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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

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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

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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 […]

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Climate Change

The world’s poorest countries and communities are hit worst by the climate crisis

Guidelines and toolkits

Research Ethics: A practical guide

09/11/2020

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Any research must follow ethical principles, particularly when it involves people as participants and is likely to impact them. This is standard practice in academic research and a legal requirement in medical trials, but also applies to research carried out by Oxfam. Oxfam’s work focuses on vulnerable populations, and takes place under difficult circumstances. When […]

Journal article

Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

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Unethical ethics?: applying research ethics in Uzbekistan

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

There are a number of serious ethical challenges and problems posed in conducting development research in a poor country. It is argued here that the best way to ensure that research is ethical is to apply three foundation principles. By focusing on self-determinism, non-malfeasance, and justice and beneficence, it is possible to avoid the risks […]

Research report

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

28/02/2023

4 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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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 […]

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Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Journal article

Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article develops the ‘safety-emotion-power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating safety in their fieldwork. Drawing on the author’s research experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, it argues that research touching on emotion-laden topics can inflict […]

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Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger

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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 […]

Webpage

Climate Change

The world’s poorest countries and communities are hit worst by the climate crisis

Guidelines and toolkits

Research Ethics: A practical guide

09/11/2020

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Any research must follow ethical principles, particularly when it involves people as participants and is likely to impact them. This is standard practice in academic research and a legal requirement in medical trials, but also applies to research carried out by Oxfam. Oxfam’s work focuses on vulnerable populations, and takes place under difficult circumstances. When […]

Journal article

Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

Journal article

Unethical ethics?: applying research ethics in Uzbekistan

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are a number of serious ethical challenges and problems posed in conducting development research in a poor country. It is argued here that the best way to ensure that research is ethical is to apply three foundation principles. By focusing on self-determinism, non-malfeasance, and justice and beneficence, it is possible to avoid the risks […]

Research report

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

28/02/2023

4 documents

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 […]

Journal article

Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Journal article

Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops the ‘safety-emotion-power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating safety in their fieldwork. Drawing on the author’s research experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, it argues that research touching on emotion-laden topics can inflict […]

Webpage

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Webpage

Climate Change

The world’s poorest countries and communities are hit worst by the climate crisis

Guidelines and toolkits

Research Ethics: A practical guide

09/11/2020

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Any research must follow ethical principles, particularly when it involves people as participants and is likely to impact them. This is standard practice in academic research and a legal requirement in medical trials, but also applies to research carried out by Oxfam. Oxfam’s work focuses on vulnerable populations, and takes place under difficult circumstances. When […]

Journal article

Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

Journal article

Unethical ethics?: applying research ethics in Uzbekistan

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are a number of serious ethical challenges and problems posed in conducting development research in a poor country. It is argued here that the best way to ensure that research is ethical is to apply three foundation principles. By focusing on self-determinism, non-malfeasance, and justice and beneficence, it is possible to avoid the risks […]

Research report

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

28/02/2023

4 documents

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 […]

Journal article

Bridging research and policy in international development: an analytical and practical framework

01/02/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Better use of research-based evidence in development policy and practice can help save lives, reduce poverty, and improve the quality of life. But for this to happen more effectively researchers need to do three things. First, they need to develop a detailed understanding of (a) the policy-making process; what are the key influencing factors, and […]

Journal article

Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries

01/09/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops the ‘safety-emotion-power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating safety in their fieldwork. Drawing on the author’s research experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, it argues that research touching on emotion-laden topics can inflict […]

Webpage

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Seeking to change economic models so that women’s paid and unpaid work is valued and their rights and voices are stronger