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Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

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This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

Journal article

Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]

Research report

The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

26/05/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From May 2021 to January 2022, Oxfam, in partnership with Sejajar Indonesia, the Tamdeen Youth Foundation in Yemen, and the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC) in Palestine, convened a total of 10 learning series through online convenings on local humanitarian leadership (LHL). Approximately 450 people participated, of whom 60% were from local and national NGOs […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Tanzania: Fahamu, Ongea Sikilizwa / Informed, Speaking and Heard project

31/12/2016

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in December 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The Fahamu Ongea Silikizwa (Informed, Speaking, and Heard) project was developed to respond to community awareness […]

Evaluation report

Final Evaluation: Sanctuary in Wales project

27/10/2015

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

The Sanctuary in Wales Project delivered opportunities for women seeking sanctuary (asylum-seekers and refugees) in Wales between 2012 and 2015. Oxfam Cymru coordinated the three-year project in the four asylum dispersal areas of Wales, working in partnership with Oasis Cardiff in Cardiff, African Community Centre in Swansea, Displaced People in Action and Bethel Community Church […]

Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

Showing 328 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

Journal article

Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]

Research report

The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

26/05/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From May 2021 to January 2022, Oxfam, in partnership with Sejajar Indonesia, the Tamdeen Youth Foundation in Yemen, and the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC) in Palestine, convened a total of 10 learning series through online convenings on local humanitarian leadership (LHL). Approximately 450 people participated, of whom 60% were from local and national NGOs […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Tanzania: Fahamu, Ongea Sikilizwa / Informed, Speaking and Heard project

31/12/2016

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in December 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The Fahamu Ongea Silikizwa (Informed, Speaking, and Heard) project was developed to respond to community awareness […]

Evaluation report

Final Evaluation: Sanctuary in Wales project

27/10/2015

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

The Sanctuary in Wales Project delivered opportunities for women seeking sanctuary (asylum-seekers and refugees) in Wales between 2012 and 2015. Oxfam Cymru coordinated the three-year project in the four asylum dispersal areas of Wales, working in partnership with Oasis Cardiff in Cardiff, African Community Centre in Swansea, Displaced People in Action and Bethel Community Church […]

Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

Showing 328 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

Journal article

Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]

Research report

The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

26/05/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

From May 2021 to January 2022, Oxfam, in partnership with Sejajar Indonesia, the Tamdeen Youth Foundation in Yemen, and the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC) in Palestine, convened a total of 10 learning series through online convenings on local humanitarian leadership (LHL). Approximately 450 people participated, of whom 60% were from local and national NGOs […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Case study

Women Dairy Producers in Colombia: Women and dairy sector enterprises leverage private and public sector investment at scale

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study explores a partnership between a private company foundation, Oxfam and farmer cooperatives, which combined targeted training for women, finance, a market opportunity and addressing care work, resulting in increased recognition of women as dairy farmers and demonstrating that smallholders could be commercial suppliers. The success of the project has changed government credit […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Tanzania: Fahamu, Ongea Sikilizwa / Informed, Speaking and Heard project

31/12/2016

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2014/15. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in December 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The Fahamu Ongea Silikizwa (Informed, Speaking, and Heard) project was developed to respond to community awareness […]

Evaluation report

Final Evaluation: Sanctuary in Wales project

27/10/2015

3 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

Keywords

Overview

The Sanctuary in Wales Project delivered opportunities for women seeking sanctuary (asylum-seekers and refugees) in Wales between 2012 and 2015. Oxfam Cymru coordinated the three-year project in the four asylum dispersal areas of Wales, working in partnership with Oasis Cardiff in Cardiff, African Community Centre in Swansea, Displaced People in Action and Bethel Community Church […]

Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]