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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

07/10/2013

6 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Innovations in Care Work Project proposes a methodology for assessing care work in rural and urban communities, and for discussing options to redistribute and reduce care responsibilities more equitably. The methodology is composed of two ‘companion documents’: The Guidance for Managers and Facilitators provides the background for making adequate and effective use of the […]

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Research report

Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues

07/10/2013

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s initiative ‘Innovations in Care’ aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy practitioners to work more effectively on care issues. Care is understood as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues, overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research […]

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Case study

A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget

25/09/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […]

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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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Case study

A Mushrooming business: How Oxfam is facilitating development of the horticulture sector while improving the status of women in Rwanda

25/09/2013

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shares the work of Oxfam’s Livelihood programme, Women’s Economic Leadership, in the horticulture sector in Rwanda. It shows that with the right business opportunities and training, women working in rural agriculture can be savvy business people, innovators, breadwinners, and community leaders.

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Case study

Leveraging for change: Advocating for a universal agricultural insurance scheme in Bolivia

08/08/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2009, Oxfam took forward a civil society demand for an agricultural insurance scheme against climate risks in Bolivia and worked with international colleagues and local experts to collect information and data supporting the initiative. The government developed a policy for universal agricultural insurance. However, opposition from farmers’ organisations led to the initiative being dropped. […]

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Evaluation report

Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya

01/08/2013

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […]

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Case study

The Lead-Firm Model: Connecting smallholders to high-value markets in Tanzania

23/07/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In Tanzania, Oxfam adopted the ‘Lead-Firm’ Model and partnered with Katani Ltd. to improve smallholder access to markets for sisal. Katani agreed to improve the production and processing capacity of the smallholders, and committed to purchase all quality sisal fibre. Both Oxfam and Katani funded training for smallholders, while Oxfam supplied them with loans to […]

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Case study

Functional Adult Literacy: Sustainable, women-focused capacity-building in Ethiopia

23/07/2013

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In Limu, Ethiopia, Oxfam worked with partners and local government to develop a Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) programme for smallholders to enhance women’s economic leadership, increase production and improve the quality of organic coffee. The programme combined literacy classes with training on agricultural and financial capacity-building. This approach increased attendance and improved smallholders’ skills across […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: Toolkit for Wales

01/07/2013

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is a method of analysing and changing the lives of people experiencing poverty and disadvantage. It is a participatory approach based on the recognition that all people have abilities and assets that can be developed to help them improve their lives. Oxfam has already supported community development organisations to apply […]

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