Oxfam India Archives - Page 8 of 14 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Women’s Right to Agricultural Land: Removing Legal Barriers for Achieving Gender Equality

07/07/2016

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Women’s land rights (WLR) have been and continue to be a live agenda in social development discourse of India. The importance of WLR has been discussed in the context of agriculture; poverty reduction; reduction in gender-based violence; women’s well-being and agency. There now exists a vast academic literature and experience of collective action to point […]

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Briefing note

Mobilising Civil Society towards Right to Free Public Health and Education in Jharkhand

30/05/2016

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Oxfam India believes that the right to universal access to good quality healthcare and education is a practical way of closing the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Oxfam India works in six states to empower the community to improve accountability of public delivery systems of healthcare and education. While in most states […]

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Briefing note

National Food Security Act 2013: Moving from exclusion to inclusion

14/04/2016

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India has one of the lowest per capita daily supply of calories, protein and fat, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). One of the biggest contradictions of contemporary India is the unconscionably high rates of child malnutrition and the largest number of hungry people in the world, even as it emerged […]

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Case study

Mobilising Women Farmers to Secure Land Rights in Uttar Pradesh

12/03/2016

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality; in India it works in seven focus state. Oxfam India aims to improve poor people’s access, rights and entitlements over land and natural resources in order to support and augment their livelihoods. Through its programme on smallholder agriculture, Oxfam India focuses on socialising the identity of […]

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Briefing note

Cash for Food: The Need for Caution

15/01/2016

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The Union government notified the Cash Transfer of Food Subsidy Rules on 21 August 2015, without much publicity. The proposal to introduce cash transfers instead of foodgrains in the Public Distribution System (PDS), via the National Food Security Act 2013 (NFSA), is ill-conceived and, if implemented, will be harmful to food security in the country. Concerns abound […]

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Case study

Oxfam in Action: Community-Based Monitoring to Claim Right to Food in Jharkhand

20/04/2015

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Chetna Vikas and Oxfam have set up village-level Food Security Committees, locally known as the Gram Ahar Raksha Dal (GARD), in 35 villages in two districts, Deoghar and Dumka, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The GARD provides a platform to the community and for the different food schemes, including the Mid Day Meal Scheme […]

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Case study

Addressing Violence Against Women and Girls Among the Muslim Community in Odisha

30/12/2015

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality; in India, it works in seven focus states. Oxfam India works against social acceptance of Violence Against Women (VAW), which is one of the most pervasive and the least recognised human rights violations across the world. Through its Gender Justice […]

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Case study

Activating Village Committees to Manage Forest Resources in Odisha

15/12/2015

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in seven states. Oxfam India’s programme on Fair Sharing of Natural Resources is aimed at promoting tribal livelihoods, food security and environment protection, and control and sustainable management of natural resources by facilitating access to rights, […]

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Case study

Community-Based Monitoring and Grievance Redressal in Schools in Delhi

10/12/2015

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in seven states. Oxfam India believes that right to education is important to close the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘havenots’. As a founding member of the Right to Education (RTE) Forum, it is working […]

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Briefing paper

Implementing the Forest Rights Act: Lack of political will?

26/11/2015

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Historically, usage of and access to forest resources by India’s Adivasi community and other forest dwellers have been considered encroachment and their efforts to acquire forest land have been used as evidence of their anti-development attitude. Government policy has continued to deny them legal rights to use, manage and conserve forest resources and to hold […]

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