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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of the Rights in Crisis Programme 2023

26/11/2025

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam Pilipinas commissioned an impact evaluation of its Rights in Crisis (RIC) programme. The evaluation assessed the impact of RIC in reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening resilience in withstanding disasters and its post-disaster effect. It looked at the overall design of the RIC, including the individual designs of projects under the programme, to determine its relevance, […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Strengthening Harmonized Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness, and Recovery (SHARPER) Project

26/11/2025

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents findings and recommendations from the independent impact evaluation commissioned by Oxfam Pilipinas of its Strengthening Harmonized Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness, and Recovery (SHARPER) Project (Phase 1) that it implemented with local partners within the provinces of Catanduanes and Eastern Samar in the Philippines. The evaluation focused on assessing SHARPER’s gains […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Conflict Sensitivity Framework

17/07/2025

24 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Any intervention in a fragile or conflict affected context will inevitably have an impact on that context. These impacts may be intended or unintended, positive or negative, relatively minor or highly significant. Any organisation operating in such a context therefore has a responsibility to try to understand what those impacts may be, and to account […]

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Briefing paper

Land, Peace and Security: Secure access to land as a vital guarantee for the protection of communities in the Sahel

26/05/2025

2 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The lack of secure access to land is a major driver of physical and food insecurity, violence, and violations of the fundamental rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities. This briefing paper outlines the causes and consequences of restricted land access and explores its links with protection risks in the context of […]

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Briefing note

The Triple Nexus in Somaliland: Lessons from integrated humanitarian-development-peacebuilding work in El-Afweyn district

22/11/2024

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam is committed to working with communities before, during and after crises. In Somaliland, we have been piloting approaches that aim to achieve greater synergy between our humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programming and influencing. This innovative ‘triple nexus’ work recognises that communities' needs and ambitions are not met along the false silos created by aid agencies. […]

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Briefing paper

Still Treading Water: Reviewing six years of the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism and the dire water situation in the Gaza Strip

22/03/2021

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Six years after the establishment of the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM), people in Gaza continue to live on the brink of disaster as a result of 13 years of the Israeli blockade. The water, sanitation and health (WASH) sector remains significantly damaged, with Gaza facing the complete collapse of its wastewater treatment system. The reconstruction […]

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Briefing paper

Survivantes et Héroïnes: Les femmes dans la crise au Burkina Faso

25/05/2020

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Le Burkina Faso connaît actuellement l'une des crises les plus préoccupantes au monde, à laquelle vient s’ajouter la pandémie du COVID-19. En avril 2020, le pays comptait plus de 848 000 personnes déplacées internes, dont 84 % de femmes et d’enfants. Par ailleurs, 2,2 millions de personnes ont besoin d'aide humanitaire. Les femmes se retrouvent au cœur de cette […]

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Research report

Anchored in Local Reality: Case Studies on Local Humanitarian Action from Haiti, Colombia, and Iraq

31/03/2020

3 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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Critiques of international humanitarian aid have long suggested that it needs to be more inclusive of actors from crisis-affected countries. Increased attention to this issue over the past decade or so has coalesced into a set of agendas often referred to as the “localization” of humanitarian assistance, “local humanitarian leadership” (LHL), and “local humanitarian action” […]

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Briefing paper

One Year On: Time to put women and girls at the heart of the Rohingya response

11/09/2018

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Beginning on 25 August 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh seeking safety and lifesaving assistance. While safe from the violence they were subjected to in Myanmar, Rohingya women continue to face huge protection risks and challenges in Bangladesh. This briefing paper looks at how the humanitarian response, one year on, is […]

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Briefing note

Tailor Made: How Syrian refugee women are finding their own way to join the Jordanian economy

07/08/2018

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Earning an income is a struggle for the residents of Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan, and women’s economic participation is extremely low. Oxfam initiated the Lel-Haya (For Life) project in Za’atari to build the capacities of Syrian refugee women, both in vocational training and soft skills. A small number of women involved in the project […]

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