Knowledge. Shared. Natural resources Filter Resources by Resource type Resource type Annual report Book Briefing note Briefing paper Campaign report Case study Discussion paper Education resource Evaluation report Guidelines and toolkits Issue briefing Journal article Media briefing Policy position Policy position Test Research report Technical briefing Subjects Subjects Aid Approach and methodology Climate change Conflict and disasters Economics Education Food and livelihoods Gender Governance and citizenship Health Humanitarian Inequality Natural resources Private sector Resilience Rights sanitation and hygiene Trade Water Water, sanitation and hygiene Countries Countries Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte D'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Occupied Palestinian Territory Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Korea Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia Somaliland South Africa South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Democratic Republic of Congo Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Türkiye Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Viet Nam Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Languages Languages Anglais Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bangla Bengali Burmese Chinese Danish Dari Dutch English French German Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Indonesian Italian Japanese Khmer Korean Nepali Pashto Persian Polish Portugese Portuguese Russian Serbian Somali Spanish Spring Swahili Thai Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Apply filters Clear all filters Showing 93 available resources Sort by Sort by date (latest first) Sort by date (oldest first) Sort by title (alphabetical order) Case study SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Supporting women’s livelihoods by bringing water to Lulinda, DRC 01/04/2016 1 documents 2 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Capacity building Community building Development methods Economic empowerment Food production Health promotion Humanitarian practice Livelihoods Maternal and child health MDGs Millenium Development Goals Natural resources Participation Resource scarcity Smallholder agriculture Sustainability Sustainable development WASH Water and sanitation WEL Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview Ungwa Sangani, a single mother who lives in Lulinda, South Kivu, used to leave home very early in the morning to make a two-hour round-trip to a river to fetch contaminated water for herself and her three children. She would stop work in her field early to collect water again in the afternoon, and had […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits A Companion Guide to Resilience 04/02/2016 1 documents 42 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Asia Climate change adaptation Conflict Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR M&E Monitoring and evaluation Natural resources Programme design Resilience Smallholder agriculture Water and sanitation Overview Asia is experiencing unprecedented change. Some of these changes are bringing undeniable benefits, such as the millions of Asians being lifted out of poverty by economic growth, and the soaring accessibility of information technology. Other changes are increasing the vulnerability of many portions of the population: climate change, the rapid increase in the number of […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Oxfam’s Strategy for Resilience in Asia 04/02/2016 1 documents 16 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Asia Climate change adaptation Conflict Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Natural resources Resilience Smallholder agriculture Water and sanitation Overview Asia is experiencing unprecedented change. Some of these changes are bringing benefits, while others are increasing the vulnerability of some or all of the population. Resilience building is a counter to these drivers of vulnerability. The Asia Resilience Strategy for 2015 ‘2020 provides a broad framework on inclusive humanitarian and development trajectories focused on the […] View resource Briefing paper Implementing the Forest Rights Act: Lack of political will? 26/11/2015 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Community building Discrimination Economic empowerment Inequality Land rights Livelihoods Natural resources Sustainable livelihoods approach Overview Historically, usage of and access to forest resources by India’s Adivasi community and other forest dwellers have been considered encroachment and their efforts to acquire forest land have been used as evidence of their anti-development attitude. Government policy has continued to deny them legal rights to use, manage and conserve forest resources and to hold […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits Introducing the SWIFT Tool for Environmental Assessment and Risk Screening for Rural Water Supply 01/08/2015 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Capacity building Climate change adaptation Community building Development methods Drought Humanitarian practice Local Government M&E MDGs Millenium Development Goals Monitoring and evaluation Natural resources Participation Programme management Resource scarcity Sustainable livelihoods approach WASH Water and sanitation Overview Achieving long-term increases in rural water-supply coverage depends on many factors. A new tool developed for the SWIFT Consortium supports environmental assessment and risk screening activitiesfor rural water supplies in low-income contexts. When conducting a detailed hydrogeological survey is not an option, the SWIFT tool provides simple guidance to help identify and mitigate environmental risks to long-term water […] View resource Briefing paper Harmless Harvest: How sustainable agriculture can help ASEAN countries adapt to a changing climate 25/05/2015 1 documents 22 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations Climate change adaptation Food security Greenhouse gas emissions Natural resources Smallholder agriculture Overview A better way of growing food is the best bet against climate change for Southeast Asia’s small-scale food producers. Sustainable agriculture – agriculture that can meet the needs of present and future generations, ensures the efficient production of safe, high-quality agricultural products in a way that protects the natural environment, and improves on the economic […] View resource Briefing paper Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community 24/03/2015 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractive industry Land rights Livelihoods Mining Natural resources Welfare Overview For over five years, the central government has been in the process of framing and enacting new legislation to develop and regulate India’s mines and minerals. However, within the span of less than two months the NDA government published an Ordinance both introducing and passing a new version of a Bill in both Houses of […] View resource Evaluation report Oxfam Sense Making Exercise for a Selection of Evaluations 2013-2014 01/02/2015 4 documents 80 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Advocacy Agriculture Campaigning Capacity building Civil society Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Early warning system Economic empowerment Floods Food production Food security Gender mainstreaming Gender-based violence Girls' education Health promotion Humanitarian practice Land rights Livelihoods Local Government M&E Masculinity Monitoring and evaluation Natural resources Participation Programme management Sexual and reproductive health and rights Smallholder agriculture SRHR Sustainable livelihoods approach Value chains WASH Water and sanitation WEL Women farmers Women's Economic Leadership Overview This document reviews a sample of evaluations carried out between January 2013 and October 2014; it is an exercise required by Oxfam’s Policy of Program Evaluation. The findings tell us about the nature of Oxfam’s programming, helping identify strengths and weaknesses, and lessons, from our programs; the report includes remarks on our evaluation quality. The review is motivated […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits The Climate Forecast Model: Lessons from ACCRA Uganda 10/09/2014 1 documents 6 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Climate change adaptation Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Early warning system Food security Gender mainstreaming Livelihoods Natural resources Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview In Uganda, roughly 70 percent of households are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization determined that the drop in the growth of the Ugandan economy from 6.6 percent in 2004–05 to 5.3 percent in 2005–06 was largely due to the variability of the weather, specifically its impact on agriculture. It is […] View resource Briefing paper Delivering Prosperity in Myanmar’s Dryzone: Lessons from Mandalay and Magwe on realizing the economic potential of small-scale farmers 28/08/2014 2 documents 40 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development methods Food security Investment Land rights Livelihoods Microfinance Natural resources Smallholder agriculture Women farmers Overview Myanmar is undergoing intense and rapid changes. Policies formulated today will determine the future path of political and economic development. Modernization of the country’s agricultural sector is, rightly, a priority. However, mechanization and large-scale agricultural investment is not the only option. Small farm development provides a commercially viable option with better outcomes in terms of […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 10 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know