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Briefing note

Carbon inequality in 2030: Per capita consumption emissions and the 1.5⁰C goal

05/11/2021

2 documents

Languages: English, French

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The world’s richest 1% are set to have per capita consumption emissions in 2030 that are still 30 times higher than the global per capita level compatible with the 1.5⁰C goal of the Paris Agreement, while the footprints of the poorest half of the world population are set to remain several times below that level. […]

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Research report

The West Africa Inequality Crisis: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

14/10/2021

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and worsened the depth of inequality in West Africa. It has pushed millions into poverty. There is no end in sight due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that less than 4% of West Africans had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as at September 2021, compared with 52% […]

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Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

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Research report

Risk Factors for Gender-based Violence: The Case of Indian Agriculture

08/10/2021

1 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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The study documents the incidence of domestic and workplace violence among Indian female agricultural workers, and the factors that put these women at risk of violence. Multiple years of nationally representative domestic violence data are analyzed, focusing on agricultural laborers. This analysis is supplemented by a literature review on working conditions for female tea plantation […]

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Discussion paper

Women, Voice and Power: How transformative feminist leadership is challenging inequalities and the root causes of extreme vulnerability

06/10/2021

5 documents

52 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The evidence can no longer be ignored: when women and feminist activists are able to use their collective power to challenge inequalities, they are having a transformational impact. From women’s rights organizations and movements breaking down harmful social norms, to political leaders advancing highly progressive policies, there is a growing body of evidence from feminist […]

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Briefing paper

Food for Thought: Investing in a sustainable food system

22/09/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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The focus on profit maximization at the expense of workers, farmers, and women have helped companies reap huge profit margins in the short-term, but as COVID-19 has revealed, it has come at the cost of rights violations. Such costs are no longer considered an acceptable business risk. As human rights gains prominence in investor-company engagement, […]

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Briefing paper

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

20/09/2021

6 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Care work needs to be recognized, shared and invested in now more than ever given that progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Achieve Gender Equality – is behind target and COVID-19 has created additional challenges with increases in care work, poverty and precariousness that could reverse gains made in gender equality and poverty […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Planning and Preparing to Exit Communities in Community-Based Protection Programming

17/09/2021

4 documents

6 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on planning and preparing to exit communities in community-based protection programming forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics capacity strengthening, community engagement, community protection structures, exit strategy, monitoring, and coaching and sustainability.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Theory of Change for Community-Based Protection Programmes

17/09/2021

4 documents

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on developing a theory of change for community-based protection programmes forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics protection analysis and theory of change.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Supporting and Accompanying Community-Based Protection Structures

17/09/2021

4 documents

3 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on supporting and accompanying community-based protection structures forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics capacity strengthening, community protection structures, exit strategy, material support, monitoring and coaching, and sustainability.

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