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Gender Justice in Resilient Development: Sharing programme learning from Africa, South Asia and Central America

22/01/2019

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their rights and improve their wellbeing despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty’. The Oxfam Framework for Resilient Development recognizes that the contexts we work in are increasingly characterized by natural and human-made risks, widening inequalities, rapid demographic change, and more frequent environmental and weather-related […]

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Evaluation report

Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information to Build Resilience

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate and disaster risk information are important tools for resilient development. Combining such information with participatory analysis and planning can create effective early warning systems, and inform forward-looking decision making at household and community levels. Through its programmes, Oxfam has built links with government agencies and local non-government organizations (NGOs) to ensure that information related to […]

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Evaluation report

Building Resilience Through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Partnerships are at the core of Oxfam’s work to bring about sustainable and transformative change. Oxfam is working in partnership with governments, civil society and the private sector to build the resilience of poor women and men in the Asia-Pacific region. Investment in these partnerships is delivering positive impact, ensuring locally relevant and innovative approaches to […]

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Research report

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30/08/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

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Research report

Addressing Water Shortages: A catalyst for more resilient development in Fiji

30/08/2017

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study draws on fieldwork in two communities in Fiji that participated in the 2002-05 Capacity Building to Enable the Development of Adaptation Measures in Pacific Island Countries (CBDAMPIC) project, one of the first adaptation projects in the Pacific that attempted to work at this community scale to build resilience to the longer-term impacts […]

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Gender Justice in Resilient Development: Sharing programme learning from Africa, South Asia and Central America

Using Climate and Disaster Risk Information to Build Resilience

Building Resilience Through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

Addressing Water Shortages: A catalyst for more resilient development in Fiji