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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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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

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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

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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 […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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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

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

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Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

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Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

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Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

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ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

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 […]

Showing 439 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 […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

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

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

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 […]

Showing 439 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 […]

Case study

I Care About Her: Building a movement of champions in Zambia to end violence against women and girls

05/03/2015

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Over half of women in Zambia have experienced physical or sexual violence (Zambia Demographic and Health Survey, 2007). Oxfam is partnering with several local organisations to implement I Care About Her, a programme which works to end violence against women and girls by transforming attitudes and beliefs and mobilising men and boys to champion non-violence. […]

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

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

08/05/2025

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Compounding Care Burdens: Women’s everyday experiences of climate preparedness and adaptation in Banaskantha, India

Keywords

Overview

As rapid climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, there is a noticeable increase in co-located hazards which refer to climate events that overlap or occur concurrently (e.g. droughts followed by floods or overlapping with heatwaves). Regions that are historically unaccustomed to these patterns of high variability are now struggling to adapt […]

Journal article

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

31/08/2022

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Introduction: A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision

Keywords

Overview

This is the introduction to the journal issue on 'A gender-responsive recovery: ensuring women’s decent work and transforming care provision'.

Journal article

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

ActionAid’s Young Urban Women Programme in urban India: taking an intersectional approach to decent work, unpaid care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights

Keywords

Overview

This article traces the implementation of a programme with young urban women living in poverty in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai. The programme aims to increase their economic independence and control over their bodies. It begins from an intersectional analysis of women’s access to decent work, their unpaid care work responsibilities, and […]

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 […]