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Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

12/12/2008

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

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This training pack is intended to help humanitarian workers to improve the safety of civilians being subjected to violence, coercion, or deliberate deprivation. The pack includes modules on: What is protection? Planning a programme, Mainstreaming protection and Programming for protection. The activity sessions within the modules cover topics as diverse as international standards for civilian […]

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From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

23/06/2008

2 documents

540 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty […]

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The Urgency of Now: A small book about the madness of inequality and poverty: how they’re wrecking people’s lives and why doing something about them will make things better for us all

23/06/2008

2 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Debt

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The urgency of now is essential reading for development, international politics, economics, and business students, activists and campaigners, and anyone interested in globalisation or development issues. In fact it’s for anyone with a questioning mind. The urgency of now accompanies Oxfam’s publication From Poverty to Power.

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HIV and AIDS

31/03/2008

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

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This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea. The impacts of HIV on women and men across the world are devastating and wide-ranging. Girls may […]

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The Guide to the HAP Standard: Humanitarian accountability and quality management

19/03/2008

1 documents

248 pages long

Languages: English

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This practical guide provides everything needed for humanitarian agencies and practitioners who want to improve their accountability and quality systems and who are aiming for HAP certification. It will also be useful to government departments involved in disaster management, and to international bodies interested in accountability and good practice in the humanitarian sector.

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Building National Campaigns: Activists, alliances, and how change happens

23/11/2007

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Poor-quality employment undermines sustainable development and gender equality throughout the world. Yet, the number of people employed in precarious jobs, with unstable income, little access to benefits, and with fewer opportunities to claim their rights, is increasing, with many workers (especially women) remaining trapped in poverty. High-profile campaigning has become an important strategy for civil-society […]

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Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific: The threat from climate change to human development and the environment

19/11/2007

1 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world’s population, around four billion people, live. The latest global scientific consensus from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century. Warming will […]

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Gender-Based Violence

30/09/2007

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

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Gender-based violence

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This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle gender-based violence in various sectors, world regions, and socio-political contexts. Articles cover a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including femicide, or the murder of women because they are women, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or […]

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Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to planning, implementing and delivering literacy initiatives

30/09/2007

1 documents

300 pages long

Languages: English

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Development methods

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There are many different ways to manage adult literacy programmes. This book will help those who plan and develop literacy initiatives make their decisions based on an understanding of ideas, values, and principles. It explains how to take into account the local context, and the purposes of learners, the local community, and other key stakeholders. […]

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Producer Organisations: A practical guide to developing collective rural enterprises

30/08/2007

2 documents

200 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Small-scale producers face huge challenges in today’s world. They have to adopt a market-oriented approach if they want to compete in and benefit from local and global markets. This book opens with an explanation of why collective action in the form of producer organisations is a key strategy for increasing their access to and power […]

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