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Advocacy and National Elections: Women’s political participation in Honduras

07/02/2008

4 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

This paper discusses Oxfam’s advocacy work in Honduras on women’s political rights, and women’s leadership and empowerment in the political sphere. Beginning with an overview of the constraints that women face if they wish to participate in politics, the paper then goes on to discuss Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigning activities during and after the 2005 […]

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Case study

Raising Voices: Training for empowerment for women experiencing poverty in Britain

05/02/2008

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

The UK may be a developed country, but almost 25 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Women experience higher levels of poverty than men, just as they do in other parts of the world. Encouraging and supporting poor women to voice their own experiences and speak out to challenge the inequality […]

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Briefing note

Financing Adaptation: Why the UN’s Bali climate conference must mandate the search for new funds

04/12/2007

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Overview

Oxfam estimates that adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to cost at least $50bn each year, and far more if global greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut fast enough. Yet international funding efforts to date have been woeful. In the year that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its direst warnings […]

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Briefing note

Biofuelling Poverty: Why the EU renewable fuel target may be disastrous for poor people

01/11/2007

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

In January of this year, the European Commission published its Renewable Energy Roadmap, proposing a mandatory target that biofuels must provide ten per cent of member states’ transport fuels by 2020. This target is creating a scramble to supply in the South, posing a serious threat to vulnerable people at risk from land-grabbing, exploitation, and […]

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Briefing paper

Africa’s Missing Billions: International arms flows and the cost of conflict

11/10/2007

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Africa suffers enormously from conflict and armed violence. As well as the human tragedy, armed conflict costs Africa around $18bn per year, seriously derailing development. The most commonly used weapons in Africa’s conflicts are Kalashnikov assault rifles. The vast majority of these weapons and their ammunition – perhaps 95 per cent – come from outside […]

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Evaluation report

Oxfam GB in Partnership: A Global Strategic Evaluation 2006/07

28/09/2007

9 documents

97 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Oxfam GB has recently completed a global strategic evaluation of its partnerships in order to understand; how our partners feel we are performing in partnership; what we are learning about what contributes to an effective and empowering partnership; what we should be considering as we develop new partnerships in the future. The evaluation was undertaken […]

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Briefing paper

Signing Away The Future: How trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries undermine development

20/03/2007

7 documents

46 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Trade policy

Overview

The quiet advance of trade and investment agreements between rich and poor countries threatens to deny developing countries a favourable foothold in the global economy. Driven by the USA and the European Union, these agreements impose far-reaching rules that place severe restrictions on the very policies developing countries need in order to fight poverty.

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Book

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The good enough guide

09/02/2007

13 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bangla, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu

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Overview

What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessment and profiling. Its […]

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Briefing note

Unequal Partners: How EUACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) could harm the development prospects of many of the world’s poorest countries

27/09/2006

6 documents

17 pages long

Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

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Trade policy

Overview

The Doha ‘Development’ Round of trade talks has stalled, but the world’s poorest countries remain under pressure to open up their markets with potentially disastrous consequences. These negotiations were meant to ‘make trade fair’, but they were blocked by the USA and EU, unwilling to address the rigged rules and double standards from which they […]

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Briefing note

The AK47: The world’s favourite killing machine

26/06/2006

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Kalashnikov assault rifles are the most widespread military weapons in the world. It is estimated that there are between 50 and 70 million of them spread across the world’s five continents. They are used daily by soldiers, fighters, and gang members to inflict untold suffering in many countries. The spread of these weapons continues largely […]

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