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Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

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Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

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Rebuilding shattered lives

01/02/1994

3 pages long

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There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

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Some problems women are facing

01/02/1994

2 pages long

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There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

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Emergency food distribution in Turkana

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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A food distribution programme in Turkana, Kenya, is showing that principles applied in development work can be equally well applied during a relief operation. The principles in this case are, firstly, active involvement of women, who provide food for their families. Women are elected as relief committee elders alongside men. Secondly, the different social roles […]

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Making good policy into good practice

01/02/1994

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Men carried out Mozambique’s drought relief effort almost exclusively and NGOs like Oxfam should be wary of designing policies based solely on what they see and hear in emergency situations. Women in Mozambique are more affected than men, but are silent and invisible, when they should be central to relief policies. Greet shows why women’s […]

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A disaster-preparedness workshop in Pakistan

01/02/1994

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A disaster-preparedness workshop in Pakistan

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Following the 1992 floods in Pakistan, Oxfam Pakistan and the NGO PATTAN held a disaster preparedness workshop. A common theme of their recommendations is attention to women, summarised as follows. NGOs should recruit female staff to work specifically on gender issues, who can then talk to women in an emergency or development context. Distribution of […]

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Testimonies from Zaire

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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Since autumn 1992 harassment of people of Kasaian origin in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in southern Zaire has resulted in massive displacement. More than 150fl00 people have fled north into East and West Kasai, using whatever transport they could find. In October 1992 a Comite de Co-ordination des Refoules (CCR) was set up by local churches, […]

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Emergencies and development

01/02/1994

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This article contains a brief history of international NGOs, from providers of reactive emergency response to important players in strategic, planned, sustainable development. Through varied forms of advocacy and feminism, to a rights-based approach centred on empowerment, Eade and Williams show how poor people are increasingly driving their own development (and relief work). NGOs’ values […]

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Understanding the disaster-development continuum

01/02/1994

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Understanding the disaster-development continuum

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Disasters are not simply ‘natural’ but shaped by human choices. These choices make some people – invariably women – more physically, socially and psychologically vulnerable than others. Anderson’s article examines how disaster relief relates to long term development; how to work with poor people to move from short-term dependency to self-sufficiency. She shows why gender […]

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The effects of drought on the condition of women

01/02/1994

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The effects of drought on the condition of women

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Rural women play a central role in their country’s economy and households. Therefore, drought profoundly interrupts their work and has far-reaching impacts in five areas. Economically, drought affects food, trade, labour and migration. Environmentally, finding alternatives to crops has direct and indirect consequences for land use. Socially, Tichagwa looks at migration to urban areas; female […]

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