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Case study

My Rights, My Voice Nepal Project Overview

12/08/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative three-year global programme which aims to engage marginalised children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Viet Nam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

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Case study

My Rights, My Voice Niger Project Overview

12/08/2013

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative three-year global programme which aims to engage marginalised children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Viet Nam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

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Case study

My Rights, My Voice Tanzania Project Overview

12/08/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

My Rights, My Voice is an innovative three-year global programme which aims to engage marginalised children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries – Afghanistan, Georgia, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Tanzania and Viet Nam. Children and young people have huge potential to transform their lives and communities. With the […]

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Case study

Development Finance and Inequality: Good practice in Ecuador, Rwanda and Thailand

08/08/2013

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Inequality is central to Oxfam’s mission to fight poverty. While growth is good for poverty reduction, its effectiveness is severely reduced in places where high levels of inequality persist and privileged elites are able to hoard the rewards. In those cases, marginalized groups will see little of the positive benefits from high growth rates. However, […]

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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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Discussion paper

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Resilience

01/08/2013

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

There is currently a wave of enthusiasm for “building resilience” in the international humanitarian and development sectors. This has coincided with a number of attempts to both define what resilience is and devise ways of measuring it. However, rather than comprehensively reviewing these attempts, this paper presents Oxfam GB’s own approach for both understanding and […]

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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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Overview

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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Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Improving Socio-Economic Conditions of Paddy Farmers in East Sri Lanka

01/08/2013

3 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The ‘Improving socio-economic conditions of paddy farmers in East Sri Lanka’ project aims to contribute to conflict mitigation and recovery in the north and east districts of Sri Lanka. Specific project activities included renovation of large-scale infrastructure, including rehabilitation of dams and irrigation schemes. This was supported by interventions to positively affect the paddy value-chain, […]

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Research report

Women’s Access to Justice in The Middle East: Challenges and recommendations

01/08/2013

2 documents

39 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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The major objective of this report is to assess the impact of legal fees on women’s access to justice (in terms of personal status and family matters) in four Arab countries: Lebanon (Mount Lebanon), Jordan (Zarqa), Iraq (Shamshamal in Kurdish Territory), and Yemen. The research then goes on to provide recommendations to enhance women’s access […]

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Briefing paper

Keeping the Lifeline Open: Remittances and markets in Somalia

31/07/2013

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Each year, Somali migrants around the world send approximately $1.3bn to Somalia in an expression of solidarity, faith, patriotism, and generosity. These flows represent a significant share of Somalia’s economy and help to reduce Somalia’s reliance on assistance from foreign governments and international organizations. Continued support from the Somali diaspora is essential for Somalia to […]

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