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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Regional Humanitarian Work in West Africa

01/11/2007

2 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

West Africa is fraught by conflict and natural disaster in a context of chronic poverty and human deprivation, which disproportionately affects women. The regional humanitarian project aims to enhance OGB and partners capacities to identify and respond to humanitarian crises in a timely, proportionate and appropriate manner. It further aims at promoting best practice in […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of The Cash Component of the Oxfam Zambia Flood Response 2007

01/10/2007

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Zambia flood response took place in Mongu district, Western province, for six months in 2007. The objective was to prevent water related diseases and reduce suffering amongst 13,000 people affected by flooding. The specific aim of the cash component (four months) was to prevent malnutrition, harmful levels of asset depletion and/or negative coping strategies […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Promoting Food Security Project in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

01/10/2007

2 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The ‘Promoting Food Security in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ project was implemented from August 2006 – July 2007. Its principal objective was to contribute to reducing poverty and food insecurity in the OPT, with a focus on decreasing household food insecurity for vulnerable families in Western Hebron Governorate and Gaza. This final evaluation aims to: […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Plastic Sheeting: A guide to the specification and use of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief

13/07/2007

3 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This booklet is aimed to help humanitarian aid workers make more informed decisions on the use of plastic sheeting in emergencies. The target audience includes programme managers, field based engineers and technical staff, logisticians and others involved in providing emergency shelter and sanitation services to disaster and conflicted families.

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Evaluation report

Evaluation des connaissances, attitudes et pratiques en gestion des risques et des catastrophes

01/04/2007

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: French

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Overview

Les communes de Bas Limbe, de Port-Margot et du Borgne, situees A l’Ouest du Cap-Haitien, et celle du Limbe au Sud-Ouest, representent quatre des communes les plus vulnerables du departement du Nord. Dans le but de contribuer A la reduction du niveau de vulnerabilite de ces communautes, OXFAM GB a concu et mis en ouvre […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Niassa Food and Livelihood Security Programme in Mozambique

01/03/2007

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Food and Livelihood Security programme in southern Niassa supported about 7000 rural and poor farmer families to improve their productivity of food and cash crops, diversify crops and market access, build the capacity of farmers’ organisations, and influence decision makers through advocacy work and popular campaigning at local and national levels. The final evaluation […]

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Book

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The good enough guide

09/02/2007

13 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bangla, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu

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Overview

What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessment and profiling. Its […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness Project in Western Mongolia

01/02/2007

2 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In May 2004, AA Mongolia implemented a thirty-two month project entitled ‘Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness in Western Mongolia’, with grant funding from Oxfam GB. The project aimed to strengthen the resistance of poor herders and other residents affected by winter disasters in three soums (counties) in Zavkhan Province. This was achieved by improving access to […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Sustainable Livelihoods, Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) Support, and Emergency Seed Distribution Projects in Eritrea

01/02/2007

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Eritrea suffered four consecutive years of drought with an estimated 2.3 million people (67% of the population) affected in 2005. The objectives of each of these projects were: 1. Sustainable Livelihoods (ERIA44) improving the food and income security of 19,785 people. 2. Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Support (ERIA51) improving the agricultural production of 600 IDP […]

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Technical briefing

Excreta Disposal for Physically Vulnerable People in Emergencies

19/01/2007

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

All kinds of people experience a variety of physical difficulties, which can make it difficult to use standard designs of latrines. For example, elderly men and women with weak legs may struggle to squat or rise from the squatting position when using a standard latrine, and there may be nothing for a pregnant woman, or […]

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