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Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

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Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

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Faecal Sludge Management for Disaster Relief: Technology Comparison Study

04/02/2020

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

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Faecal sludge management

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This report presents the findings of a study conducted by Arup on behalf of Oxfam to assess different faecal sludge management (FSM) methods at the Rohingya camps close to Cox's Bazar (CXB), Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to draw conclusions on best practices in FSM for disaster relief from evidence gathered through practical […]

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Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

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Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

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This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

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Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

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Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

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This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]

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Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia

01/04/2012

1 documents

131 pages long

Languages: English

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Following the publication of Oxfam GB’s Livelihoods Strategy 2010–2015, which incorporated poverty and urban-rural linkages as a core aim, this study was undertaken by an independent research team to determine the extent to which Oxfam’s rural livelihoods experience –- focused primarily on enterprise development –- is transferable to urban contexts. The research for this study, […]

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Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

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The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

23/03/2021

17 pages long

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The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

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Health and gender are two significant areas of the global development system. They share entangled epistemological histories typically drawn from the global North. We examine how these global entanglements of gender in global health act to veil local epistemologies and explanatory systems of understanding of disease, simultaneously advancing and complicating local responses to the changing […]

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‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

20/03/2018

17 pages long

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‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

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Young Indonesian LGBT people are currently mobilising against a wave of conservatism and violence in an increasingly anti-LGBT context. Young LGBT people are showing remarkable courage and strategic thinking and mobilising in a range of ways. These include grassroot peer support, advocacy, and partnerships with government, adult-led non-government organisations and the private sector. However, these […]

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

18/03/2020

17 pages long

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Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

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‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such […]

Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership Index: A snapshot of progress towards local humanitarian leadership outcomes in the humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

18/07/2022

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Overview

This index outlines what needs to change in order to achieve local humanitarian leadership in the Syria crisis response. It summarizes research undertaken on the engagement of local and national actors in the international humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and is accompanied by three country case studies. The index is designed to […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

Research report

Faecal Sludge Management for Disaster Relief: Technology Comparison Study

04/02/2020

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Faecal sludge management

Overview

This report presents the findings of a study conducted by Arup on behalf of Oxfam to assess different faecal sludge management (FSM) methods at the Rohingya camps close to Cox's Bazar (CXB), Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to draw conclusions on best practices in FSM for disaster relief from evidence gathered through practical […]

Journal article

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

Journal article

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

Keywords

Overview

This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]

Research report

Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia

01/04/2012

1 documents

131 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Following the publication of Oxfam GB’s Livelihoods Strategy 2010–2015, which incorporated poverty and urban-rural linkages as a core aim, this study was undertaken by an independent research team to determine the extent to which Oxfam’s rural livelihoods experience –- focused primarily on enterprise development –- is transferable to urban contexts. The research for this study, […]

Webpage

Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

Journal article

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

Keywords

Overview

Health and gender are two significant areas of the global development system. They share entangled epistemological histories typically drawn from the global North. We examine how these global entanglements of gender in global health act to veil local epistemologies and explanatory systems of understanding of disease, simultaneously advancing and complicating local responses to the changing […]

Journal article

‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

20/03/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

Keywords

Overview

Young Indonesian LGBT people are currently mobilising against a wave of conservatism and violence in an increasingly anti-LGBT context. Young LGBT people are showing remarkable courage and strategic thinking and mobilising in a range of ways. These include grassroot peer support, advocacy, and partnerships with government, adult-led non-government organisations and the private sector. However, these […]

Journal article

Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

18/03/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

Keywords

Overview

‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such […]

Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership Index: A snapshot of progress towards local humanitarian leadership outcomes in the humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

18/07/2022

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This index outlines what needs to change in order to achieve local humanitarian leadership in the Syria crisis response. It summarizes research undertaken on the engagement of local and national actors in the international humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and is accompanied by three country case studies. The index is designed to […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Civil society, basic education, and sector-wide aid: insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

01/06/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Emerging trends in reforms of education-sector plans indicate a shift not only in how foreign aid is disbursed, but also in how civil-society actors engage in new policy and advocacy roles. This contribution examines these changing civil-society roles in four countries: Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania. While sector-wide approaches have created new opportunities for […]

Research report

Faecal Sludge Management for Disaster Relief: Technology Comparison Study

04/02/2020

1 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Faecal sludge management

Overview

This report presents the findings of a study conducted by Arup on behalf of Oxfam to assess different faecal sludge management (FSM) methods at the Rohingya camps close to Cox's Bazar (CXB), Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to draw conclusions on best practices in FSM for disaster relief from evidence gathered through practical […]

Journal article

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

18/09/2025

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Depatriarchalisation and Bolivian women leadership: transforming politics across international, local, and everyday

Keywords

Overview

This article explores the significant role of Bolivian women’s social movements in shaping political alternatives to foreign policy and domestic governance through the lens of depatriarchalisation. The early 21st century has seen women’s movements as pivotal actors in a critical transformation in Bolivia’s political landscape, challenging entrenched patriarchal norms and advocating for gender justice within […]

Journal article

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

18/09/2025

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South

Keywords

Overview

This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial […]

Research report

Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia

01/04/2012

1 documents

131 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Following the publication of Oxfam GB’s Livelihoods Strategy 2010–2015, which incorporated poverty and urban-rural linkages as a core aim, this study was undertaken by an independent research team to determine the extent to which Oxfam’s rural livelihoods experience –- focused primarily on enterprise development –- is transferable to urban contexts. The research for this study, […]

Webpage

Health

COVID-19 has swept across the world, deepening and amplifying already existing health, economic, and social inequalities

Journal article

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

23/03/2021

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

Keywords

Overview

Health and gender are two significant areas of the global development system. They share entangled epistemological histories typically drawn from the global North. We examine how these global entanglements of gender in global health act to veil local epistemologies and explanatory systems of understanding of disease, simultaneously advancing and complicating local responses to the changing […]

Journal article

‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

20/03/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Being young and LGBT, what could be worse?’ Analysis of youth LGBT activism in Indonesia: challenges and ways forward

Keywords

Overview

Young Indonesian LGBT people are currently mobilising against a wave of conservatism and violence in an increasingly anti-LGBT context. Young LGBT people are showing remarkable courage and strategic thinking and mobilising in a range of ways. These include grassroot peer support, advocacy, and partnerships with government, adult-led non-government organisations and the private sector. However, these […]

Journal article

Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

18/03/2020

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Building new practices of solidarity: the community mobilisation in crisis project

Keywords

Overview

‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such […]

Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership Index: A snapshot of progress towards local humanitarian leadership outcomes in the humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria

18/07/2022

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

This index outlines what needs to change in order to achieve local humanitarian leadership in the Syria crisis response. It summarizes research undertaken on the engagement of local and national actors in the international humanitarian coordination architecture in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and is accompanied by three country case studies. The index is designed to […]