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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

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

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

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Briefing paper

Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The dangers of militarized aid in Afghanistan

27/01/2010

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Persian

Keywords

Overview

Every half hour, an average of one Afghan woman dies from pregnancy-related complications, another dies of tuberculosis and 14 children die, largely from preventable causes. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, the humanitarian and development needs in Afghanistan remain acute. Undoubtedly, Afghans have seen some improvements, particularly in the expansion of access to […]

Briefing note

The Time is Now: How world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

03/06/2008

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. The resulting food price crisis constitutes an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and well-being of millions of rural and urban households who are net food buyers. Around the world, Oxfam International and many of its partners have seen soaring prices force people […]

Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

Keywords

Overview

On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

Book

Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Building Trust in Diverse Teams: The toolkit for emergency response

30/11/2007

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features a Trust Index, to assess and measure trust within diverse […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

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

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Briefing paper

Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The dangers of militarized aid in Afghanistan

27/01/2010

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Persian

Keywords

Overview

Every half hour, an average of one Afghan woman dies from pregnancy-related complications, another dies of tuberculosis and 14 children die, largely from preventable causes. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, the humanitarian and development needs in Afghanistan remain acute. Undoubtedly, Afghans have seen some improvements, particularly in the expansion of access to […]

Briefing note

The Time is Now: How world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

03/06/2008

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. The resulting food price crisis constitutes an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and well-being of millions of rural and urban households who are net food buyers. Around the world, Oxfam International and many of its partners have seen soaring prices force people […]

Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

Keywords

Overview

On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

Book

Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Building Trust in Diverse Teams: The toolkit for emergency response

30/11/2007

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features a Trust Index, to assess and measure trust within diverse […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

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

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

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

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing paper

Lifting the Resource Curse: How poor people can and should benefit from the revenues of extractive industries

24/11/2009

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In countries rich in minerals and hydrocarbons, it is often the case that a small number of private companies benefit from the exploitation of these resources, while public revenues are small or misused and local populations remain poor. The way to fight the ‘curse’ of natural resources is by sharing the benefits fairly between private […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Briefing paper

Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The dangers of militarized aid in Afghanistan

27/01/2010

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Persian

Keywords

Overview

Every half hour, an average of one Afghan woman dies from pregnancy-related complications, another dies of tuberculosis and 14 children die, largely from preventable causes. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, the humanitarian and development needs in Afghanistan remain acute. Undoubtedly, Afghans have seen some improvements, particularly in the expansion of access to […]

Briefing note

The Time is Now: How world leaders should respond to the food price crisis

03/06/2008

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Global food prices are up 83 per cent compared with three years ago. The resulting food price crisis constitutes an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and well-being of millions of rural and urban households who are net food buyers. Around the world, Oxfam International and many of its partners have seen soaring prices force people […]

Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

Keywords

Overview

On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

Book

Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

Book

Renewing Our Voice: Code of good practice for NGO’s responding to HIV and AIDS

01/12/2004

4 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Over the last twenty years, there has been a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the multiple challenges presented by HIV and AIDS: NGOs undertaking HIV and AIDS work; NGOs integrating HIV and AIDS-specific interventions within other health programming; and NGOs mainstreaming HIV and AIDS within development, human […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Building Trust in Diverse Teams: The toolkit for emergency response

30/11/2007

1 documents

160 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features a Trust Index, to assess and measure trust within diverse […]