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Journal article

Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal: opportunities and constraints

01/02/2011

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate-NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution, which has been enabled by India’s unique regulatory framework. We challenge the popular construction of this model as a ‘win-win’ for all parties by analysing conflicting understandings of micro-insurance schemes and their purposes […]

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 […]

Research report

Equity and Quality in an Education Public-Private Partnership: A study of the World Bank-supported PPP in Punjab, Pakistan

02/08/2018

2 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education are increasing in profile as countries grapple with serious challenges of educational access and quality—and as donors such as the World Bank turn to this approach as they advise countries on potential solutions to these barriers. Evidence is still limited on the impacts of this policy approach, however, and the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Partnership Recommendations

17/09/2021

3 documents

1 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

This is a set of recommendations produced by Mohamud Birik Adan, Protection Manager at KAALO, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses capacity strengthening and partnerships.

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 […]

Journal article

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

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 […]

Case study

Working in Partnership to Improve Education in Niger

13/09/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study focuses on Oxfam’s programme in the Tillabéri region of Niger, where many people have little or no access to basic services. The programme aims to improve children’s (and especially girls’) access to basic education in the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities where we work, and to improve the school environment so that fewer […]

Briefing note

The New Alliance: A new direction needed. Reforming the G8’s public-private partnership on agriculture and food security

25/09/2013

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched at the G8 summit in 2012, promised to reduce poverty for 50 million people over the next ten years by increasing private investment and agriculture-led growth in selected African countries. This briefing shows how, one year on, evidence about its implementation presents a worrying picture of […]

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 […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal: opportunities and constraints

01/02/2011

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate-NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution, which has been enabled by India’s unique regulatory framework. We challenge the popular construction of this model as a ‘win-win’ for all parties by analysing conflicting understandings of micro-insurance schemes and their purposes […]

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 […]

Research report

Equity and Quality in an Education Public-Private Partnership: A study of the World Bank-supported PPP in Punjab, Pakistan

02/08/2018

2 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education are increasing in profile as countries grapple with serious challenges of educational access and quality—and as donors such as the World Bank turn to this approach as they advise countries on potential solutions to these barriers. Evidence is still limited on the impacts of this policy approach, however, and the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Partnership Recommendations

17/09/2021

3 documents

1 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is a set of recommendations produced by Mohamud Birik Adan, Protection Manager at KAALO, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses capacity strengthening and partnerships.

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 […]

Journal article

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

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 […]

Case study

Working in Partnership to Improve Education in Niger

13/09/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study focuses on Oxfam’s programme in the Tillabéri region of Niger, where many people have little or no access to basic services. The programme aims to improve children’s (and especially girls’) access to basic education in the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities where we work, and to improve the school environment so that fewer […]

Briefing note

The New Alliance: A new direction needed. Reforming the G8’s public-private partnership on agriculture and food security

25/09/2013

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched at the G8 summit in 2012, promised to reduce poverty for 50 million people over the next ten years by increasing private investment and agriculture-led growth in selected African countries. This briefing shows how, one year on, evidence about its implementation presents a worrying picture of […]

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 […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal: opportunities and constraints

01/02/2011

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate-NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution, which has been enabled by India’s unique regulatory framework. We challenge the popular construction of this model as a ‘win-win’ for all parties by analysing conflicting understandings of micro-insurance schemes and their purposes […]

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 […]

Research report

Equity and Quality in an Education Public-Private Partnership: A study of the World Bank-supported PPP in Punjab, Pakistan

02/08/2018

2 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education are increasing in profile as countries grapple with serious challenges of educational access and quality—and as donors such as the World Bank turn to this approach as they advise countries on potential solutions to these barriers. Evidence is still limited on the impacts of this policy approach, however, and the […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Partnership Recommendations

17/09/2021

3 documents

1 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This is a set of recommendations produced by Mohamud Birik Adan, Protection Manager at KAALO, as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses capacity strengthening and partnerships.

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 […]

Journal article

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

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 […]

Case study

Working in Partnership to Improve Education in Niger

13/09/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case study focuses on Oxfam’s programme in the Tillabéri region of Niger, where many people have little or no access to basic services. The programme aims to improve children’s (and especially girls’) access to basic education in the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities where we work, and to improve the school environment so that fewer […]

Briefing note

The New Alliance: A new direction needed. Reforming the G8’s public-private partnership on agriculture and food security

25/09/2013

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched at the G8 summit in 2012, promised to reduce poverty for 50 million people over the next ten years by increasing private investment and agriculture-led growth in selected African countries. This briefing shows how, one year on, evidence about its implementation presents a worrying picture of […]

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 […]