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Research report

Gender Visible: Learning about gender integration in the Right to Food Programme

31/12/2020

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2018, the Oxfam Novib Right to Food Programme (R2F) team formulated an ambitious threefold learning goal around the integration of gender. First, it wanted to capture the diversity in the way the programme integrated gender. Secondly, it aimed to learn what is at the roots of this diversity. Lastly, it aimed to boost further […]

Briefing paper

Prescription for Poverty: Drug companies as tax dodgers, price gougers, and influence peddlers

18/09/2018

7 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical corporations – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in overseas tax havens. This activity could deprive developing countries of more than $100 million every year – money that is urgently needed to meet the health needs of people in these countries – […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

Journal article

Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Evaluation report

Using Community-Centred Approaches to Build Resilience at Scale

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support community-centred approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, delivering outcomes for people who are at risk from disasters and climate change. It highlights how such efforts have improved accountability between communities and governments to achieve impacts beyond the local level, influencing […]

Case study

Activismo juvenil contra la desigualdades: Peru

01/05/2020

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Este estudio de caso visibiliza los alcances y lecciones aprendidas del modelo de incidencia juvenil promovido por Oxfam en Perú en dos proyectos: “Escuela: de la Protesta a la Propuesta” del Foro Juvenil de Izquierda (FJI) y “Jóvenes 2018-19” de la Red Interquorum (Red IQ). Estos proyectos proporcionan interesantes perspectivas en cuanto a la importancia […]

Case study

Adapting Programming to an Urban Environment in Pakistan

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme seeks to ensure that women, men and young people living in poverty in cities in Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan have improved access to decent income opportunities and a dignified, healthy habitat. To achieve this goal, the programme is structured around three pillars: bringing together citizens to contribute to local governance; improving […]

Book

Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan

21/12/2020

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that […]

Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]

Showing 114 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Gender Visible: Learning about gender integration in the Right to Food Programme

31/12/2020

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2018, the Oxfam Novib Right to Food Programme (R2F) team formulated an ambitious threefold learning goal around the integration of gender. First, it wanted to capture the diversity in the way the programme integrated gender. Secondly, it aimed to learn what is at the roots of this diversity. Lastly, it aimed to boost further […]

Briefing paper

Prescription for Poverty: Drug companies as tax dodgers, price gougers, and influence peddlers

18/09/2018

7 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical corporations – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in overseas tax havens. This activity could deprive developing countries of more than $100 million every year – money that is urgently needed to meet the health needs of people in these countries – […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

Journal article

Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Evaluation report

Using Community-Centred Approaches to Build Resilience at Scale

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support community-centred approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, delivering outcomes for people who are at risk from disasters and climate change. It highlights how such efforts have improved accountability between communities and governments to achieve impacts beyond the local level, influencing […]

Case study

Activismo juvenil contra la desigualdades: Peru

01/05/2020

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Este estudio de caso visibiliza los alcances y lecciones aprendidas del modelo de incidencia juvenil promovido por Oxfam en Perú en dos proyectos: “Escuela: de la Protesta a la Propuesta” del Foro Juvenil de Izquierda (FJI) y “Jóvenes 2018-19” de la Red Interquorum (Red IQ). Estos proyectos proporcionan interesantes perspectivas en cuanto a la importancia […]

Case study

Adapting Programming to an Urban Environment in Pakistan

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme seeks to ensure that women, men and young people living in poverty in cities in Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan have improved access to decent income opportunities and a dignified, healthy habitat. To achieve this goal, the programme is structured around three pillars: bringing together citizens to contribute to local governance; improving […]

Book

Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan

21/12/2020

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that […]

Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]

Showing 114 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

Gender Visible: Learning about gender integration in the Right to Food Programme

31/12/2020

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2018, the Oxfam Novib Right to Food Programme (R2F) team formulated an ambitious threefold learning goal around the integration of gender. First, it wanted to capture the diversity in the way the programme integrated gender. Secondly, it aimed to learn what is at the roots of this diversity. Lastly, it aimed to boost further […]

Briefing paper

Prescription for Poverty: Drug companies as tax dodgers, price gougers, and influence peddlers

18/09/2018

7 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical corporations – Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer – systematically hide their profits in overseas tax havens. This activity could deprive developing countries of more than $100 million every year – money that is urgently needed to meet the health needs of people in these countries – […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction: A training pack

08/07/2011

5 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence how each will be affected by different hazards, and how they will cope with and recover from disaster. Unequal power relations between women and men […]

Journal article

Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Evaluation report

Using Community-Centred Approaches to Build Resilience at Scale

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support community-centred approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, delivering outcomes for people who are at risk from disasters and climate change. It highlights how such efforts have improved accountability between communities and governments to achieve impacts beyond the local level, influencing […]

Case study

Activismo juvenil contra la desigualdades: Peru

01/05/2020

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Este estudio de caso visibiliza los alcances y lecciones aprendidas del modelo de incidencia juvenil promovido por Oxfam en Perú en dos proyectos: “Escuela: de la Protesta a la Propuesta” del Foro Juvenil de Izquierda (FJI) y “Jóvenes 2018-19” de la Red Interquorum (Red IQ). Estos proyectos proporcionan interesantes perspectivas en cuanto a la importancia […]

Case study

Adapting Programming to an Urban Environment in Pakistan

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme seeks to ensure that women, men and young people living in poverty in cities in Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan have improved access to decent income opportunities and a dignified, healthy habitat. To achieve this goal, the programme is structured around three pillars: bringing together citizens to contribute to local governance; improving […]

Book

Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan

21/12/2020

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

As part of Oxfam’s Strategic Partnership project ‘Towards a Worldwide Influencing Network’, the graphic story Zahra: A policewoman in Afghanistan was developed by Jorrit Kamminga, Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. The graphic story is part of a long-standing Oxfam campaign that […]

Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

Journal article

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

01/11/1997

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Commercial sex and the single girl: women’s empowerment through economic development in Thailand

Keywords

Overview

The author presents the views of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA – Thailand’s largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (in Thailand) type of `manual labour’. Research has shown that poverty is the major factor cited by voluntary commercial […]