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Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08/03/2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05/06/2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

Briefing paper

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Key takeaways for donors, INGOs and the wider sector

28/02/2023

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Reviewing the Existing Literature

27/03/2019

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reviewing what’s already out there ‘ also known as doing a ‘literature review’ ‘ is the best way to start any research project. It avoids repeating what others have already done, saving time and money (and embarrassment). It will help you to clarify and justify the focus of your planned research. And it will show […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

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 […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08/03/2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05/06/2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

Briefing paper

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Key takeaways for donors, INGOs and the wider sector

28/02/2023

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Reviewing the Existing Literature

27/03/2019

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reviewing what’s already out there ‘ also known as doing a ‘literature review’ ‘ is the best way to start any research project. It avoids repeating what others have already done, saving time and money (and embarrassment). It will help you to clarify and justify the focus of your planned research. And it will show […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

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 […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa: Cross-national research on seven African countries

08/03/2017

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Prolonged conflict, proxy wars, and inter-communal strife characterize many regions in Africa. This violence has caused untold atrocities, deaths, sexual violence, and displacement, as well as accelerating poverty and shattering lives and communities across the continent. Uncontrolled arms in Africa fuel this violence and are increasingly putting lives at immense risk. This report provides evidence […]

Research report

Now is the Time: Research on Gender Justice, Conflict and Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa

05/06/2017

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This study examines the impact of fragility and conflict on gender justice and women’s rights in the MENA, as a part of an Oxfam project entitled ‘Promoting the Needs of Women in Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa’ funded through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It specifically aims to understand how conflict […]

Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

Research report

Marriage Decision-Making: A family affair – Insight into marriage decision-making processes and social norms around child marriage in Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan

21/06/2018

1 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report presents the findings of research conducted to support the work of the Marriage, No Child's Play programme. The programme aims to change social norms that perpetuate the practices of early and forced marriage. It currently operates in four districts of Pakistan: Larkana and Shikarpur in Sindh, and Lodhran and Muzaffargarh in South Punjab. To increase […]

Briefing paper

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Key takeaways for donors, INGOs and the wider sector

28/02/2023

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Reviewing the Existing Literature

27/03/2019

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Reviewing what’s already out there ‘ also known as doing a ‘literature review’ ‘ is the best way to start any research project. It avoids repeating what others have already done, saving time and money (and embarrassment). It will help you to clarify and justify the focus of your planned research. And it will show […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Journal article

Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia

01/06/2008

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It focuses on a case study involving the application of research evidence on child poverty to shape policy debates concerning Ethiopia’s second-generation […]

Discussion paper

Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

14/07/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This Institute of Development Studies (IDS) note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections. It is based on the 2012 findings of the […]

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 […]