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Discussion paper

Walking the Talk: Assessing companies’ progress from SDG rhetoric to action

24/09/2018

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Three years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reliable information on how companies are working to contribute to the SDGs remains sparse. This paper uses five general themes (prioritization; integration; ambition; human rights and gender equality; and reporting) to review the SDG engagement of 76 of the world’s largest companies. It finds […]

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Evaluation report

Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services: Final project evaluation report

08/08/2018

2 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of the final evaluation of the project ‘Mobilising Progressive Domestic Resources for Quality Public Services’, a three-and-a-half-year project funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and implemented in Kenya and Vietnam. The project’s objective was to help make the fiscal systems in Kenya and Vietnam more progressive and […]

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Evaluation report

Influencing Policy and Civic Space: A meta-review of Oxfam’s Policy Influence, Citizen Voice and Good Governance Effectiveness Reviews

20/04/2018

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects on the lives of those they are intended to help. This meta-review uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis to summarize the results of 24 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of Citizen Voice, Policy Influence and Good Governance between 2011 and 2017.

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Evaluation report

Governance in Ethiopia: Impact evaluation of the African Climate Change and Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project

09/02/2018

2 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation of the project ‘African Climate Change and Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) in Ethiopia (phase 2)’, which ran from 1 November 2011 to 31 December 2016 as part of the Oxfam GB’s global CHASE Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA4) portfolio. The project aimed to enhance governance systems and climate […]

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Journal article

Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

09/11/2017

18 pages long

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Integrating a gender perspective into transparency and accountability initiatives: three case studies

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Natural resource wealth is not shared equally by all. While elites may capture the profits disproportionately in many contexts, marginalised social groups – including women – are less likely to experience the benefits of extraction, and are affected differently by virtue of their gendered roles in the economy and society. Women also tend to be […]

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Journal article

Domesticating water supplies through rainwater harvesting in Mumbai

13/07/2017

13 pages long

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Domesticating water supplies through rainwater harvesting in Mumbai

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Mumbai is a city where 60 per cent of the population are living in poverty in informal settlements, with low – and decreasing – water access, and low resilience to water shortage. In the middle-class areas of the city, inhabitants are being made responsible for securing their own water supplies via rainwater-harvesting technology, which is […]

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Case study

From Service Delivery to Sustainable Water Management in Tajikistan

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s WASH programme in Tajikistan is based on a theory of change which has four pillars: improved governance of water and sanitation at national and local levels; building demand for and supply of sanitation at a household level, alongside improved hygiene practices; social accountability in water provision; and securing financing for water and sanitation through […]

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Case study

Budget Monitoring for Economic Justice in Ghana

10/07/2017

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s economic justice programme in Ghana seeks to support smallholder farmers, with a focus on the country’s northern communities and coastal fishing communities in the south, and is based on three core pillars: adaptation, risk reduction and gender equity; value chain and rural enterprise development; and policy framework, budget monitoring and private sector development. This […]

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Evaluation report

Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance: Phase 2 Synthesis Evaluation, final report

23/06/2017

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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ACCRA, which began implementing its programme in Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia in 2009, works with national and local governments and civil society groups in the countries where its programmes are implemented to tackle complex climate change issues and work towards increasing community adaptive capacities, transforming governance systems and achieving climate justice. This evaluation of phase […]

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Research report

Protection and Governance: Linking good practice in protection and governance programmes in the DRC

12/06/2017

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo work in a context in which violent and non-violent conflict affect communities and protection and governance concerns are closely linked. Some protection threats, such as illegal taxes and arbitrary arrests, stem from structural governance issues, and other protection threats, such as forced marriage, are exacerbated through the […]

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