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Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Participatory Disaster Preparation and Mitigation Project in Tien Giang and Dong Thap Provinces, Vietnam

01/06/2008

3 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In recent years cyclical floods affecting the Mekong delta have become more serious and complex, resulting in significant loss of life and affecting food and income security. This five year project (2005-2010) focuses on 24 communes in 5 districts within the two most flood prone provinces in the delta; Tien Giang and Dong Thap. It […]

Journal article

Relief and rehabilitation work in Mozambique: Institutional capacity and NGO executional strategies

01/11/1991

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The nature of the Mozambique ’emergencies and its institutional context pose a significant challenge to NGO aid strategies, as these organisations seek to reconcile objectives of short-term effectiveness and accountability with goals of long-term capacity-building and sustainability. The increasing emphasis on the former within the Zambezia Province Emergency Programme may be prejudicing the government’s capacity […]

Journal article

The rise and fall of donor funding for advocacy NGOs: understanding the impact

01/03/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGOs in Asian countries often experience fluctuations in funding because of the constantly shifting priorities of their international donors. Without domestic sources, Asian NGOs are forced to re-align their priorities with donor interests in order to compete for funding. In the case of advocacy NGOs, the resulting asymmetry in donor-grantee relations often leads to a […]

Journal article

Making aid effective at the community level: the AMREF experience

01/09/2011

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Effective use of donor aid is critical in achieving the sixth Millennium Development Goal – reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015. The Paris Declaration of 2005 identified five key principles for aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, mutual accountability and managing for results. As civil society organisations play a critical role in implementing HIV/AIDS interventions, it […]

Journal article

Coping with participation in small island states: the case of aid in Tuvalu

01/04/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The aid effectiveness agenda has placed much emphasis on issues of recipient ownership, alignment, and donor harmonisation. It has affected the policies and practices of many donor agencies and promoted a drive to consult widely with partners in governments and civil society and encourage their active involvement in aid-funded development activities. Yet, when we look […]

Research report

Information Flows Faster than Water: How livelihoods were saved in Pakistan’s 2010 floods

30/05/2014

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods (CBDRML) Programme sought to reduce the loss of life and livelihoods and promote resilience in disaster-prone communities in Pakistan. When in 2010 the country suffered the worst floods in its history, the CBDRML Programme was already in place, operated by partner organizations in four districts. In December 2011 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia: Evaluation of women’s beekeeping and access to financial services

21/11/2014

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in November 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Facilitating Access to Financial Services for Women Beekeepers in […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Malawi: Building the resilience and enhancing the adaptive capacity of women and men to climate change and climate variability

21/11/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in March 2014, which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of 8,000 households of poor women and men […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Haiti: Small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince

21/11/2014

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in February/March 2014 that examined the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project focused on small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and aimed to improve food security […]

Showing 314 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Participatory Disaster Preparation and Mitigation Project in Tien Giang and Dong Thap Provinces, Vietnam

01/06/2008

3 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In recent years cyclical floods affecting the Mekong delta have become more serious and complex, resulting in significant loss of life and affecting food and income security. This five year project (2005-2010) focuses on 24 communes in 5 districts within the two most flood prone provinces in the delta; Tien Giang and Dong Thap. It […]

Journal article

Relief and rehabilitation work in Mozambique: Institutional capacity and NGO executional strategies

01/11/1991

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The nature of the Mozambique ’emergencies and its institutional context pose a significant challenge to NGO aid strategies, as these organisations seek to reconcile objectives of short-term effectiveness and accountability with goals of long-term capacity-building and sustainability. The increasing emphasis on the former within the Zambezia Province Emergency Programme may be prejudicing the government’s capacity […]

Journal article

The rise and fall of donor funding for advocacy NGOs: understanding the impact

01/03/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGOs in Asian countries often experience fluctuations in funding because of the constantly shifting priorities of their international donors. Without domestic sources, Asian NGOs are forced to re-align their priorities with donor interests in order to compete for funding. In the case of advocacy NGOs, the resulting asymmetry in donor-grantee relations often leads to a […]

Journal article

Making aid effective at the community level: the AMREF experience

01/09/2011

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Effective use of donor aid is critical in achieving the sixth Millennium Development Goal – reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015. The Paris Declaration of 2005 identified five key principles for aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, mutual accountability and managing for results. As civil society organisations play a critical role in implementing HIV/AIDS interventions, it […]

Journal article

Coping with participation in small island states: the case of aid in Tuvalu

01/04/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The aid effectiveness agenda has placed much emphasis on issues of recipient ownership, alignment, and donor harmonisation. It has affected the policies and practices of many donor agencies and promoted a drive to consult widely with partners in governments and civil society and encourage their active involvement in aid-funded development activities. Yet, when we look […]

Research report

Information Flows Faster than Water: How livelihoods were saved in Pakistan’s 2010 floods

30/05/2014

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods (CBDRML) Programme sought to reduce the loss of life and livelihoods and promote resilience in disaster-prone communities in Pakistan. When in 2010 the country suffered the worst floods in its history, the CBDRML Programme was already in place, operated by partner organizations in four districts. In December 2011 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia: Evaluation of women’s beekeeping and access to financial services

21/11/2014

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in November 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Facilitating Access to Financial Services for Women Beekeepers in […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Malawi: Building the resilience and enhancing the adaptive capacity of women and men to climate change and climate variability

21/11/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in March 2014, which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of 8,000 households of poor women and men […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Haiti: Small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince

21/11/2014

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in February/March 2014 that examined the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project focused on small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and aimed to improve food security […]

Showing 314 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Participatory Disaster Preparation and Mitigation Project in Tien Giang and Dong Thap Provinces, Vietnam

01/06/2008

3 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In recent years cyclical floods affecting the Mekong delta have become more serious and complex, resulting in significant loss of life and affecting food and income security. This five year project (2005-2010) focuses on 24 communes in 5 districts within the two most flood prone provinces in the delta; Tien Giang and Dong Thap. It […]

Journal article

Relief and rehabilitation work in Mozambique: Institutional capacity and NGO executional strategies

01/11/1991

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The nature of the Mozambique ’emergencies and its institutional context pose a significant challenge to NGO aid strategies, as these organisations seek to reconcile objectives of short-term effectiveness and accountability with goals of long-term capacity-building and sustainability. The increasing emphasis on the former within the Zambezia Province Emergency Programme may be prejudicing the government’s capacity […]

Journal article

The rise and fall of donor funding for advocacy NGOs: understanding the impact

01/03/2008

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGOs in Asian countries often experience fluctuations in funding because of the constantly shifting priorities of their international donors. Without domestic sources, Asian NGOs are forced to re-align their priorities with donor interests in order to compete for funding. In the case of advocacy NGOs, the resulting asymmetry in donor-grantee relations often leads to a […]

Journal article

Making aid effective at the community level: the AMREF experience

01/09/2011

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Effective use of donor aid is critical in achieving the sixth Millennium Development Goal – reversing the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2015. The Paris Declaration of 2005 identified five key principles for aid effectiveness: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, mutual accountability and managing for results. As civil society organisations play a critical role in implementing HIV/AIDS interventions, it […]

Journal article

Coping with participation in small island states: the case of aid in Tuvalu

01/04/2012

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The aid effectiveness agenda has placed much emphasis on issues of recipient ownership, alignment, and donor harmonisation. It has affected the policies and practices of many donor agencies and promoted a drive to consult widely with partners in governments and civil society and encourage their active involvement in aid-funded development activities. Yet, when we look […]

Research report

Information Flows Faster than Water: How livelihoods were saved in Pakistan’s 2010 floods

30/05/2014

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods (CBDRML) Programme sought to reduce the loss of life and livelihoods and promote resilience in disaster-prone communities in Pakistan. When in 2010 the country suffered the worst floods in its history, the CBDRML Programme was already in place, operated by partner organizations in four districts. In December 2011 […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia: Evaluation of women’s beekeeping and access to financial services

21/11/2014

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the women’s empowerment thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in November 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Facilitating Access to Financial Services for Women Beekeepers in […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Malawi: Building the resilience and enhancing the adaptive capacity of women and men to climate change and climate variability

21/11/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in March 2014, which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of 8,000 households of poor women and men […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Haiti: Small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince

21/11/2014

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in February/March 2014 that examined the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project focused on small-scale urban farming in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and aimed to improve food security […]