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Briefing paper

From Aspiration to Reality: Unpacking the Africa Mining Vision

09/03/2017

3 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) is a policy framework that was created by the African Union in 2009 to ensure that Africa uses its mineral resources strategically for broad-based, inclusive development. Eight years after its inception, implementation has been slow and there is a low level of awareness of the framework among key stakeholders in […]

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Briefing paper

Private-finance Blending for Development: Risks and opportunities

13/02/2017

2 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Aid donors increasingly seek to inject private-sector resources into development by ‘blending’ official development assistance (ODA) with private finance. There is little evidence of the development impact, and projects often do not align with country ownership, transparency and accountability. It is not always clear whether ODA subsidies are necessary. Blending could support pro-poor projects, such […]

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Research report

Labour Rights in Vietnam: Unilever’s progress and systemic challenges

04/07/2016

2 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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In 2011, Oxfam published a study into the gap between Unilever’s high-level policies on labour rights and the reality on the ground for workers in Vietnam. Oxfam has reviewed the progress made since 2011 and found that the company’s overall commitment to respecting human and labour rights has been strengthened as a result of effective […]

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Briefing paper

Feeding Climate Change: What the Paris Agreement means for food and beverage companies

27/06/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Italian

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The Paris Agreement marked a major breakthrough in support for climate action from many parts of the business community, including from key actors in the food and beverage sector. But despite significant progress, much work remains both to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to support the millions of people already hit by climate change. As […]

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Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

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Journal article

Agenda 2030: A bold enough framework towards sustainable, gender-just development?

04/03/2016

16 pages long

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Agenda 2030: A bold enough framework towards sustainable, gender-just development?

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This article, from two members of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), aims to provide a perspective from a long-standing south-based network in the global women’s movement on the Sustainable Development framework for the next decades. It starts by highlighting some of the key remaining challenges for the advancement of women’s human […]

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Discussion paper

Getting to Good: Towards responsible corporate tax behaviour

17/11/2015

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Tax is an issue of good corporate governance and responsible business practice. This discussion paper, written jointly with ActionAid and Christian Aid, proposes what ‘good’ looks like in responsible corporate tax behaviour, and contains a wide range of positive behaviours and actions companies can undertake to go beyond legal compliance and result in significant gains […]

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Research report

Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women’s economic empowerment in agriculture

30/10/2014

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper responds to recent focus in the development sector on creating employment for women. It argues that sustaining women’s economic empowerment depends on employment being decent work, with safeguards, that is accessible to many women. Approaches combine integrated interventions to increase participation in markets with broader investments for social infrastructure, supportive norms and addressing […]

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Briefing note

Power, Rights, and Inclusive Markets: Public policies that support small-scale agriculture

05/06/2013

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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By supporting small-scale agricultural producers, policy makers in governments and donor agencies can help some of the poorest people in the world to improve their livelihoods. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that most donor and government policies are currently biased towards large-scale agriculture at the expense of small-scale producers, women, and rural communities. This briefing note draws […]

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