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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

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The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

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Handle with care: engaging with faith-based organisations in development

01/02/2011

8 pages long

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Religious faith has always had an intense but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with faith-based organisations (FBOs). This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful – but flammable – fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors therefore need to handle them with understanding and […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Civil Society Development and Access to Health Care, Georgia

10/10/2010

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Effective Civil Society Development and Improved Access to Quality Healthcare for Poor People in Georgia’ project aimed to strengthen and broaden the existing NGO coalition ‘Future without Poverty’ and monitor ongoing health care reforms. This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […]

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Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

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In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

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Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

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Overview

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

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Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

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Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

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Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

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Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

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Overview

Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

Keywords

Overview

The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

Journal article

Handle with care: engaging with faith-based organisations in development

01/02/2011

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Religious faith has always had an intense but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with faith-based organisations (FBOs). This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful – but flammable – fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors therefore need to handle them with understanding and […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Civil Society Development and Access to Health Care, Georgia

10/10/2010

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Effective Civil Society Development and Improved Access to Quality Healthcare for Poor People in Georgia’ project aimed to strengthen and broaden the existing NGO coalition ‘Future without Poverty’ and monitor ongoing health care reforms. This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […]

Journal article

Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

Journal article

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

Journal article

Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

Journal article

Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

Keywords

Overview

Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

Free access through journal website

Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

Keywords

Overview

The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

Journal article

Handle with care: engaging with faith-based organisations in development

01/02/2011

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Religious faith has always had an intense but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with faith-based organisations (FBOs). This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful – but flammable – fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors therefore need to handle them with understanding and […]

Evaluation report

Effectiveness Review: Civil Society Development and Access to Health Care, Georgia

10/10/2010

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The ‘Effective Civil Society Development and Improved Access to Quality Healthcare for Poor People in Georgia’ project aimed to strengthen and broaden the existing NGO coalition ‘Future without Poverty’ and monitor ongoing health care reforms. This included reporting possible negative effects to the responsible authorities and main health service providers and pressing for improvements. This […]

Journal article

Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa

01/08/2012

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such statements back to the 1960s, highlighting a process of ‘broken telephone’ whereby estimates are passed […]

Evaluation report

Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth in Orissa and Rajasthan, India

01/05/2008

2 documents

153 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam GB, with support from the European Commission, implemented the ‘HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Programme for Rural and Tribal Youth’ in four districts of Orissa and two districts of Rajasthan, India. The programme aimed to help out-of-school rural and tribal youth, aged 13-25, access information and services regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV and […]

Journal article

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

01/03/1991

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative ‘successes or ‘failures of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their […]

Journal article

Financing primary health care: An NGO perspective

01/03/1991

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health projects to assess four methods of PHC funding and their impact […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

Journal article

Development NGOs, local learning, and social capital: the experience of CARE Bolivia in Villa Serrano

01/04/2004

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The evaluation of development NGOs has seldom considered their impact on social capital and local organisational learning. Deeply intertwined, both are key dimensions of the long-term impact of development interventions. Studies have highlighted the relative success of NGOs in poverty reduction, but have been critical of the sustainability of the benefits and of NGOs’ failure […]

Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

Keywords

Overview

Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]