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Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises

03/03/2017

3 documents

124 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During conflicts and crises, children often face multiple stressors that can have significant impacts on their physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. Because unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) have lost the care and protection of their primary caregivers, they face a heightened risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence (Maestral International, 2011). As a result, […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

A Rapid Assessment of The Impacts of Price hikes on People in Selected Urban Areas

01/05/2011

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

Rapid assessments in three residential areas of Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh city in May, 2011 were implemented to discover response measures and the influence of price increases on urban groups, including the poor (people who receive social protection), migrants, local self-employed labourers, pensioners, civil servants and medium-income workers. The average retail price of […]

Journal article

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

10/11/2014

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

Keywords

Overview

The burden of care for a disabled relative traditionally falls on women: mothers, wives, sisters. In Cambodia, Khmer culture is strongly structured around the family unit within which both the role of women and discrimination towards people with disabilities are sanctioned by social hierarchy, perceptions of weakness, and the concept of karmic merit. This article explores the impact of […]

Case study

Women Producers of ‘Bouquets and Beans’ in Kenya: Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case-study explores the findings of a Poverty Footprint study in the horticultural sector in Kenya, published jointly by Oxfam and IPL (International Procurement and Logistics Ltd) in 2013. Key findings were that women make up over 60% of the workforce and whilst the sector provides job opportunities women workers are disempowered, suffer sexual harassment […]

Issue briefing

A Long Way to Go: The Ebola response in West Africa at the sixty day mark

09/12/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The international response to the Ebola epidemic is on the right path, but there is a long way to go. Case numbers are stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, but remain out of control in Sierra Leone and the targets for cases treated have not been met. The issues raised by the Ebola crisis go beyond […]

Case study

Oxfam in Peru: Young Peruvians fighting inequality and fiscal injustice

19/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Peru, Oxfam and partners are supporting young people to take part in the debate on fiscal justice and inequality by connecting with investigative journalists, academics, movements and civil society organizations. Through the digital platform Actua.pe, this active citizenship is further strengthened online, using creative visuals to inform the debate on issues that they care […]

Journal article

Health for All by the Year 2000: what about the nomads?

01/05/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Developing countries with large nomadic populations have found it difficult to cater for itinerant people in their healthcare strategies. Some have tried to settle nomads, others to bring in health workers from outside the nomadic community, both costly and ineffective intervention measures. The author advocates a strategy which seeks to build on the traditional healers’ […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises

03/03/2017

3 documents

124 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During conflicts and crises, children often face multiple stressors that can have significant impacts on their physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. Because unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) have lost the care and protection of their primary caregivers, they face a heightened risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence (Maestral International, 2011). As a result, […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

A Rapid Assessment of The Impacts of Price hikes on People in Selected Urban Areas

01/05/2011

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

Rapid assessments in three residential areas of Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh city in May, 2011 were implemented to discover response measures and the influence of price increases on urban groups, including the poor (people who receive social protection), migrants, local self-employed labourers, pensioners, civil servants and medium-income workers. The average retail price of […]

Journal article

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

10/11/2014

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

Keywords

Overview

The burden of care for a disabled relative traditionally falls on women: mothers, wives, sisters. In Cambodia, Khmer culture is strongly structured around the family unit within which both the role of women and discrimination towards people with disabilities are sanctioned by social hierarchy, perceptions of weakness, and the concept of karmic merit. This article explores the impact of […]

Case study

Women Producers of ‘Bouquets and Beans’ in Kenya: Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case-study explores the findings of a Poverty Footprint study in the horticultural sector in Kenya, published jointly by Oxfam and IPL (International Procurement and Logistics Ltd) in 2013. Key findings were that women make up over 60% of the workforce and whilst the sector provides job opportunities women workers are disempowered, suffer sexual harassment […]

Issue briefing

A Long Way to Go: The Ebola response in West Africa at the sixty day mark

09/12/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The international response to the Ebola epidemic is on the right path, but there is a long way to go. Case numbers are stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, but remain out of control in Sierra Leone and the targets for cases treated have not been met. The issues raised by the Ebola crisis go beyond […]

Case study

Oxfam in Peru: Young Peruvians fighting inequality and fiscal injustice

19/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Peru, Oxfam and partners are supporting young people to take part in the debate on fiscal justice and inequality by connecting with investigative journalists, academics, movements and civil society organizations. Through the digital platform Actua.pe, this active citizenship is further strengthened online, using creative visuals to inform the debate on issues that they care […]

Journal article

Health for All by the Year 2000: what about the nomads?

01/05/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Developing countries with large nomadic populations have found it difficult to cater for itinerant people in their healthcare strategies. Some have tried to settle nomads, others to bring in health workers from outside the nomadic community, both costly and ineffective intervention measures. The author advocates a strategy which seeks to build on the traditional healers’ […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

The Impact of Protection Interventions on Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Humanitarian Crises

03/03/2017

3 documents

124 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

During conflicts and crises, children often face multiple stressors that can have significant impacts on their physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. Because unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) have lost the care and protection of their primary caregivers, they face a heightened risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence (Maestral International, 2011). As a result, […]

Research report

Beyond Philanthropy: The pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

01/07/2002

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Every year, infectious diseases kill 14 million people worldwide. Most of these deaths are of poor people living in developing countries, particularly children under the age of five. Due to poor healthcare systems and poor infrastructure in developing countries, the sick and the dying lack adequate access to the medicines they need. Even though, the […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

A Rapid Assessment of The Impacts of Price hikes on People in Selected Urban Areas

01/05/2011

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Financial crisis

Overview

Rapid assessments in three residential areas of Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh city in May, 2011 were implemented to discover response measures and the influence of price increases on urban groups, including the poor (people who receive social protection), migrants, local self-employed labourers, pensioners, civil servants and medium-income workers. The average retail price of […]

Journal article

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

10/11/2014

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Caring for people with intellectual disabilities in poor rural communities in Cambodia: experience from ADD International

Keywords

Overview

The burden of care for a disabled relative traditionally falls on women: mothers, wives, sisters. In Cambodia, Khmer culture is strongly structured around the family unit within which both the role of women and discrimination towards people with disabilities are sanctioned by social hierarchy, perceptions of weakness, and the concept of karmic merit. This article explores the impact of […]

Case study

Women Producers of ‘Bouquets and Beans’ in Kenya: Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction

30/10/2014

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This case-study explores the findings of a Poverty Footprint study in the horticultural sector in Kenya, published jointly by Oxfam and IPL (International Procurement and Logistics Ltd) in 2013. Key findings were that women make up over 60% of the workforce and whilst the sector provides job opportunities women workers are disempowered, suffer sexual harassment […]

Issue briefing

A Long Way to Go: The Ebola response in West Africa at the sixty day mark

09/12/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The international response to the Ebola epidemic is on the right path, but there is a long way to go. Case numbers are stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, but remain out of control in Sierra Leone and the targets for cases treated have not been met. The issues raised by the Ebola crisis go beyond […]

Case study

Oxfam in Peru: Young Peruvians fighting inequality and fiscal injustice

19/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

In Peru, Oxfam and partners are supporting young people to take part in the debate on fiscal justice and inequality by connecting with investigative journalists, academics, movements and civil society organizations. Through the digital platform Actua.pe, this active citizenship is further strengthened online, using creative visuals to inform the debate on issues that they care […]

Journal article

Health for All by the Year 2000: what about the nomads?

01/05/1999

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Developing countries with large nomadic populations have found it difficult to cater for itinerant people in their healthcare strategies. Some have tried to settle nomads, others to bring in health workers from outside the nomadic community, both costly and ineffective intervention measures. The author advocates a strategy which seeks to build on the traditional healers’ […]

Journal article

Equity in health and economic globalisation

01/11/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In this personal Viewpoint, the author argues that globalisation has led to increased inequity in health and healthcare provision, just as it aggravates social inequity in general. He highlights the growing sacrifice of equity to efficiency, and the complicity of `elite’ countries and companies in the deterioration of social conditions. Medical knowledge is being traded […]