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Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Neither Enough, Nor Adequate: A participatory assessment of the barriers to local access for climate finance in the Sahel

14/11/2024

4 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Access to climate finance is a prominent feature of the debate for the upcoming COP29 decision to set a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance. Countries, communities and groups representing marginalised collectives who are most impacted by the climate crisis are in urgent need of scaled-up, accessible and adequate climate finance. Findings from participatory […]

Briefing note

Supporting livelihoods in the Lake Chad Basin: Ways forward for conflict-affected communities in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad

28/03/2018

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

The protracted conflict in the Lake Chad Basin has cut off millions of women and men from their livelihoods, making them dependent on humanitarian assistance to survive. Much emphasis has been given to the stabilization agenda, with a focus on securitization. However, Oxfam’s research in late 2017 showed that early recovery and livelihoods development are […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Briefing paper

Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

Research report

Money Talks: A synthesis report assessing humanitarian funding flows to local actors in Bangladesh and Uganda

23/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian agencies and donors have made a series of global commitments to local actors as part of the localization agenda, including to increase their access to greater direct funding by 2020. This briefing paper reviews 2015 national financial data for Bangladesh and Uganda to better understand how to target international investments in localization. It […]

Journal article

Using digital technology to engage and mobilise young people to end violence in intimate relationships: lessons from Bolivia

11/07/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

On 14 February 2017, celebrated as St Valentine’s Day in many contexts throughout the world and associated with lovers, a new campaign called ‘ACTÚA, Detén la violencia’, was launched in Bolivia. The campaign aims to tackle violence in young people’s relationships by encouraging individuals to take action in the presence of violence. A little over […]

Discussion paper

What Can Governments Do To Empower Poor People?

18/11/2013

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Whether guaranteeing access to justice, promoting norms of equality and respect, ensuring access to quality essential services, or supporting citizens’ organization and voice, governments can play an important role in the empowerment of poor and excluded groups and individuals. Reviewing dozens of case studies, along with the latest conceptual work on empowerment, this paper shows that […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Neither Enough, Nor Adequate: A participatory assessment of the barriers to local access for climate finance in the Sahel

14/11/2024

4 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Access to climate finance is a prominent feature of the debate for the upcoming COP29 decision to set a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance. Countries, communities and groups representing marginalised collectives who are most impacted by the climate crisis are in urgent need of scaled-up, accessible and adequate climate finance. Findings from participatory […]

Briefing note

Supporting livelihoods in the Lake Chad Basin: Ways forward for conflict-affected communities in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad

28/03/2018

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

The protracted conflict in the Lake Chad Basin has cut off millions of women and men from their livelihoods, making them dependent on humanitarian assistance to survive. Much emphasis has been given to the stabilization agenda, with a focus on securitization. However, Oxfam’s research in late 2017 showed that early recovery and livelihoods development are […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Briefing paper

Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

Research report

Money Talks: A synthesis report assessing humanitarian funding flows to local actors in Bangladesh and Uganda

23/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian agencies and donors have made a series of global commitments to local actors as part of the localization agenda, including to increase their access to greater direct funding by 2020. This briefing paper reviews 2015 national financial data for Bangladesh and Uganda to better understand how to target international investments in localization. It […]

Journal article

Using digital technology to engage and mobilise young people to end violence in intimate relationships: lessons from Bolivia

11/07/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

On 14 February 2017, celebrated as St Valentine’s Day in many contexts throughout the world and associated with lovers, a new campaign called ‘ACTÚA, Detén la violencia’, was launched in Bolivia. The campaign aims to tackle violence in young people’s relationships by encouraging individuals to take action in the presence of violence. A little over […]

Discussion paper

What Can Governments Do To Empower Poor People?

18/11/2013

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Whether guaranteeing access to justice, promoting norms of equality and respect, ensuring access to quality essential services, or supporting citizens’ organization and voice, governments can play an important role in the empowerment of poor and excluded groups and individuals. Reviewing dozens of case studies, along with the latest conceptual work on empowerment, this paper shows that […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

Briefing paper

Neither Enough, Nor Adequate: A participatory assessment of the barriers to local access for climate finance in the Sahel

14/11/2024

4 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Access to climate finance is a prominent feature of the debate for the upcoming COP29 decision to set a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance. Countries, communities and groups representing marginalised collectives who are most impacted by the climate crisis are in urgent need of scaled-up, accessible and adequate climate finance. Findings from participatory […]

Briefing note

Supporting livelihoods in the Lake Chad Basin: Ways forward for conflict-affected communities in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad

28/03/2018

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

The protracted conflict in the Lake Chad Basin has cut off millions of women and men from their livelihoods, making them dependent on humanitarian assistance to survive. Much emphasis has been given to the stabilization agenda, with a focus on securitization. However, Oxfam’s research in late 2017 showed that early recovery and livelihoods development are […]

Book

Cities of Hunger: Urban malnutrition in developing countries

01/01/1988

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

By the end of the century, half the world’s population will live in cities, so the need to improve the conditions of life of the urban poor is becoming increasingly urgent. A specific problem for poor city-dwellers, which to date has been under-researched, is that of providing sufficient food for themselves and their children. Cities […]

Briefing paper

Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

Research report

Money Talks: A synthesis report assessing humanitarian funding flows to local actors in Bangladesh and Uganda

23/03/2018

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International humanitarian agencies and donors have made a series of global commitments to local actors as part of the localization agenda, including to increase their access to greater direct funding by 2020. This briefing paper reviews 2015 national financial data for Bangladesh and Uganda to better understand how to target international investments in localization. It […]

Journal article

Using digital technology to engage and mobilise young people to end violence in intimate relationships: lessons from Bolivia

11/07/2018

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

On 14 February 2017, celebrated as St Valentine’s Day in many contexts throughout the world and associated with lovers, a new campaign called ‘ACTÚA, Detén la violencia’, was launched in Bolivia. The campaign aims to tackle violence in young people’s relationships by encouraging individuals to take action in the presence of violence. A little over […]

Discussion paper

What Can Governments Do To Empower Poor People?

18/11/2013

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Whether guaranteeing access to justice, promoting norms of equality and respect, ensuring access to quality essential services, or supporting citizens’ organization and voice, governments can play an important role in the empowerment of poor and excluded groups and individuals. Reviewing dozens of case studies, along with the latest conceptual work on empowerment, this paper shows that […]