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Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

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Briefing paper

Pitfalls and Potentials: The role of bioenergy in the EU climate and energy policy post-2020

28/04/2015

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

European Governments are increasingly relying on bioenergy as a cheap way to meet targets for renewable energy. Bioenergy represented 62 percent of the EU’s renewable energy use in 2012. But new evidence on the real climate impacts and other environmental and social impacts of bioenergy has made its use increasingly controversial. Sustainable bioenergy has a […]

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Technical briefing

Land Rights Indicators in the Post-2015 SDGs: Recommendations for the inter-agency expert group and other policymakers

10/03/2015

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This briefing makes recommendations for those working on the land rights aspect of the post-2015 agenda. It accompanies the technical briefing Secure and Equitable Land Rights in the Post-2015 Agenda The success of the post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) will depend on the adoption of indicators that allow measuring progress towards targets and provide helpful […]

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Technical briefing

Secure and Equitable Land Rights in the Post-2015 Agenda

21/01/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This technical briefing authored by a number of international organizations working on food security, natural resource management and poverty eradication, and endorsed by many local civil society organizations around the world, strongly encourages governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the document on sustainable development goals to be endorsed in […]

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Research report

Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the typhoon Haiyan response

08/12/2014

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This study is the second output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-government organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The report builds on findings from the 2013 report and provides evidence to demonstrate the extent to which partnership working took place in response to typhoon Haiyan […]

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Research report

Review of Myanmar’s Disaster Management Law from the Angle of Inclusivity

05/02/2014

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Disasters from natural hazards are increasing and becoming more complex. Governments are falling short of the promises they made under the Hyogo Framework for Action, and globally, not enough is being done to reduce risk for the most vulnerable people, including women, children, and people who are marginalized and living in poverty. The Myanmar government […]

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Research report

A Rapid Assessment of The Impacts of Price hikes on People in Selected Urban Areas

01/05/2011

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

Rapid assessments in three residential areas of Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh city in May, 2011 were implemented to discover response measures and the influence of price increases on urban groups, including the poor (people who receive social protection), migrants, local self-employed labourers, pensioners, civil servants and medium-income workers. The average retail price of […]

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Research report

Impact of Price Hikes on the Lives and Livelihoods of Poor People in Viet Nam: A follow-up activity to the participatory poverty monitoring initiative

04/05/2010

1 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In January 2007, Viet Nam was admitted as the 150th member country of the WTO. It was widely recognised that this would bring many new opportunities to Viet Nam, but would also pose many challenges, especially in ensuring that the full benefits of WTO membership are shared by the whole of Viet Nam’s population, including […]

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Briefing paper

EU Heroes and Villains: Which countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade and debt?

14/02/2005

4 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Overview

2005 is already an extraordinary year. The tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 caused widespread devastation, killed hundreds of thousands of people, left millions homeless, and plunged already poor countries into even deeper poverty. While the disaster has caused great devastation, the global wave of solidarity and public generosity that followed it […]

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Briefing paper

Do the Deal: The G7 must act now to cancel poor country debts

01/02/2005

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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The poorest countries in the world pay $100 million dollars a day to their rich country creditors, more than they spend on health. Along with increasing aid and reforming trade, debt cancellation is an essential step towards ending poverty. As the G7 Finance Ministers convene in London for their first meeting of 2005 they must […]

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