘fewer women, […]

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Briefing paper

Accountability and Ownership: The role of aid in a post-2015 world

14/09/2016

3 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian

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In September 2015, world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)–an ambitious new agenda to eliminate poverty and achieve a sustainable world by 2030. The role of aid in achieving the SDGs, in which national accountability and ownership are paramount, should not be underestimated. As the world marks one year since the signing of the […]

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