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Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07 Nov 2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Research report

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30 Aug 2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12 Jun 2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05 Jun 2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08 Mar 2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Researching the Killer Fact That Highlighted Global Economic Inequality

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study of research in practice describes how in 2014 Oxfam staff researched and developed a powerful killer fact ‘ that the 85 richest people owned as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people ‘ and how this triggered international media coverage, political commentary, and record-level website hits.

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09 Nov 2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Journal article

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

09 Nov 2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

Keywords

Overview

Across Iraq, the number of displaced people in June 2016 exceeded 3.3 million – 10 per cent of the population. In the context of the ongoing crisis in the country, women and girls have been particularly affected and their ability to engage in livelihoods activities has been disrupted. Through a series of studies and projects, […]

Journal article

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

09 Nov 2016

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

Keywords

Overview

New Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) research suggests that effective donor programming on gender in fragile contexts requires doing more and doing things differently. A critical step is to close financing gaps in key sectors through both dedicated funding and gender mainstreaming. Donors can also do more to improve quality of programming, notably […]

Showing 808 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07 Nov 2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Research report

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30 Aug 2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12 Jun 2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05 Jun 2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08 Mar 2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Researching the Killer Fact That Highlighted Global Economic Inequality

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study of research in practice describes how in 2014 Oxfam staff researched and developed a powerful killer fact ‘ that the 85 richest people owned as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people ‘ and how this triggered international media coverage, political commentary, and record-level website hits.

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09 Nov 2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Journal article

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

09 Nov 2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

Keywords

Overview

Across Iraq, the number of displaced people in June 2016 exceeded 3.3 million – 10 per cent of the population. In the context of the ongoing crisis in the country, women and girls have been particularly affected and their ability to engage in livelihoods activities has been disrupted. Through a series of studies and projects, […]

Journal article

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

09 Nov 2016

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

Keywords

Overview

New Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) research suggests that effective donor programming on gender in fragile contexts requires doing more and doing things differently. A critical step is to close financing gaps in key sectors through both dedicated funding and gender mainstreaming. Donors can also do more to improve quality of programming, notably […]

Showing 808 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07 Nov 2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Research report

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30 Aug 2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The CARIAA Research-into-Use Learning Guide

12 Jun 2017

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This learning guide, commissioned by the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), is designed to provide research teams with a bottom-up and experience based tool to better understand the effectiveness ‘ and inefficiencies ‘ of different approaches to Research-into-Use (RiU), the uptake of research which contributes to a change in policy or […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05 Jun 2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08 Mar 2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Researching the Killer Fact That Highlighted Global Economic Inequality

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study of research in practice describes how in 2014 Oxfam staff researched and developed a powerful killer fact ‘ that the 85 richest people owned as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people ‘ and how this triggered international media coverage, political commentary, and record-level website hits.

Research report

Mixing Research Methods in an Impact Evaluation in Pakistan

19 Dec 2016

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Mixed-methods research for evaluation, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, is widely recognized for its potential. It also poses challenges, especially for NGOs with limited resources and capacity for undertaking complex programmes of research and evaluation. This study describes one of Oxfam’s first attempts to integrate qualitative research into an effectiveness review that was based primarily […]

Journal article

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

09 Nov 2016

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Empowerment’ of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa: research about girls, by girls

Keywords

Overview

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]

Journal article

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

09 Nov 2016

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Researching livelihoods recovery and support for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Iraq

Keywords

Overview

Across Iraq, the number of displaced people in June 2016 exceeded 3.3 million – 10 per cent of the population. In the context of the ongoing crisis in the country, women and girls have been particularly affected and their ability to engage in livelihoods activities has been disrupted. Through a series of studies and projects, […]

Journal article

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

09 Nov 2016

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

How can donors improve their support to gender equality in fragile settings? Findings from OECD research

Keywords

Overview

New Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) research suggests that effective donor programming on gender in fragile contexts requires doing more and doing things differently. A critical step is to close financing gaps in key sectors through both dedicated funding and gender mainstreaming. Donors can also do more to improve quality of programming, notably […]