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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 […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Flood Response Programme Georgia

01/01/2006

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During the period 25-30 April 2005, a combination of torrential rains and snow melting caused heavy flooding in the Republic of Georgia. The floods caused massive landslides and mudflows that led to the damage and loss of agricultural land; destroyed homes, livestock and water drainage systems; roads and bridges swept away, isolating many communities in […]

Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

Journal article

Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa: where are we now?

01/02/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Pastoralists are marginalised in the Horn of Africa and receive inadequate veterinary services. Under economic structural adjustment programmes, public veterinary services became increasingly ineffective and, in response, community-based NGO programmes were established in some pastoral areas. While these programmes were often considered to be effective, with few exceptions they were small in scale, isolated from […]

Journal article

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

01/07/2009

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

Increasing numbers of corporations are vying to capture one of the largest untapped consumer markets – the world’s poor – in ways that are not only economically profitable but socially responsible. One type of initiative that has gained increased traction is trading partnerships between multinational corporations and women’s informal exchange networks, creating micro-enterprise opportunities that […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Promoting safe, legal water connections in Dandora, Nairobi

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People living in the informal settlement of Dandora in Nairobi often have to walk long distances from their homes to collect water, queue for lengthy periods and pay high prices to vendors. Under the SWIFT programme, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor has been working in partnership with the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company to upgrade the water […]

Showing 328 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Flood Response Programme Georgia

01/01/2006

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During the period 25-30 April 2005, a combination of torrential rains and snow melting caused heavy flooding in the Republic of Georgia. The floods caused massive landslides and mudflows that led to the damage and loss of agricultural land; destroyed homes, livestock and water drainage systems; roads and bridges swept away, isolating many communities in […]

Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

Journal article

Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa: where are we now?

01/02/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Pastoralists are marginalised in the Horn of Africa and receive inadequate veterinary services. Under economic structural adjustment programmes, public veterinary services became increasingly ineffective and, in response, community-based NGO programmes were established in some pastoral areas. While these programmes were often considered to be effective, with few exceptions they were small in scale, isolated from […]

Journal article

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

01/07/2009

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

Increasing numbers of corporations are vying to capture one of the largest untapped consumer markets – the world’s poor – in ways that are not only economically profitable but socially responsible. One type of initiative that has gained increased traction is trading partnerships between multinational corporations and women’s informal exchange networks, creating micro-enterprise opportunities that […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Promoting safe, legal water connections in Dandora, Nairobi

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People living in the informal settlement of Dandora in Nairobi often have to walk long distances from their homes to collect water, queue for lengthy periods and pay high prices to vendors. Under the SWIFT programme, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor has been working in partnership with the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company to upgrade the water […]

Showing 328 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Research report

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of Flood Response Programme Georgia

01/01/2006

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During the period 25-30 April 2005, a combination of torrential rains and snow melting caused heavy flooding in the Republic of Georgia. The floods caused massive landslides and mudflows that led to the damage and loss of agricultural land; destroyed homes, livestock and water drainage systems; roads and bridges swept away, isolating many communities in […]

Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

Journal article

Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa: where are we now?

01/02/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Pastoralists are marginalised in the Horn of Africa and receive inadequate veterinary services. Under economic structural adjustment programmes, public veterinary services became increasingly ineffective and, in response, community-based NGO programmes were established in some pastoral areas. While these programmes were often considered to be effective, with few exceptions they were small in scale, isolated from […]

Journal article

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

01/07/2009

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Lipstick evangelism: avon trading circles and gender empowerment in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

Increasing numbers of corporations are vying to capture one of the largest untapped consumer markets – the world’s poor – in ways that are not only economically profitable but socially responsible. One type of initiative that has gained increased traction is trading partnerships between multinational corporations and women’s informal exchange networks, creating micro-enterprise opportunities that […]

Case study

SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Promoting safe, legal water connections in Dandora, Nairobi

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

People living in the informal settlement of Dandora in Nairobi often have to walk long distances from their homes to collect water, queue for lengthy periods and pay high prices to vendors. Under the SWIFT programme, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor has been working in partnership with the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company to upgrade the water […]