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Research report

Funding the Frontline: How an Oxfam Emergency Response Fund facilitated local humanitarian action

09/04/2021

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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From 2014 to 2020 Oxfam embedded an Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in its multiyear disaster risk reduction programs in Asia-Pacific and Central America. The Oxfam ERF was designed as a flexible funding mechanism to prioritize small-scale, under-the-radar, and forgotten emergencies and help local actors respond to and mitigate the impacts of disasters in their communities. […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

COVID-19 Protection Guidance

15/05/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus, declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Official measures in response to the outbreak have included physical distancing and severe restrictions on movement. These measures, along with the global scale of the crisis, pose an unprecedented challenge to the way we engage the […]

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Evaluation report

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

29/04/2020

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Power of Local Action is an Oxfam learning compendium on local humanitarian leadership (LHL) that arose out of learning events and global meetings held in 2019 in Nairobi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Istanbul, and draws from the recommendations of partners and Oxfam staff as well as more recent research. The aim is to provide, for […]

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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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Research report

“What will we eat while waiting for the crops to grow?” Case studies on effective early recovery for off-the-radar communities in selected countries in Asia and the Pacific

20/02/2020

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Which elements are likely to facilitate recover from disasters among ‘off-the-radar’ communities in the Asia-Pacific region? This research looked at five disaster risk reduction and early recovery interventions from the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. The report highlights the importance of existing relationships between communities and other actors, and of innovation – especially microfinance – in […]

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Research report

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

29/01/2020

5 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bengali, English

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This report examines women’s leadership in locally led humanitarian action with case studies from Bangladesh and South Sudan. Co-authored with two women’s organizations, Ashroy Foundation of Bangladesh and Rural Women for Development in South Sudan, it seeks to understand whether and how local humanitarian leadership (LHL) can promote or constrain women’s leadership. The report finds […]

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Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors

31/03/2017

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Local humanitarian leadership is built upon the premise that humanitarian action should be led by local humanitarian actors whenever possible, yet this research finds that secular humanitarian INGOs do not engage systematically with local faith actors in their local leadership work. Based primarily on interviews with humanitarian INGO staff, this research also found that neither […]

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Funding the Frontline: How an Oxfam Emergency Response Fund facilitated local humanitarian action

COVID-19 Protection Guidance

The Power of Local Action: Learning and Exploring Possibilities for Local Humanitarian Leadership

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

“What will we eat while waiting for the crops to grow?” Case studies on effective early recovery for off-the-radar communities in selected countries in Asia and the Pacific

Women Leading Locally: Exploring women’s leadership in humanitarian action in Bangladesh and South Sudan

Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors