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Falling down the rabbit hole: crime in Johannesburg’s inner city

01/04/2006

5 pages long

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Development methods

Overview

Researching the details of the criminal economy is a difficult task but this research did so within the context of Yeoville, a residential suburb in the eastern part of Johannesburg’s inner city. In particular, the investigation focused on who was operating at the lower levels of the criminal economy and what activities were underway. Conclusions […]

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African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

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Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

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Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

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Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Case study

Community-based Adaptation and Advocacy in Coastal Pakistan

01/11/2009

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In 2008, Oxfam GB in Pakistan undertook community-based research to better understand the implications of climate change for communities living in the Badin coastal region of Pakistan. This research was initiated following discussions between programme staff and partners about the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 reports, as well as the UNDP Human Development […]

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Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

01/05/2003

14 pages long

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Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

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Overview

Do gender relations change through conflict? How might conflict itself be fuelled by aspects of gender identity? A recently completed research project that combined oral testimony with more conventional research methods concluded that conflict has undoubtedly given women greater responsibilities, and with them the possibility of exerting greater leverage in decision making and increasing their […]

Journal article

Blazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and wood-fuel paradoxes?

01/11/2006

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at […]

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Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

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Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

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Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

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Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

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Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Issue briefing

Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world

05/09/2012

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Climate change is making extreme weather much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the USA shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty. This briefing draws […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Falling down the rabbit hole: crime in Johannesburg’s inner city

01/04/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Researching the details of the criminal economy is a difficult task but this research did so within the context of Yeoville, a residential suburb in the eastern part of Johannesburg’s inner city. In particular, the investigation focused on who was operating at the lower levels of the criminal economy and what activities were underway. Conclusions […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Webpage

Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Case study

Community-based Adaptation and Advocacy in Coastal Pakistan

01/11/2009

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, Oxfam GB in Pakistan undertook community-based research to better understand the implications of climate change for communities living in the Badin coastal region of Pakistan. This research was initiated following discussions between programme staff and partners about the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 reports, as well as the UNDP Human Development […]

Journal article

Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

Keywords

Overview

Do gender relations change through conflict? How might conflict itself be fuelled by aspects of gender identity? A recently completed research project that combined oral testimony with more conventional research methods concluded that conflict has undoubtedly given women greater responsibilities, and with them the possibility of exerting greater leverage in decision making and increasing their […]

Journal article

Blazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and wood-fuel paradoxes?

01/11/2006

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at […]

Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

Keywords

Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Issue briefing

Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world

05/09/2012

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Climate change is making extreme weather much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the USA shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty. This briefing draws […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Falling down the rabbit hole: crime in Johannesburg’s inner city

01/04/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Researching the details of the criminal economy is a difficult task but this research did so within the context of Yeoville, a residential suburb in the eastern part of Johannesburg’s inner city. In particular, the investigation focused on who was operating at the lower levels of the criminal economy and what activities were underway. Conclusions […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Webpage

Development & Humanitarian Practice

We are committed to contributing to collective understanding and improved practice in community-based work and humanitarian action

Webpage

Private Sector at Oxfam

We are working towards a human economy where businesses play a positive role in overcoming poverty and inequality

Case study

Community-based Adaptation and Advocacy in Coastal Pakistan

01/11/2009

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In 2008, Oxfam GB in Pakistan undertook community-based research to better understand the implications of climate change for communities living in the Badin coastal region of Pakistan. This research was initiated following discussions between programme staff and partners about the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 reports, as well as the UNDP Human Development […]

Journal article

Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

01/05/2003

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

Keywords

Overview

Do gender relations change through conflict? How might conflict itself be fuelled by aspects of gender identity? A recently completed research project that combined oral testimony with more conventional research methods concluded that conflict has undoubtedly given women greater responsibilities, and with them the possibility of exerting greater leverage in decision making and increasing their […]

Journal article

Blazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and wood-fuel paradoxes?

01/11/2006

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using autobiographical experience with reference to wood-fuel research in two locations in West Africa, this article illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventually produced as knowledge. However, although it explores the various roles that knowledge plays in the social relations at […]

Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

Keywords

Overview

In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

Journal article

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

01/07/2011

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Cash transfers, gender equity and women’s empowerment in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia

Keywords

Overview

Conditional cash transfer programmes provide extremely poor households with a cash subsidy, on condition that children attend school, and mothers and infants undergo health checks. These programmes are generally considered effective social protection mechanisms, and success in meeting children’s nutrition, education, and health targets is reported. However, the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment […]

Issue briefing

Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world

05/09/2012

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Climate change is making extreme weather much more likely. As the 2012 drought in the USA shows, extreme weather means extreme food prices. Our failure to slash greenhouse gas emissions presents a future of greater food price volatility, with severe consequences for the precarious lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty. This briefing draws […]