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Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

Book

Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

19/06/2014

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

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

Keywords

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, […]

Journal article

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

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

Keywords

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 […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Beating storms and droughts: the Erdenedalai weather network in the Mongolian Gobi

01/02/2012

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although herders in Mongolia are embracing modernity, their livelihoods remain largely dependent on the weather and resulting grassland conditions. In recent years, natural resource degradation has made livestock production more risky. Severe weather events such as storms, droughts, and extremely harsh winters have been on the increase. Timely and adequate weather forecasts could help herders […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

Book

Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

19/06/2014

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

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

Keywords

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, […]

Journal article

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

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

Keywords

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 […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Beating storms and droughts: the Erdenedalai weather network in the Mongolian Gobi

01/02/2012

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although herders in Mongolia are embracing modernity, their livelihoods remain largely dependent on the weather and resulting grassland conditions. In recent years, natural resource degradation has made livestock production more risky. Severe weather events such as storms, droughts, and extremely harsh winters have been on the increase. Timely and adequate weather forecasts could help herders […]

Showing 437 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

Book

Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

Book

No-one Should Be Oppressed: Writing about our lives and struggles

19/06/2014

1 documents

145 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This book captures work from the Organising Marginalised and Vulnerable Women Workers cluster of the Oxfam Women’s Rights Advancement Programme (OWRAP) in South Africa. Contributions are from over twenty female workers and members of three organisations: Mthonjaneni Home Based Care Network in Kwa Zulu-Natal, Seasonal Farm Worker Structures in the Western Cape, and Sisonke sex […]

Journal article

The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

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

Keywords

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, […]

Journal article

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

01/07/2008

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Experiences of abortion in Nepal and menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: a gender analysis

Keywords

Overview

The extent to which abortion and menstrual regulation services are safe, legal, and women-friendly is a strong proxy of gender equity. This article draws on women’s voices from Nepal and Bangladesh to illustrate that even where services are provided legally, women can still face multiple barriers to access to services, and problematic quality of care. […]

Journal article

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

23/03/2021

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘No one understands what we go through’: self-identification of health risks by women sanitation workers in Pune, India during the COVID-19 pandemic

Keywords

Overview

This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health […]

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

Keywords

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 […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Beating storms and droughts: the Erdenedalai weather network in the Mongolian Gobi

01/02/2012

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although herders in Mongolia are embracing modernity, their livelihoods remain largely dependent on the weather and resulting grassland conditions. In recent years, natural resource degradation has made livestock production more risky. Severe weather events such as storms, droughts, and extremely harsh winters have been on the increase. Timely and adequate weather forecasts could help herders […]