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Evaluation report

Synthesis Report for Female Food Heroes (FFH) Engagement Strategy in Nigeria & Ethiopia

30/08/2025

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This synthesis report consolidates findings from two external evaluations of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) initiative in Nigeria and Ethiopia, conducted in 2024–2025. Since its launch in 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers, enhancing their leadership, visibility, and contributions to food security, gender justice, and rural livelihoods. The evaluations found that […]

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 […]

Webpage

Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

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 […]

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

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 […]

Showing 80 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Synthesis Report for Female Food Heroes (FFH) Engagement Strategy in Nigeria & Ethiopia

30/08/2025

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This synthesis report consolidates findings from two external evaluations of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) initiative in Nigeria and Ethiopia, conducted in 2024–2025. Since its launch in 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers, enhancing their leadership, visibility, and contributions to food security, gender justice, and rural livelihoods. The evaluations found that […]

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 […]

Webpage

Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

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 […]

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

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 […]

Showing 80 matching results from Policy & Practice

Evaluation report

Synthesis Report for Female Food Heroes (FFH) Engagement Strategy in Nigeria & Ethiopia

30/08/2025

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This synthesis report consolidates findings from two external evaluations of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) initiative in Nigeria and Ethiopia, conducted in 2024–2025. Since its launch in 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers, enhancing their leadership, visibility, and contributions to food security, gender justice, and rural livelihoods. The evaluations found that […]

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 […]

Webpage

Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

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 […]

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

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 […]