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Journal article

Time poverty, gender and well-being: lessons from the Kyrgyz Swiss Swedish Health Programme

18/02/2013

12 pages long

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Time poverty, gender and well-being: lessons from the Kyrgyz Swiss Swedish Health Programme

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Time poverty methodologies are a response to the failure of income-based measures of poverty to reflect gendered aspects of well-being. However, national time use surveys normally fail to examine issues around women and men’s qualitative evaluation of their time uses, or the extent of their control over their own time. The result could be distorted […]

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Issue briefing

Summary of Oxfam response to UK government Measuring Child Poverty consultation

15/02/2013

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2012, the Department of Work and Pensions of the UK Government launched a consultation in order to design a better measurement of child poverty in the UK. Oxfam submitted a response in which we highlight that income and relative poverty must remain at the core of any measurement of poverty in the UK. […]

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Technical briefing

Technical Guidelines on Water Trucking in Drought Emergencies

04/01/2013

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Emergency water trucking to drought-affected populations, particularly in the Horn of Africa, has become cyclical intervention as rainfall patterns in these areas has become increasingly unpredictable. In addition to being expensive and unsustainable, cyclical water trucking is coming under increased scrutiny as it increasingly appears to have negative impacts on pastoralist livelihoods, existing coping mechanisms […]

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Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Cholera Outbreak Guidelines: Preparedness, prevention and control

13/08/2012

3 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This practical field guide brings together lessons learned from Oxfam’s past interventions in the prevention and control of cholera, and other related guidance. The aim is to provide a quick, step-by-step guide to inform cholera outbreak interventions and ensure public health programmes that are rapid, community-based, well-tailored, and gender and diversity aware. They will enable […]

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Journal article

The life a person lives: religion, well-being and development in India

01/08/2012

11 pages long

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This paper argues that discussion of religion and development sees religion in over-institutionalised ways and is biased towards Christianity over other traditions. It explores this through analysis of the World Bank-sponsored study, Voices of the Poor, and the authors’ own research in India. This shows that religious identities and practice can be quite fluid, especially […]

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Journal article

Social Network Analysis to evaluate organisational networks on sexual health and rights

01/11/2011

17 pages long

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There are many challenges in evaluating international networks. The use of conventional tools can be difficult and often provides less than useful information. Social Network Analysis offers benefits for network evaluators by allowing for documentation and analysis of inter-relationships between individuals and organisations. This paper describes the use of this approach in the evaluation of […]

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Journal article

Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

01/11/2011

15 pages long

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Women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in Cambodia

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The use of microfinance to enhance income generation and job opportunities among the poor is a popular tool for governments and non-governmental organisations involved in raising standards of living in developing countries. Providing very poor families with small loans to invest in their micro enterprises, Village Bank empowers them to create their own jobs, increase […]

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