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Case study

Fertile Ground

12/10/2012

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Farming in the UK continues to experience challenges. The pressure to increase efficiency, whilst input costs rise and policies and support structures change, lead many farmers to question how their farms will fit into the farming sector of tomorrow. The National Farmers Network – an Oxfam partner – supports low income farmers all over the […]

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Briefing paper

The Perfect Storm: Economic stagnation, the rising cost of living, public spending cuts, and the impact on UK poverty

14/06/2012

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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The combination in the UK of economic stagnation and public spending cuts is causing substantial hardship to people living in poverty. This amounts to a ‘Perfect Storm’ of falling incomes, rising prices, public service cuts, benefit cuts, a housing crisis, and weak labour rights. By making different political choices, the government can both protect people […]

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Discussion paper

When Work Won’t Pay: In-work poverty in the UK

29/11/2011

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

For the past 30 years, the political consensus has held that work is the best route out of poverty. Yet more than four million of the 13.5 million people who live in poverty in the UK are working. There is clearly a contradiction between the consensus and the reality. This paper is a discussion of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

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There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

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Case study

Social Enterprise: A route out of poverty for women?

01/11/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Social enterprise is increasingly promoted by government and local authorities as a means of generating income and providing employment, particularly for women, in areas where there are few jobs. However, while social enterprise can have a role to play in helping women in disadvantaged neighbourhoods into work – and so out of poverty – it […]

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Research report

Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda

10/10/2011

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is an analytical model that seeks to build on the existing assets and strategies that people living in poverty use to support themselves, and then to identify what needs to change in order for their livelihoods to become more secure and sustainable. The SLA takes as its starting point not […]

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Case study

Improving Support for Families Living in Poverty: Applying the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach

01/09/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

People experiencing poverty are often categorised in terms of what they are lacking, their failures and their problems. This research project demonstrates that taking a holistic approach which looks at what people have, and what they already do to cope with poverty, can help practitioners to support individuals and families more effectively.

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Discussion paper

Stigmatising Poverty? The ‘Broken Society’ and reflections on anti-welfarism in the UK today

01/06/2011

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores the stigma of the most disadvantaged sections of society in the UK today. In the context of economic and financial crisis, there is a strong anti-welfarism based on the idea that welfare provision is to blame for the social and moral crisis in the UK. This idea is also perpetuated by the […]

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Discussion paper

Can Public Services ‘Protect the Vulnerable’ in the Age of Austerity? Considering the evidence on street-cleaning services in the age of growth

01/06/2011

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper focuses on whether public service provision serves the needs of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the UK. It summarises evidence from a study of street-cleaning services in the UK, which shows that resource allocation does not always follow needs – even at a time when there was public spending growth and the needs of deprived […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

GenderWorks toolkit

01/04/2008

3 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

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Overview

The GenderWorks toolkit is a free practical guide to gender equality produced by Oxfam GB for their GenderWorks project. It’s designed to help women’s groups campaign successfully on gender, poverty and social exclusion issues; as well as assist public bodies to meet their obligations under equalities legislation whilst tackling poverty more effectively among women. The […]

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