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Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Research report

Tourism’s Dirty Secret: The exploitation of hotel housekeepers

17/10/2017

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Tourism is booming and generates millions of jobs for women around the world. Yet the hotel industry exemplifies the vast inequality of today’s world. The women who make hotel beds and clean hotel toilets labour long hours for meagre pay, face sexual harassment and intimidation, are exposed daily to toxic chemicals and live in fear […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Case study

Seizing an opportunity to support farmers: How Oxfam helped create Bolivia’s first national comprehensive agricultural insurance scheme

25/09/2013

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This is the story of how Oxfam in Bolivia took considerable risks to help a sympathetic government create a national agricultural insurance scheme. This involved weathering a political storm and carefully navigating the difficult space between the government and popular organizations. Oxfam’s work in Bolivia shows how important it is to seize opportunities, to change […]

Research report

Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards: Are banks and investors doing enough to ensure the energy transition is fair for all?

17/11/2025

2 documents

164 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As the world seeks to transition towards cleaner forms of energy in response to climate change, the pressure to extract more critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and graphite has surged. These minerals are vital to sectors like energy, digital tech, healthcare, defense, and space, yet their supply chains are complex and fragile. […]

Briefing note

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

26/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The situation for Aboriginal people and land rights in the Kimberley is a case study on the contradictory nature of Indigenous policy in Australia. The most vulnerable Australians have to fight – sometimes for decades – to be formally recognized under law as traditional landowners; only to come up against a wall of red tape, […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Journal article

Islam and development practice: HIV/AIDS in South Africa

01/08/2012

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of religion in development is often neglected, whether this refers to the faith of intended beneficiaries, provides staff and volunteers with a motivation for involvement in development practice or influences the design and implementation of projects. This paper examines how Islam provides guidance for development practice, with a focus on addressing HIV/AIDS, using […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Research report

Tourism’s Dirty Secret: The exploitation of hotel housekeepers

17/10/2017

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Tourism is booming and generates millions of jobs for women around the world. Yet the hotel industry exemplifies the vast inequality of today’s world. The women who make hotel beds and clean hotel toilets labour long hours for meagre pay, face sexual harassment and intimidation, are exposed daily to toxic chemicals and live in fear […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Case study

Seizing an opportunity to support farmers: How Oxfam helped create Bolivia’s first national comprehensive agricultural insurance scheme

25/09/2013

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This is the story of how Oxfam in Bolivia took considerable risks to help a sympathetic government create a national agricultural insurance scheme. This involved weathering a political storm and carefully navigating the difficult space between the government and popular organizations. Oxfam’s work in Bolivia shows how important it is to seize opportunities, to change […]

Research report

Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards: Are banks and investors doing enough to ensure the energy transition is fair for all?

17/11/2025

2 documents

164 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As the world seeks to transition towards cleaner forms of energy in response to climate change, the pressure to extract more critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and graphite has surged. These minerals are vital to sectors like energy, digital tech, healthcare, defense, and space, yet their supply chains are complex and fragile. […]

Briefing note

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

26/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The situation for Aboriginal people and land rights in the Kimberley is a case study on the contradictory nature of Indigenous policy in Australia. The most vulnerable Australians have to fight – sometimes for decades – to be formally recognized under law as traditional landowners; only to come up against a wall of red tape, […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Journal article

Islam and development practice: HIV/AIDS in South Africa

01/08/2012

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of religion in development is often neglected, whether this refers to the faith of intended beneficiaries, provides staff and volunteers with a motivation for involvement in development practice or influences the design and implementation of projects. This paper examines how Islam provides guidance for development practice, with a focus on addressing HIV/AIDS, using […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

Research report

Tourism’s Dirty Secret: The exploitation of hotel housekeepers

17/10/2017

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Tourism is booming and generates millions of jobs for women around the world. Yet the hotel industry exemplifies the vast inequality of today’s world. The women who make hotel beds and clean hotel toilets labour long hours for meagre pay, face sexual harassment and intimidation, are exposed daily to toxic chemicals and live in fear […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Best Practice Guide: For community organisations working with sanctuary-seeking women in Wales

01/11/2011

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

There are roughly 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Life can be extremely tough for sanctuary seeking women. Many are forced to flee their homes because they have been subjected to serious human rights abuses related to their gender, such as rape, threats of honour killing and domestic violence. This suffering is compounded, once […]

Case study

Seizing an opportunity to support farmers: How Oxfam helped create Bolivia’s first national comprehensive agricultural insurance scheme

25/09/2013

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This is the story of how Oxfam in Bolivia took considerable risks to help a sympathetic government create a national agricultural insurance scheme. This involved weathering a political storm and carefully navigating the difficult space between the government and popular organizations. Oxfam’s work in Bolivia shows how important it is to seize opportunities, to change […]

Research report

Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards: Are banks and investors doing enough to ensure the energy transition is fair for all?

17/11/2025

2 documents

164 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As the world seeks to transition towards cleaner forms of energy in response to climate change, the pressure to extract more critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and graphite has surged. These minerals are vital to sectors like energy, digital tech, healthcare, defense, and space, yet their supply chains are complex and fragile. […]

Briefing note

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

26/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The situation for Aboriginal people and land rights in the Kimberley is a case study on the contradictory nature of Indigenous policy in Australia. The most vulnerable Australians have to fight – sometimes for decades – to be formally recognized under law as traditional landowners; only to come up against a wall of red tape, […]

Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Georgia: Promoting children and youth as agents of change – My Rights, My Voice

21/11/2014

3 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in May 2014 which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The ‘Promoting children and youth as agents of change’ project in Georgia is part of the […]

Journal article

Islam and development practice: HIV/AIDS in South Africa

01/08/2012

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The role of religion in development is often neglected, whether this refers to the faith of intended beneficiaries, provides staff and volunteers with a motivation for involvement in development practice or influences the design and implementation of projects. This paper examines how Islam provides guidance for development practice, with a focus on addressing HIV/AIDS, using […]

Book

Population and Reproductive Rights

01/01/1996

1 documents

67 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services […]

Journal article

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

01/03/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS can no longer be viewed as a pandemic. It is in fact emerging as multiple epidemics. These epidemics vary from country to country, region to region and continent to continent. As a body of knowledge develops on HIV/AIDS and responses to it in sub-Saharan Africa, care is necessary when considering the experience of HIV/AIDS […]