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Research report

Tackling Gender Inequality in the Cocoa Supply Chain: Are big chocolate companies delivering on their global commitments in Ghana?

11/02/2022

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2013, leading chocolate companies Mars, Mondelēz, and Nestlé made global commitments to reduce gender inequalities across their cocoa supply chain. This report follows up on these commitments and presents findings on the gender equality programs Mars, Mondelēz, and Nestlé – and their agribusiness suppliers – are implementing in the cocoa supply chain of Ghana, […]

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Research report

The Inequality Crisis in East Africa: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

09/02/2022

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions into poverty in East Africa, and worsened inequality. The economic crisis continues, due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that only 4% of East African citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 71% in high-income countries by mid-January2022. Many East African governments were already hamstrung by high […]

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Research report

Carbon Pricing: A primer for Oxfam

03/02/2022

1 documents

102 pages long

Languages: English

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Carbon pricing is not a new phenomenon. Backed by widespread consensus in the economic literature that it is the single most effective policy for addressing climate change, it has been the staple policy priority of many environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet carbon pricing has seen limited uptake. Efforts to price carbon have failed in a […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19

17/01/2022

8 documents

60 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as well as the inequality that exists between countries—are tearing our world apart. This is not by chance, but choice: “economic violence” is perpetrated […]

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Briefing paper

Rising to the Challenge: The case for permanent progressive policies to tackle Asia’s coronavirus and inequality crisis

12/01/2022

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia remains in the grip of a coronavirus crisis that is supercharging already high levels of inequality. While the richest and most privileged can protect their health and increase their wealth further, the pandemic is putting the lives and livelihoods of the region's poorest and most vulnerable people at risk. Women, poor and low-skilled workers, […]

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Research report

Gender-responsive Budgeting in Tanzania

29/12/2021

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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The Constitution and laws of the United Republic of Tanzania require the use of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) to promote gender-balanced and integrated national economic plans. It is at the village level where community budget needs are identified, though women’s needs are often marginalized. Although women are best at articulating their needs, their voices are seldom […]

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Research report

Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Agriculture in Ethiopia

29/12/2021

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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The gender division of labor in Ethiopia hinders women smallholders’ efforts to improve productivity to close the gap with men’s farms. There is substantial evidence that where women have access to the same inputs and training as men, they can close that gap. The government’s national development plan identifies agriculture as the main driver of […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Social Norms Diagnostic Tool: Young Women’s Economic Justice

20/12/2021

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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The tool’s methodology is rooted in a feminist and youth-led participatory action research approach to diagnosing social norms. It uses participatory and transformative methods to engage young people and other community members not just as research participants, but as agents of change identifying solutions to arising issues. The exercises recognize and examine unequal power inequalities […]

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Briefing paper

Funding the ERP: Analysis of funding for the implementation of the Education Response Plan (ERP) for refugees and host communities

14/12/2021

1 documents

Languages: English

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This paper is an analytical review of the financial performance of the Education Response Plan for refugees by the end of June 2020. This analysis gives an in-depth review of the education financing for Government of Uganda supported schools in refugee settlements in Lamwo District Local Government. The total contribution of the Government of Uganda […]

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Briefing paper

Le Leadership Humanitaire Local au Burkina Faso : Passer de belles paroles aux actes

13/12/2021

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Ce rapport s’intéresse d’abord aux causes et défis qui permettent d’expliquer la marginalisation des acteurs locaux en faisant notamment remonter leurs perceptions. Une deuxième partie met en valeur les bonnes pratiques existantes et proposer des actions concrètes pour renforcer la place des acteurs locaux et éventuellement le leadership humanitaire local (LHL) dans la réponse au […]

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