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Guidelines and toolkits

Market-Based Programming: What’s it all about?

04/02/2020

4 documents

9 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Before, during and after a crisis hits, communities around the world are buying and selling. Markets are places where these buyers and sellers come together to exchange goods and services. In the aftermath of a disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane, markets often bounce back and can supply goods and services before humanitarian agencies […]

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Evaluation report

Gender, Enterprise and Markets in Tajikistan: Building resilience, empowering lives

14/11/2019

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam initiated the three-year Gender, Enterprise and Markets (GEM) programme in Tajikistan in 2014 with financial support from the Department for International Development of the UK government. The main goal of the programme was to ensure that poor women and men in rural communities have better and more sustainable livelihoods through gendered strategies for inclusive and sustainable […]

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Research report

A Modified Emergency Market Mapping Analysis and Protection Analysis: Smoked fish and dried red pepper income market systems Diffa Region, Eastern Niger

09/12/2016

4 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Almost seven years of violent conflict in the Lake Chad Basin region of West Africa – involving Boko Haram and military operations to counter them – has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis. Originating in northeast Nigeria, the conflict has now spread across borders into Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The people of the Lake Chad […]

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Research report

The Influence of Market Support Interventions on Household Food Security: An evidence synthesis protocol

31/07/2016

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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This protocol outlines the proposed research questions and methodology for an evidence synthesis on the influence of market support interventions on household food security in humanitarian crises. Research questions identified include: What are the project parameters that drive the inclusion and exclusion of market supportÂ interventions in humanitarian crises? What are the potential contextual and institutional […]

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Research report

Pre-Crisis Market Analysis: Credit, drinking water and wheat flour market systems in Tilkaif and Shikhan districts, Ninewa Plains, Northern Iraq

31/03/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was captured by ISIS in June 2014 and remains under their control. The Iraqi army has vowed to recapture Mosul and the speculation is that a counter-offensive is imminent – a military operation which could have dramatic humanitarian implications. A large influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing towards the […]

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Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

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Journal article

Campaigning to save market women’s livelihoods in Hanoi: experience from HealthBridge

27/03/2015

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Campaigning to save market women’s livelihoods in Hanoi: experience from HealthBridge

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Traditional markets are at the heart of economic and social life in many cities, but in many, supermarkets and commercial centres are replacing the markets as governments pursue modernisation strategies. HealthBridge in Vietnam engaged in a multi-faceted advocacy campaign to show the importance of the markets in the country’s capital, Hanoi, for women’s livelihoods, the […]

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Case study

Scaling of small producers’ markets in 24 municipalities: How Oxfam helped create a network of local farmers’ markets in Columbia

25/09/2013

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shares the experience of the Colombia Economic Justice Programme in implementing a leveraging strategy – to replicate the flagship experience of Bogotá in the creation and consolidation of alternative, direct, and fair marketing channels operating between rural producers and urban consumers – which produced effective scaling in 24 municipalities of the central […]

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Technical briefing

Executive brief: Engaging with markets in humanitarian responses

10/07/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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In late 2012, Oxfam and WFP undertook joint research to understand how humanitarian agencies are engaging with markets. This brief represents the views of Oxfam and WFP on the main findings of this research and from other ongoing initiatives.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Minimum Requirements for Market Analysis in Emergencies

01/07/2013

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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The Minimum Requirements for Market Analysis in Emergencies builds upon work already undertaken relating both to market analysis (CaLP research ‘Markets in Emergencies’) and standard setting and answers this question: “What is the minimum market analysis required at various stages of the project cycle?” The Minimum Requirements have been developed on the understanding that ultimately […]

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