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Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

Journal article

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

Discussion paper

Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?

08/02/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […]

Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

Journal article

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

Briefing paper

Balancing the Books: Including women and protecting refugees is essential to realizing small business growth in Jordan

10/12/2017

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

It is essential that opportunities for job growth are supported both for refugees in Jordan and the vulnerable communities hosting them. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can be a key driver of job growth. Promoting MSMEs could also help to address gender inequality and protection issues for refugees in Jordan. This joint agency paper […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Practical Notes

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Overview

Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Case study

The Birds and the Bees: Training a new generation of activists against sexual violence in South Africa

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

South Africa has “globally unprecedented” levels of violence against women (Medical Research Council, 2009). Despite the country’s progressive constitution and support for women’s rights, the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust estimates that up to 500,000 women are raped each year. Oxfam is partnering with Rape Crisis to support their peer education programme, which trains high […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

Journal article

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

Discussion paper

Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?

08/02/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […]

Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

Journal article

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

Briefing paper

Balancing the Books: Including women and protecting refugees is essential to realizing small business growth in Jordan

10/12/2017

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

It is essential that opportunities for job growth are supported both for refugees in Jordan and the vulnerable communities hosting them. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can be a key driver of job growth. Promoting MSMEs could also help to address gender inequality and protection issues for refugees in Jordan. This joint agency paper […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Practical Notes

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Case study

The Birds and the Bees: Training a new generation of activists against sexual violence in South Africa

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

South Africa has “globally unprecedented” levels of violence against women (Medical Research Council, 2009). Despite the country’s progressive constitution and support for women’s rights, the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust estimates that up to 500,000 women are raped each year. Oxfam is partnering with Rape Crisis to support their peer education programme, which trains high […]

Showing 467 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Weak Link: The role of local institutions in accountable natural resource management in Peru, Senegal, Ghana, and Tanzania

15/04/2016

9 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extractive industries present potentially large opportunities for developing countries. However, advocates for responsible natural resource management are often frustrated by the fact that best-practice policy prescriptions are frequently ignored by governments in developing counties. As a result, there has been a growing effort to understand how policy decisions are made, and how political and economic […]

Journal article

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

Discussion paper

Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?

08/02/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women […]

Journal article

Feedback

01/11/2003

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Microfinance, empowerment, and Sudra women in India’. In their article ‘Microfinance and women’s empowerment: a lesson from India’, published in the November 2002 issue of Development in Practice, Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram (henceforth LS) report the results of their research on an NGO project undertaken in the Karnataka State of South India-an […]

Journal article

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

01/11/2003

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Measuring the invisibles: gender mainstreaming and monitoring experience from a dairy development project in Tanzania

Keywords

Overview

Development projects are under pressure to deliver positive gender changes. This paper provides a practical example of how one project in Tanzania attempted to meet this demand. It details how a conventional technical project developed its own understanding of what it is to be gender sensitive, and identified gender concerns that it might address. The […]

Briefing paper

Balancing the Books: Including women and protecting refugees is essential to realizing small business growth in Jordan

10/12/2017

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

Keywords

Overview

It is essential that opportunities for job growth are supported both for refugees in Jordan and the vulnerable communities hosting them. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can be a key driver of job growth. Promoting MSMEs could also help to address gender inequality and protection issues for refugees in Jordan. This joint agency paper […]

Technical briefing

WASH in Schools: Liberia’s first step to recovery from Ebola

02/03/2015

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Schools are gradually reopening in Liberia after having been closed for six months in an attempt to curb the spread of Ebola. However, the dire lack of clean water and sanitation (WASH) in educational facilities is a major concern for Liberia’s government. At the request of President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a ‘WASH in […]

Journal article

Practical Notes

01/04/2004

24 pages long

Free access through journal website

Practical Notes

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Women and the burden of unsustainable development: practice and policy contradictions’, ‘Pro-poor dissemination: increasing the impact of research’, ‘Lessons learned from the reintegration of former Kosovo Liberation Army combatants’ and ‘The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Social capital, NGOs, and development: a Guatemalan case study

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Social researchers continue to grasp for critical factors that foster or impede the development of social capital. This article highlights some of these factors based on an investigation of a low-income urban settlement in Guatemala. Community activists and leaders, elected representatives, regional government service providers, local residents, NGO directors and staff, and other key informants […]

Case study

The Birds and the Bees: Training a new generation of activists against sexual violence in South Africa

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Gender-based violence

Overview

South Africa has “globally unprecedented” levels of violence against women (Medical Research Council, 2009). Despite the country’s progressive constitution and support for women’s rights, the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust estimates that up to 500,000 women are raped each year. Oxfam is partnering with Rape Crisis to support their peer education programme, which trains high […]