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Guidelines and toolkits

Mobile Survey Toolkit

27/07/2016

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Surveys form the basis of many data collection exercises run by Oxfam and other organizations, ranging from assessments to ongoing monitoring and evaluation processes. Traditional methods of conducting surveys (often paper-based) can be time-consuming and there are limitations to the type and accuracy of information they collect. Digitalizing these data collection processes ‘ using mobile […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Sharing Oxfam’s Experience of Using Two Approaches for Network Assessment: Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard

29/11/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In this paper, the authors share Oxfam’s experience of using and adapting two approaches to network assessment: Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard (QAS). Network assessments are useful throughout the lifetime of a network for different purposes: at network formation stage, the design of influencing and advocacy interventions and for the monitoring and […]

Journal article

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Beyond the log frame: a new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives

01/02/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How do we move from identifying ethical principles to enhancing development practice? How can donors and NGOs move beyond the reporting of technical outputs to explore less tangible aspects of their health projects: contributions to rebuilding trust, promoting social cohesion, and enhancing good governance at community level? This article considers these questions in relation to […]

Briefing note

Land Rights and Soda Giants: Reviewing Coca-Cola’s and PepsiCo’s land assessments in Brazil

20/10/2016

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

In 2013, Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign highlighted the risks and impacts for communities’ land rights from the sourcing of sugarcane by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and other companies, and called for the companies to commit to demonstrating zero tolerance for land grabs. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo committed to showing ‘zero tolerance’ for land grabs in late 2013 […]

Book

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

12/12/2008

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

Keywords

Overview

Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

‘Strong nets catch fish’: promoting pro-poor partnerships in Bangladesh

01/02/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article describes the experiences of a small Bangladeshi NGO in using actor-oriented tools to focus on key people and partnerships in project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The approach has helped to identify interventions that are context-specific, building on key local actors and indigenous networks, and sensitive to the constraints experienced by the poorest. As […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Mobile Survey Toolkit

27/07/2016

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Surveys form the basis of many data collection exercises run by Oxfam and other organizations, ranging from assessments to ongoing monitoring and evaluation processes. Traditional methods of conducting surveys (often paper-based) can be time-consuming and there are limitations to the type and accuracy of information they collect. Digitalizing these data collection processes ‘ using mobile […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Sharing Oxfam’s Experience of Using Two Approaches for Network Assessment: Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard

29/11/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In this paper, the authors share Oxfam’s experience of using and adapting two approaches to network assessment: Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard (QAS). Network assessments are useful throughout the lifetime of a network for different purposes: at network formation stage, the design of influencing and advocacy interventions and for the monitoring and […]

Journal article

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Beyond the log frame: a new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives

01/02/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How do we move from identifying ethical principles to enhancing development practice? How can donors and NGOs move beyond the reporting of technical outputs to explore less tangible aspects of their health projects: contributions to rebuilding trust, promoting social cohesion, and enhancing good governance at community level? This article considers these questions in relation to […]

Briefing note

Land Rights and Soda Giants: Reviewing Coca-Cola’s and PepsiCo’s land assessments in Brazil

20/10/2016

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

In 2013, Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign highlighted the risks and impacts for communities’ land rights from the sourcing of sugarcane by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and other companies, and called for the companies to commit to demonstrating zero tolerance for land grabs. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo committed to showing ‘zero tolerance’ for land grabs in late 2013 […]

Book

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

12/12/2008

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

Keywords

Overview

Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

‘Strong nets catch fish’: promoting pro-poor partnerships in Bangladesh

01/02/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article describes the experiences of a small Bangladeshi NGO in using actor-oriented tools to focus on key people and partnerships in project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The approach has helped to identify interventions that are context-specific, building on key local actors and indigenous networks, and sensitive to the constraints experienced by the poorest. As […]

Showing 72 matching results from Policy & Practice

Guidelines and toolkits

Mobile Survey Toolkit

27/07/2016

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Surveys form the basis of many data collection exercises run by Oxfam and other organizations, ranging from assessments to ongoing monitoring and evaluation processes. Traditional methods of conducting surveys (often paper-based) can be time-consuming and there are limitations to the type and accuracy of information they collect. Digitalizing these data collection processes ‘ using mobile […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Sharing Oxfam’s Experience of Using Two Approaches for Network Assessment: Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard

29/11/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In this paper, the authors share Oxfam’s experience of using and adapting two approaches to network assessment: Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Qualitative Assessment Scorecard (QAS). Network assessments are useful throughout the lifetime of a network for different purposes: at network formation stage, the design of influencing and advocacy interventions and for the monitoring and […]

Journal article

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that […]

Journal article

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

09/07/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Still learning: a critical reflection on three years of measuring women’s empowerment in Oxfam

Keywords

Overview

In 2011, as part of a broader effort to understand organisational effectiveness, a team within Oxfam GB began implementing impact evaluations on a small sample of projects largely focused on women’s empowerment. The resulting ‘Women’s Empowerment Effectiveness Reviews’ employ a quasi-experimental evaluation design, and have been undertaken in more than a dozen sites over three […]

Journal article

Beyond the log frame: a new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives

01/02/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How do we move from identifying ethical principles to enhancing development practice? How can donors and NGOs move beyond the reporting of technical outputs to explore less tangible aspects of their health projects: contributions to rebuilding trust, promoting social cohesion, and enhancing good governance at community level? This article considers these questions in relation to […]

Briefing note

Land Rights and Soda Giants: Reviewing Coca-Cola’s and PepsiCo’s land assessments in Brazil

20/10/2016

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

In 2013, Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign highlighted the risks and impacts for communities’ land rights from the sourcing of sugarcane by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and other companies, and called for the companies to commit to demonstrating zero tolerance for land grabs. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo committed to showing ‘zero tolerance’ for land grabs in late 2013 […]

Book

Improving the Safety of Civilians: A protection training pack

12/12/2008

1 documents

176 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

01/05/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Analysing changing gender relations: methodological challenges for gender planning

Keywords

Overview

Major conceptual advances in thinking about gender relations suggest the need to reassess conventional gender analyses within the context of development interventions. Evidence from development practice supports the conviction that ‘targeting’ can be undermined by processes of gendered bargaining around project interventions. Academic research points to key problems and potential methods for looking at changes […]

Journal article

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centre’s experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases […]

Journal article

‘Strong nets catch fish’: promoting pro-poor partnerships in Bangladesh

01/02/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This article describes the experiences of a small Bangladeshi NGO in using actor-oriented tools to focus on key people and partnerships in project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The approach has helped to identify interventions that are context-specific, building on key local actors and indigenous networks, and sensitive to the constraints experienced by the poorest. As […]