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War and Famine in Africa

01/11/1990

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Up to half of all the people who suffer from food insecurity in Africa have been affected by war. Local conflict is a long-term and growing problem, made worse by the continent’s shrinking resource base. In War And Famine In Africa, Mark Duffield shows how internal wars are fought on a terrain of semi-subsistence economies, […]

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Oxfam and the Environment

01/01/1990

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam works with groups of poor people in many parts of the world. For most of them, the quality of their lives – indeed their very survival – depends fundamentally upon the health of the natural environment. Yet, for many of these people – such as the farmers of Burkina Faso in the Sahel, or […]

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Central America Options for the Poor

01/01/1990

1 documents

63 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has worked alongside poor people in Central America for more than 25 years, through wars, earthquakes and revolutions. In up-to-date and readable form, this book presents the background to the current social and political crises in the region. Oxfam projects are described in detail. Ordinary people tell their own stories: of life in refugee […]

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Income Generation Schemes for the Urban Poor

01/01/1990

1 documents

143 pages long

Languages: English

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Income generation schemes in urban areas of the Third World are many and varied. However, too often such schemes fail to achieve sustainable economic viability and depend on continued funding by development agencies. This book examines the reasons for failures or successes and stresses that those wishing to help the urban poor improve their incomes, […]

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Credit & Savings for Development

01/01/1990

1 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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Poor people in Third World countries often have no access to credit for either short-term needs or long-term investment in their small business enterprises. Even when credit is available, the high rates of interest charged may lead to permanent indebtedness. This book examines various methods of making credit available to poor people as part of […]

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Evaluating Social Development Projects

01/01/1990

1 documents

173 pages long

Languages: English

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The goals of many social development projects involve such things as the promotion of participation, the awakening of consciousness, the encouragement of self-reliant strategies, and the development of indigenous sustainable capacity. But how are such things to be measured? What is the purpose of evaluating this kind of project? Who does the evaluation, and when […]

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Registration in Emergencies

01/01/1990

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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A fast and accurate registration carried out in the early stages of a relief operation can be invaluable when assessing needs and arranging for an efficient and fair distribution of food and other relief supplies. Based on Oxfam’s wide experience of administering relief operations in a variety of emergency situations, this manual gives a step-by-step […]

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The Caribbean: Making our own choices

01/01/1990

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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Throughout the Caribbean, communities of people are working together to create a few more choices and gain a little more control over their lives. ” This report is about those communities and the projects they have created and run. ‘ It has been written to help them tell their own stories and in the hope […]

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We Cry for our Land: Farm workers in South Africa

01/01/1990

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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In this book, black South African farm workers describe their working lives in their own words. Six million people – labourers and their families – are virtually no better off than slaves. The law guarantees them neither paid sick leave nor holidays, neither a guaranteed minimum wage nor overtime payments. They can be dismissed and […]

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Front Line Africa, The Right to a Future: An Oxfam report on conflict and poverty in Southern Africa

01/01/1990

7 documents

398 pages long

Languages: English

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Recent political moves have at last brought hope for meaningful political change in South Africa and the prospect of a free and independent future for millions of ordinary people in the region. Yet, as this timely report documents, apartheid continues to cause immense suffering inside South Africa, and the effects of destabilisation are still being […]

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