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Mum’s Magic Hands Training Guide: Training trainers for handwashing promotion in emergencies

29/06/2018

3 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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The Mum’s Magic Hands (MMH) programme is a set of promotional activities designed to increase the practice of handwashing with soap in emergencies. It was developed by Oxfam in partnership with Unilever’s Lifebuoy soap and Unilever’s Chief Sustainability Office using the most common emotional motivators (nurture and affiliation) found across three Asian countries. See the […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

‘Mum’s Magic Hands’ Programme Resources

29/06/2018

4 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Mum’s Magic Hands’ programme resources for rapid response include materials to run meetings with groups (storyboards and images of handwashing with soap) and visuals for making posters and stickers to remind target groups of the importance of handwashing with soap. The storyboard presentation includes story scripts and images which can be printed out to tell […]

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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Resilience: A companion guide

19/06/2018

3 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This companion guide complements Oxfam’s Framework for Resilient Development, The Future is a Choice. It provides practical guidance on how to design and implement resilience-sensitive monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) systems in interventions that aim to strengthen resilience. The guide focuses on how to assess progress on enhancing resilience capacities and resilient development. It provides practitioners […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

WASH Market-Based Programming in Emergencies: Overview

01/06/2018

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Working with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) markets in humanitarian emergencies requires an understanding of market systems, and the interactions between users and these systems. Aid responses can significantly affect local markets for WASH supplies and services ‘and aid that is not market-aware may cost more, put suppliers out of business, raise prices and undermine […]

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Working with WASH Market Systems in Emergencies

01/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Working with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) markets requires an understanding of market systems and the interactions between users and these systems. An understanding of the demand for WASH commodities prior to and during emergencies is also important in the design and implementation of humanitarian WASH programmes. This briefing is part of the WASH and […]

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Types of Market-Based Programming to Strengthen Emergency Responses

01/06/2018

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Market-based programming in emergencies which uses, supports or develops local market systems is increasingly used by humanitarian agencies to meet the needs of crisis-affected communities. This briefing in the WASH and Markets in Crisis series describes different types of WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) market-based programming used in pre-crisis, emergency or post-crisis contexts, giving examples […]

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Using Market Mapping and Analysis to Develop Market-Based Programmes

01/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Market mapping and analysis, both in pre-crisis contexts and during emergencies, is an important and integral step towards the development and implementation of market-based programmes. This briefing in the WASH and Markets in Crisis series focuses on a five-stage approach that forms the basis of engagement with key stakeholders for the design and implementation of […]

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Organizational Requirements and Capacity Building for Market-Based Programming

01/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Market analysis and programming requires organizations to take on board new approaches and ways of working. This calls for new staff expertise and partnerships with organizations experienced in working with market systems. This briefing in the WASH and Markets in Crisis series identifies organizational considerations with respect to market-based programming, particularly human resources. It highlights […]

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Monitoring and Evaluating Market-Based Programmes

01/06/2018

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Monitoring and evaluation of market-based programmes is essential to assess the impact of humanitarian interventions on the lives of people affected by disaster or crises. It enables organizations to track progress, discover unplanned effects of programmes and adjust accordingly. This briefing in the WASH and Markets in Crisis series proposes a framework of indicators to […]

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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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