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Case study

Establishing Partnerships for Adaptive Programming in Sierra Leone

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the Freetown WASH Consortium – consisting of Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and GOAL – has worked to decrease mortality and morbidity stemming from preventable WASH-related causes in Sierra Leone’s capital. Now in its third phase, the DFID-funded consortium is undertaking a range of integrated activities to improve access […]

Journal article

Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

How partnership works

01/08/2009

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Partnerships can achieve results, but they do not develop smoothly. Members must explore their differences before they can perform well together. Some agencies look inwards at their own priorities and expect their partners to follow them. This leads to a blend of co-operation and competition. Other organisations turn outwards and look for partners who can […]

Journal article

Enhancing learning in development partnerships

01/08/2006

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Through an analysis of practical examples and key literature, this article considers what will enhance learning in and between NGOs and other development partners. The authors explore how the types and qualities of relationship currently evolving in the development sector affect learning, drawing predominantly on experiences of relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs. The article […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

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Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]

Showing 320 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Establishing Partnerships for Adaptive Programming in Sierra Leone

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the Freetown WASH Consortium – consisting of Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and GOAL – has worked to decrease mortality and morbidity stemming from preventable WASH-related causes in Sierra Leone’s capital. Now in its third phase, the DFID-funded consortium is undertaking a range of integrated activities to improve access […]

Journal article

Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

How partnership works

01/08/2009

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Partnerships can achieve results, but they do not develop smoothly. Members must explore their differences before they can perform well together. Some agencies look inwards at their own priorities and expect their partners to follow them. This leads to a blend of co-operation and competition. Other organisations turn outwards and look for partners who can […]

Journal article

Enhancing learning in development partnerships

01/08/2006

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of practical examples and key literature, this article considers what will enhance learning in and between NGOs and other development partners. The authors explore how the types and qualities of relationship currently evolving in the development sector affect learning, drawing predominantly on experiences of relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs. The article […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]

Showing 320 matching results from Policy & Practice

Case study

Establishing Partnerships for Adaptive Programming in Sierra Leone

10/07/2017

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Since 2010, the Freetown WASH Consortium – consisting of Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Concern Worldwide and GOAL – has worked to decrease mortality and morbidity stemming from preventable WASH-related causes in Sierra Leone’s capital. Now in its third phase, the DFID-funded consortium is undertaking a range of integrated activities to improve access […]

Journal article

Lessons from action-research partnerships: LASA/Oxfam America 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture

01/02/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship and the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to bring people together. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

How partnership works

01/08/2009

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Partnerships can achieve results, but they do not develop smoothly. Members must explore their differences before they can perform well together. Some agencies look inwards at their own priorities and expect their partners to follow them. This leads to a blend of co-operation and competition. Other organisations turn outwards and look for partners who can […]

Journal article

Enhancing learning in development partnerships

01/08/2006

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of practical examples and key literature, this article considers what will enhance learning in and between NGOs and other development partners. The authors explore how the types and qualities of relationship currently evolving in the development sector affect learning, drawing predominantly on experiences of relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs. The article […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]