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Case study

Yogyakarta Earthquake Community Recovery Grants supporting Gotong Royong

14/06/2008

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Timely and carefully targeted grants using a community-based approach enabled early recovery of productive activities and reinforced community spirit and decision-making following a powerful earthquake in Central Java.

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Briefing paper

A New Era in South Eastern Europe? Grasping the opportunity to promote economic growth with equity

01/11/2000

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Oxfam is concerned that rising poverty and inequality in South Eastern Europe could derail the EU’s long term efforts to ‘project stability’ to the region. Our experience of working with poor and vulnerable groups throughout the former Yugoslavia and Albania concurs with the World Bank’s assessment that ‘poverty is likely to have worsened dramatically in […]

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Briefing note

Cutting the Cost of Global Health

01/02/2001

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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Each year, 11 million people die from infectious diseases, many of them because they cannot afford basic medicines. Countless millions live with debilitating illnesses for the same reason. According to the World Health Organisation some 2 billion people lack access to basic healthcare – most of these people live in developing countries. There are many […]

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Briefing note

Immigration and Asylum Debate 12/4/2000

13/04/2000

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2 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

Overview

In addition to Oxfam’s long-standing international work in relation to humanitarian protection, we have been developing our work with asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain since the setting up of the UK Poverty Programme in 1995. Oxfam is therefore well placed to comment on asylum issues in relation to the UK as well as internationally. This […]

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Briefing paper

Turning the Tide: How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay

29/07/2009

2 documents

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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On 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides in Morecambe Bay because of the negligence of their gangmaster. This paper evaluates the current protection afforded to workers in the industries regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). It highlights that a significant number of unlicensed gangmasters continue to exist, and exploitation […]

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Briefing paper

Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […]

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Briefing paper

False Hope or New Start? The global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria

01/07/2002

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

14,000 people become HIV positive every day. The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria was set up to tackle the health crisis caused by these three diseases in developing countries. But it requires massive and long-term donor funding, a transparent and equitable system of service delivery, and commitment to comprehensive programmes of prevention, […]

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Briefing paper

Fast Forward: How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high quality budget support for education and health

02/05/2008

5 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Health systems

Overview

Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further improve and increase this aid. European […]

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Briefing paper

Getting the Fundamentals Right: The early stages of Afghanistan’s WTO accession process

28/06/2007

5 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English, French, Pashto, Persian, Spanish

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Overview

Afghanistan should be in no rush to join the World Trade Organisation. Rapid accession would have few benefits and could undermine efforts to reduce poverty. Careful planning and negotiation is the only way to avoid onerous commitments that have been forced on other very poor countries and to make the best of the potential benefits […]

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Briefing note

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment

12/07/2004

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Access to HIV/AIDS medicines makes a huge difference to the lives of infected people and their families. Not only do these medicines help people live longer, they also greatly improve the quality of their lives, reduce the stigma and discrimination that they might experience, and enable them to contribute to the economic and social welfare […]

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