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Typhoon Haiyan: Community research into the relocation of internally displaced people in the Philippines

15/05/2015

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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In February and March 2014, Oxfam carried out field research in the Philippines with people displaced by typhoon Haiyan in order to inform and influence the government-led process for their relocation. The project tested a cyclical research process – including an innovative digital survey – in order to make timely use of the findings in […]

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Evaluation report

Policy Influence in Vietnam: Evaluation of participatory poverty monitoring

26/03/2015

3 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the citizen voice thematic area. This report documents the findings of a qualitative impact evaluation, carried out in August 2014. The evaluation used process tracing to assess the effectiveness of the Participatory Poverty Monitoring (PPM) project in Vietnam. The […]

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Research report

The Welsh Doughnut: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice

09/03/2015

3 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, while living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are captured in Oxfam’s Doughnut model, which offers a framework to create a safe and just space for humanity to exist within. At the national level, the Welsh Doughnut model suggests areas […]

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Evaluation report

Policy Influence in Scotland: Evaluation of Beyond the Horizon

21/11/2014

3 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, randomly selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. This report documents the findings of a qualitative impact evaluation, carried out in February 2014 to assess the effectiveness of the ‘Beyond the Horizon’ project in Scotland. The ‘Beyond the Horizon’ project included […]

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Journal article

Balancing Accountability and Learning: A review of Oxfam GB’s global performance framework

17/11/2014

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores Oxfam GB’s early experience implementing an alternative approach to operationalising global outcome indicators as a means of understanding programme impact and organisational performance. Non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the international development sector need credible, reliable feedback on whether their interventions are making a meaningful difference, but they struggle to achieve this in […]

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Case study

Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

06/10/2014

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reflects Oxfam’s experience of commissioning and managing action research in OPTI. Action research is a process of enquiry conducted by citizens and members of affected communities, rather than by trained researchers. Civil society in OPTI has limited space for operation. Oxfam therefore identified action research as a potentially effective model of community empowerment […]

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Research report

The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland

25/07/2014

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, whilst living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are depicted by Oxfam’s Doughnut Model. It allows people to visualise a space between planetary boundaries (the outer edge of the Doughnut) and a social floor (the inner edge), where it is […]

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Journal article

Introduction to Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

09/07/2014

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction to Gender, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Research report

Planning for an Uncertain Future: Promoting adaptation to climate change through flexible and forward-looking decision making

09/05/2014

2 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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The need for decision making that is flexible, forward-looking and able to adapt to the unexpected is clear. One approach for achieving this is ‘Flexible and Forward-Lookingâ€‹ Decision Making’ (FFDM). But what is it, and how can it be operationalised in practice? This report documents the activities of the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) in seeking to […]

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Book

Contribution to Change: An approach to evaluating the role of intervention in disaster recovery

22/11/2013

3 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves. Agencies must now provide evidence of the impact of their interventions. But applying conventional evaluation methods can pose problems. How can we assess the difference that intervention makes? […]

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