Oxfam India Archives - Page 18 of 22 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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Mines and Minerals Bill: Disempowering the community

24/03/2015

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For over five years, the central government has been in the process of framing and enacting new legislation to develop and regulate India’s mines and minerals. However, within the span of less than two months the NDA government published an Ordinance both introducing and passing a new version of a Bill in both Houses of […]

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Oxfam in Action: Activating village-level monitoring to improve maternal health in Bihar

23/03/2015

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‘Improving Maternal Health in India’, an Oxfam-DFID programme running since 2012, was implemented in 420 villages across 6 states. It sought to improve maternal health status by building capacity in communities to demand, access and monitor public health services. This document describes how the CSOs BGVP and BVHA in Bihar are bringing about change by […]

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Briefing note

Oxfam in Action: Community based monitoring to improve maternal health in Odisha

23/03/2015

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‘Improving Maternal Health in India’, an Oxfam-DFID programme since 2012, was implemented in 420 villages across 6 States. It sought to improve maternal health status by building capacity in communities to demand, access and monitor public health services. This document reports how the CSO CYSD in Odisha is innovating with films to spread the message […]

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Briefing note

Oxfam in Action: Creating awareness to improve maternal health in Jharkhand

23/03/2015

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‘Improving Maternal Health in India’, an Oxfam-DFID project, was implemented in 420 villages across 6 States from 2012. It sought to improve maternal health status by building the capacity of communities to demand, access and monitor public health services. This document reviews the programme in Jharkhand where the CSO CINI is using an integrated approach […]

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Briefing note

Right to Education Act: Claiming education for every child

12/03/2015

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A conscious neglect of school education in the initial decades of independent India is termed by Dreze and Sen (2013) as a ‘home-grown folly’. Public services like education are key to nurture participatory growth as well as to ensure that growth improves peoples’ living conditions. However, India’s highly privatised and compartmentalised education system (largely unaccountable […]

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Briefing paper

Oxfam in Action: Community mobilization for ending violence against women

27/02/2015

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Violence against women (VAW) is one of the most widespread and least-recognized human rights violations across the world. Of its many manifestations, domestic violence is one of the most pervasive forms. This document describes the initiative by the CSO Humsafar in and around Lucknow to end VAW through community mobilization.

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Briefing note

Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014: Dismissing democracy, displacing safeguards?

26/02/2015

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The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (RFCLARR) was enacted in 2013 replacing the land acquisition policies prevalent in India since 1894. The Government of India on December 31, 2014 issued an ordinance making significant changes to the Act including removal of consent clause for acquiring land for […]

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Discussion paper

Thorny Transition: Women’s empowerment and exposure to violence in India

01/07/2014

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36 pages long

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This paper examines the relation between women’s empowerment in India and the risk of violence. It starts by situating women’s exposure to violence in the context of a gradual growth in female mobilization and freedom-from-violence rights, yet recognises that this is happening in the context of unfavourable social norms. The two conflicting trends produce a […]

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Uttarakhand: Development and ecological sustainability

25/06/2014

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44 pages long

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Massive floods and landslides in June 2013 led to what most believe to have been Uttrakhand’s worst disaster in living memory. The disaster led to a nationwide debate on whether anthropogenic activities in the name of economic development aggravated the impact of the disaster in North India. With charts and graphs, this paper makes a […]

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Discussion paper

Federalism and Fidelity: A review of the provisions under the national Model and State rules under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009

01/06/2014

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68 pages long

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India has the world’s largest number of child labourers and children out of school. This report provides an analysis of the basic provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 and the Model and State rules applicable to most Indian States. It assesses the extent to which the provisions in […]

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