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Evaluation report

Climate change, equity, and stranded assets

09/05/2016

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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International equity concerns around climate change have focused on the notion of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ as a means to ensure that developing countries do not shoulder an undue burden as the global economy is decarbonized.

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Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

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Evaluation report

Accountability through Active Citizenship: Improving petroleum governance mid-term reports

31/03/2016

4 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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A mid-term evaluation of the NORAD program objectives

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Briefing note

Achieving Natural Resource Justice

23/02/2016

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Extractive Industries Global Program Strategic Plan 2016 – 2019

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Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence: Links and lessons for practitioners working with intersectional approaches

30/11/2015

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper examines the intersectional elements of the links between women’s increased market-oriented economic activity and women’s experience of domestic violence. Through a literature review, complemented by perspectives from staff working within the Oxfam confederation working on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and violence against women (VAW), the research discussed in the paper found that WE […]

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Case study

Re-politicising Intersectionality: How an intersectional perspective can help INGOs be better allies to women’s rights movements

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper argues that the international development sector can become a better ally to women’s rights movements by changing its approach to intersectionality. Instead of using intersectionality merely as a way of understanding the impact of different social, political and economic identities on our gendered experiences, international organisations should build their understanding of how such […]

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Case study

Your Struggle is My Struggle: Integrating intersectionality in work with lesbian women, bisexual women and trans-women in Zimbabwe

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents the work of Voice of the Voiceless (VOVO), a civil society organization based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and development partner of Oxfam. VOVO is working to integrate intersectionality in its work with lesbian women, bisexual women and trans-women (LBT). This work highlights the importance of using intersectional awareness to build bridges and form […]

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Case study

Active Citizenship of Women and Youth in Nicaragua

30/11/2015

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the construction of intersectional strategies for active citizenship that have contributed to the Active Citizenship Program for Women and Youth (2011-2016) led by Oxfam in Nicaragua. The document seeks to highlight the intersecting forms of violence and subordination that women and youth identities in Nicaragua face in different ways, and underscore how […]

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Case study

Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia

30/11/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn. This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region […]

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Media briefing

Oxfam at a glance: Natural resources and rights

16/11/2015

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Oil, gas, and mining projects generate billions of dollars in the developing world, yet very little of this wealth benefits poor populations.

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