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Journal article

Implementing ILO Child Labour Convention 182: lessons from Honduras

01/02/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Honduras. It highlights key lessons learned from a joint Save the Children Fund-UK and Ministry of Labour project. These lessons are of relevance to similar projects addressing the application of child labour legislation and to projects focusing on institutional […]

Journal article

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

18/03/2020

18 pages long

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Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

Keywords

Overview

Equity in development is most often used to describe something the global North does to or in the global South, rather than as a concept that applies between the North and South. Neither does it take into consideration the issue of creating systems that foster equity between the North and the South, within the context […]

Book

Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

01/01/1993

1 documents

184 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

External support agencies need to adopt a partnership approach to the development of community water supplies if communities are to he successful in managing their own supplies in the long term.

Journal article

Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

18/03/2020

17 pages long

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Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

Keywords

Overview

Unequal power relations exist between the global North and the global South, between those in need of ‘development’ and the development policymakers and practitioners who work with them in projects and programmes intending to meet their needs – and, less often, support those in need to challenge the underlying inequalities that create these inequities. These […]

Case study

Wisdom from Everyday Development: A collection of vignettes from South Africa

01/03/2016

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of stories of change brings together various short vignettes from community based organizations in South Africa under five key themes from programme work in country. The key areas of focus of these stories are: food security and livelihoods; active citizenship; gender and vulnerability; embracing community complexity; and partnerships. These are all crucial areas […]

Briefing paper

Making Aid Work in Lebanon: Promoting aid effectiveness and respect for rights in middle-income countries affected by mass displacement

04/04/2018

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Lebanon currently hosts the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenge and have offered support both in the form of humanitarian assistance and in multi-year development financing. This briefing paper is based on extensive research conducted in partnership with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies […]

Journal article

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing note

Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014: Dismissing democracy, displacing safeguards?

26/02/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (RFCLARR) was enacted in 2013 replacing the land acquisition policies prevalent in India since 1894. The Government of India on December 31, 2014 issued an ordinance making significant changes to the Act including removal of consent clause for acquiring land for […]

Evaluation report

Policy Influence in England: Evaluation of education and youth

26/03/2015

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation was originally commissioned as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. However, due to the limitations of the evaluation this report provides a light-touch evaluation of the impacts of Oxfam’s work in several schools across London and the South East. The research was carried […]

Showing 320 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Implementing ILO Child Labour Convention 182: lessons from Honduras

01/02/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Honduras. It highlights key lessons learned from a joint Save the Children Fund-UK and Ministry of Labour project. These lessons are of relevance to similar projects addressing the application of child labour legislation and to projects focusing on institutional […]

Journal article

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

18/03/2020

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

Keywords

Overview

Equity in development is most often used to describe something the global North does to or in the global South, rather than as a concept that applies between the North and South. Neither does it take into consideration the issue of creating systems that foster equity between the North and the South, within the context […]

Book

Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

01/01/1993

1 documents

184 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

External support agencies need to adopt a partnership approach to the development of community water supplies if communities are to he successful in managing their own supplies in the long term.

Journal article

Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

18/03/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

Keywords

Overview

Unequal power relations exist between the global North and the global South, between those in need of ‘development’ and the development policymakers and practitioners who work with them in projects and programmes intending to meet their needs – and, less often, support those in need to challenge the underlying inequalities that create these inequities. These […]

Case study

Wisdom from Everyday Development: A collection of vignettes from South Africa

01/03/2016

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of stories of change brings together various short vignettes from community based organizations in South Africa under five key themes from programme work in country. The key areas of focus of these stories are: food security and livelihoods; active citizenship; gender and vulnerability; embracing community complexity; and partnerships. These are all crucial areas […]

Briefing paper

Making Aid Work in Lebanon: Promoting aid effectiveness and respect for rights in middle-income countries affected by mass displacement

04/04/2018

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Lebanon currently hosts the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenge and have offered support both in the form of humanitarian assistance and in multi-year development financing. This briefing paper is based on extensive research conducted in partnership with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies […]

Journal article

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing note

Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014: Dismissing democracy, displacing safeguards?

26/02/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (RFCLARR) was enacted in 2013 replacing the land acquisition policies prevalent in India since 1894. The Government of India on December 31, 2014 issued an ordinance making significant changes to the Act including removal of consent clause for acquiring land for […]

Evaluation report

Policy Influence in England: Evaluation of education and youth

26/03/2015

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation was originally commissioned as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. However, due to the limitations of the evaluation this report provides a light-touch evaluation of the impacts of Oxfam’s work in several schools across London and the South East. The research was carried […]

Showing 320 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Implementing ILO Child Labour Convention 182: lessons from Honduras

01/02/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Honduras. It highlights key lessons learned from a joint Save the Children Fund-UK and Ministry of Labour project. These lessons are of relevance to similar projects addressing the application of child labour legislation and to projects focusing on institutional […]

Journal article

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

18/03/2020

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South

Keywords

Overview

Equity in development is most often used to describe something the global North does to or in the global South, rather than as a concept that applies between the North and South. Neither does it take into consideration the issue of creating systems that foster equity between the North and the South, within the context […]

Book

Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies

01/01/1993

1 documents

184 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

External support agencies need to adopt a partnership approach to the development of community water supplies if communities are to he successful in managing their own supplies in the long term.

Journal article

Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

18/03/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development

Keywords

Overview

Unequal power relations exist between the global North and the global South, between those in need of ‘development’ and the development policymakers and practitioners who work with them in projects and programmes intending to meet their needs – and, less often, support those in need to challenge the underlying inequalities that create these inequities. These […]

Case study

Wisdom from Everyday Development: A collection of vignettes from South Africa

01/03/2016

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This collection of stories of change brings together various short vignettes from community based organizations in South Africa under five key themes from programme work in country. The key areas of focus of these stories are: food security and livelihoods; active citizenship; gender and vulnerability; embracing community complexity; and partnerships. These are all crucial areas […]

Briefing paper

Making Aid Work in Lebanon: Promoting aid effectiveness and respect for rights in middle-income countries affected by mass displacement

04/04/2018

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Lebanon currently hosts the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Donors have recognized the scale of the challenge and have offered support both in the form of humanitarian assistance and in multi-year development financing. This briefing paper is based on extensive research conducted in partnership with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies […]

Journal article

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

Briefing paper

Facing Risk: Options and challenges in ensuring that climate/disaster risk finance and insurance deliver for poor people

16/04/2018

4 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reducing the impacts of disasters on poor people is absolutely vital. Climate/disaster risk financing could play a useful role if it is part of an approach that includes risk reduction, if it strengthens social protection, and if it has real participation from civil society. Insurance, as one component of risk financing, could play a supportive […]

Briefing note

Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014: Dismissing democracy, displacing safeguards?

26/02/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (RFCLARR) was enacted in 2013 replacing the land acquisition policies prevalent in India since 1894. The Government of India on December 31, 2014 issued an ordinance making significant changes to the Act including removal of consent clause for acquiring land for […]

Evaluation report

Policy Influence in England: Evaluation of education and youth

26/03/2015

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This evaluation was originally commissioned as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. However, due to the limitations of the evaluation this report provides a light-touch evaluation of the impacts of Oxfam’s work in several schools across London and the South East. The research was carried […]