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Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

Research report

Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Research report

The Rain Doesn’t Come On Time Anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia

26/04/2010

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Climate variability in Ethiopia is not new – but now, in addition to the usual struggles, Ethiopians living in poverty are additionally suffering the effects of climate change – both more variable climate and more extreme weather events. People who are already poor and marginalized are struggling with the added burden of climate variability. For […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Showing 838 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

Research report

Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Research report

The Rain Doesn’t Come On Time Anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia

26/04/2010

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Climate variability in Ethiopia is not new – but now, in addition to the usual struggles, Ethiopians living in poverty are additionally suffering the effects of climate change – both more variable climate and more extreme weather events. People who are already poor and marginalized are struggling with the added burden of climate variability. For […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Showing 838 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

Research report

Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

Research report

The Rain Doesn’t Come On Time Anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia

26/04/2010

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Climate variability in Ethiopia is not new – but now, in addition to the usual struggles, Ethiopians living in poverty are additionally suffering the effects of climate change – both more variable climate and more extreme weather events. People who are already poor and marginalized are struggling with the added burden of climate variability. For […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]