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Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Briefing paper

Moral Hazard? ‘Mega’ public-private partnerships in African agriculture

01/09/2014

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

African governments are increasingly turning to partnerships with donors and multinational companies to stimulate investment in agriculture, after decades of neglect. Such public–private partnerships (PPPs) ‘at scale’ offer the allure of increased capital and technology, rises in productivity and foreign exchange earnings. In this briefing paper Oxfam assesses the effectiveness and potential of these mega-PPPs as […]

Evaluation report

Programme Partnership Arrangement Evaluation 2014: A primary research feedback report

10/03/2015

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is one of Oxfam’s most strategically important partners. The Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) is a major element of Oxfam’s relationship with DFID, providing valuable opportunities for collaboration and engagement, as well as financial support for Oxfam’s work. This feedback report covers Coffey International’s primary research with Oxfam GB as […]

Case study

Empowering Grassroots Women Through Transformational Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

24/10/2017

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) programme works to promote women’s economic empowerment in agricultural value chains. The agricultural sector is heavily reliant on women workers, but these women do not have equal access to resources – only 12 percent of the three million landowners in Asia are women, […]

Education resource

Building Successful School Partnerships: A guide for schools

01/01/2006

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

School partnerships have the potential to excite your learners about the wider world, broaden their understanding of life in other countries and instil a desire to create positive change. This guide outlines the cornerstones of establishing great ties and is filled with case studies and practical tips to help your school reap the rewards. Grasp […]

Journal article

Canterbury to Cameroon: a new partnership between faiths and the World Bank

01/08/2005

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could have a significant impact on development efforts, but dialogue between them appears impotent. That […]

Journal article

Partnerships, learning, and development: a case study from Ghana

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Decades of development practice suggest the fundamental importance of improving aid-delivery systems and stakeholder competence in order to improve the well-being of poor people. However, it is questionable whether the aid system is able to change its attitudes and values through such partnerships in a way that will do this. This paper suggests that for […]

Journal article

Money, power, and donor-NGO partnerships

01/05/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The term ‘partnership’ can be considered something of a Trojan Horse, disguising the reality of the complex relationships in imbalances of power and inequality, often expressed through the control of one ‘partner’ over the other. With particular reference to the experience of a small, UK-based NGO working in Uganda (Hives Save Lives – Africa), this […]

Journal article

Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil

01/11/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since 1996, CTA-ZM, a local Brazilian NGO, has been developing better ways to understand its work on pro-poor institutional transformation in Minas Gerais. It operates within a ‘messy partnership’ which includes farmer trade unions, associations, social movements, and academic institutions. The combined challenge of institutional transformation and messy partnerships has made it clear that mainstream […]

Research report

Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

03/11/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Briefing paper

Moral Hazard? ‘Mega’ public-private partnerships in African agriculture

01/09/2014

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

African governments are increasingly turning to partnerships with donors and multinational companies to stimulate investment in agriculture, after decades of neglect. Such public–private partnerships (PPPs) ‘at scale’ offer the allure of increased capital and technology, rises in productivity and foreign exchange earnings. In this briefing paper Oxfam assesses the effectiveness and potential of these mega-PPPs as […]

Evaluation report

Programme Partnership Arrangement Evaluation 2014: A primary research feedback report

10/03/2015

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is one of Oxfam’s most strategically important partners. The Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) is a major element of Oxfam’s relationship with DFID, providing valuable opportunities for collaboration and engagement, as well as financial support for Oxfam’s work. This feedback report covers Coffey International’s primary research with Oxfam GB as […]

Case study

Empowering Grassroots Women Through Transformational Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

24/10/2017

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) programme works to promote women’s economic empowerment in agricultural value chains. The agricultural sector is heavily reliant on women workers, but these women do not have equal access to resources – only 12 percent of the three million landowners in Asia are women, […]

Education resource

Building Successful School Partnerships: A guide for schools

01/01/2006

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

School partnerships have the potential to excite your learners about the wider world, broaden their understanding of life in other countries and instil a desire to create positive change. This guide outlines the cornerstones of establishing great ties and is filled with case studies and practical tips to help your school reap the rewards. Grasp […]

Journal article

Canterbury to Cameroon: a new partnership between faiths and the World Bank

01/08/2005

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could have a significant impact on development efforts, but dialogue between them appears impotent. That […]

Journal article

Partnerships, learning, and development: a case study from Ghana

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Decades of development practice suggest the fundamental importance of improving aid-delivery systems and stakeholder competence in order to improve the well-being of poor people. However, it is questionable whether the aid system is able to change its attitudes and values through such partnerships in a way that will do this. This paper suggests that for […]

Journal article

Money, power, and donor-NGO partnerships

01/05/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The term ‘partnership’ can be considered something of a Trojan Horse, disguising the reality of the complex relationships in imbalances of power and inequality, often expressed through the control of one ‘partner’ over the other. With particular reference to the experience of a small, UK-based NGO working in Uganda (Hives Save Lives – Africa), this […]

Journal article

Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil

01/11/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since 1996, CTA-ZM, a local Brazilian NGO, has been developing better ways to understand its work on pro-poor institutional transformation in Minas Gerais. It operates within a ‘messy partnership’ which includes farmer trade unions, associations, social movements, and academic institutions. The combined challenge of institutional transformation and messy partnerships has made it clear that mainstream […]

Research report

Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

03/11/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Achieving Education for All through public-private partnerships?

01/06/2010

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Education is commonly regarded as a state responsibility. Non-state provision is, however, increasingly prevalent in many developing countries in response to the inaccessibility and poor quality of state provision. Its unplanned growth has led to proposals for developing ‘public-private partnerships’. However, as a number of the papers in this collection indicate, such partnerships are insufficiently […]

Briefing paper

Moral Hazard? ‘Mega’ public-private partnerships in African agriculture

01/09/2014

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

African governments are increasingly turning to partnerships with donors and multinational companies to stimulate investment in agriculture, after decades of neglect. Such public–private partnerships (PPPs) ‘at scale’ offer the allure of increased capital and technology, rises in productivity and foreign exchange earnings. In this briefing paper Oxfam assesses the effectiveness and potential of these mega-PPPs as […]

Evaluation report

Programme Partnership Arrangement Evaluation 2014: A primary research feedback report

10/03/2015

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is one of Oxfam’s most strategically important partners. The Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA) is a major element of Oxfam’s relationship with DFID, providing valuable opportunities for collaboration and engagement, as well as financial support for Oxfam’s work. This feedback report covers Coffey International’s primary research with Oxfam GB as […]

Case study

Empowering Grassroots Women Through Transformational Partnerships in Agricultural Value Chains

24/10/2017

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) programme works to promote women’s economic empowerment in agricultural value chains. The agricultural sector is heavily reliant on women workers, but these women do not have equal access to resources – only 12 percent of the three million landowners in Asia are women, […]

Education resource

Building Successful School Partnerships: A guide for schools

01/01/2006

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

School partnerships have the potential to excite your learners about the wider world, broaden their understanding of life in other countries and instil a desire to create positive change. This guide outlines the cornerstones of establishing great ties and is filled with case studies and practical tips to help your school reap the rewards. Grasp […]

Journal article

Canterbury to Cameroon: a new partnership between faiths and the World Bank

01/08/2005

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could have a significant impact on development efforts, but dialogue between them appears impotent. That […]

Journal article

Partnerships, learning, and development: a case study from Ghana

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Decades of development practice suggest the fundamental importance of improving aid-delivery systems and stakeholder competence in order to improve the well-being of poor people. However, it is questionable whether the aid system is able to change its attitudes and values through such partnerships in a way that will do this. This paper suggests that for […]

Journal article

Money, power, and donor-NGO partnerships

01/05/2010

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The term ‘partnership’ can be considered something of a Trojan Horse, disguising the reality of the complex relationships in imbalances of power and inequality, often expressed through the control of one ‘partner’ over the other. With particular reference to the experience of a small, UK-based NGO working in Uganda (Hives Save Lives – Africa), this […]

Journal article

Rethinking monitoring in a complex messy partnership in Brazil

01/11/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since 1996, CTA-ZM, a local Brazilian NGO, has been developing better ways to understand its work on pro-poor institutional transformation in Minas Gerais. It operates within a ‘messy partnership’ which includes farmer trade unions, associations, social movements, and academic institutions. The combined challenge of institutional transformation and messy partnerships has made it clear that mainstream […]

Research report

Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

03/11/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […]