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Enabling Voices, Demanding Rights: A guide to gender-sensitive community engagement in large-scale land-based investment in agriculture

25/05/2018

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Agricultural investment can benefit local communities, but evidence suggests that the adverse impacts of large-scale land-based investments in Africa are disproportionately borne by women. Women often suffer from a lack of formal land rights and can be excluded from opportunities to participate and voice their interests in the management and proposed allocation of community land […]

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Research report

Measuring Household Stress: The development of a contextualized multi-sector Coping Strategy Index for Afghanistan

24/05/2018

4 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Dari, English, Pashto

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Oxfam developed a multi-sector Coping Strategy Index (mCSI) to provide the humanitarian community in Afghanistan with a tool to assess and monitor the impact of interventions – especially multi-purpose cash grants – with data collected from Nangarhar, Herat, Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul provinces. The project was funded by EU humanitarian aid and Oxfam. This report […]

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Briefing note

IFI Energy Investments in Bangladesh: A way forward to SDG 7

21/05/2018

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Bangladesh is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, yet at the same time it has demonstrated climate leadership, particularly in pioneering solar energy for all. The government has committed to ensuring access to affordable and reliable electricity for all citizens by 2021. This briefing note examines how appropriate lending for energy projects by international […]

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Briefing note

Tax Incentives in the Global South

10/05/2018

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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This joint briefing from Oxfam, Christian Aid, ActionAid and the CBI reflects a growing convergence between businesses and tax advocacy groups on the use of tax incentives in the Global South. It argues that tax incentives can be a useful tool in promoting decent jobs and growth. But it also contends that too often tax incentives […]

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Briefing paper

Contract Disclosure Survey 2018: A review of the contract disclosure policies of 40 oil, gas and mining companies

03/05/2018

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In most countries, subsoil oil, gas and mining resources are the property of citizens and are managed on their behalf by governments. The projects that contracts govern typically last longer than most governments. Estimated oil, gas and mineral rents totalled $1.7 trillion globally in 2015 – 1.7% of global GDP in that year and more […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2018: Assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment

03/05/2018

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance efforts by developed countries are at a critical juncture. There are only two years before the deadline by which developed countries have committed to jointly mobilize $100bn per year to support climate action in developing countries. This $100bn commitment has a pivotal role to play in supporting developing countries to reduce their emissions […]

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Research report

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights (TLWR): Lessons and recommendations from Oxfam’s experiences

30/04/2018

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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The aim of promoting gender equality and women’s rights as integral parts of development efforts is enshrined in the key strategies and plans of many organizations. This is the case for the individual affiliates that comprise Oxfam International (OI), and the Oxfam confederation as a whole. This report sets out to assist Oxfam to better […]

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Research report

Supporting sustainable water service delivery in a protracted crisis: Professionalizing community-led systems in South Sudan

27/04/2018

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This report shares Oxfam’s experience with a water treatment plant community-led operator in Juba, South Sudan. It contributes to the debate on the role that communities can play in the process of managing water supply systems amid protracted crises. The report gives guidance on how to support professionalization of community services by providing business, governance […]

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Briefing paper

Closing the Divide in Malawi: How to reduce inequality and increase prosperity for all

25/04/2018

2 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Inequality between the richest and the rest in Malawi continues to rise, with poverty remaining extreme and endemic. Climate change is compounding the challenges, with recent droughts and floods likely to have worsened poverty, resulting in one in three Malawians relying on humanitarian assistance in 2016. Economic inequality threatens to undermine the hard-fought and important […]

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Case study

Addressing environmental threats and health risks through responsible rice value chain and multi-stakeholder collaboration in Pakistan

18/04/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Rice production is vital to the agriculture sector in Pakistan, especially in Punjab, and the country is a globally important rice exporter. However, common production practices are associated with environmental issues linked to health problems such as skin diseases, and environmental issues such as smog, as well as water and soil pollution. Women comprise most […]

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