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Bringing Clean Energy and Co-Benefits to Remote Communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

03/02/2021

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24 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits, including increased incomes, improved food security and community well-being, reduced deforestation, improved health from […]

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Metrocables in Medellín, Colombia: An innovative, inclusive, and green transit system

27/01/2021

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23 pages long

Languages: English

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Spatial inequality is closely linked to wider social inequality and lack of mobility or access to transport can turn spatial marginalization into deeper social exclusion. The case shows how accessible, affordable urban transport schemes run on clean energy can generate multiple co-benefits, simultaneously reducing poverty, social exclusion and carbon emissions. It also highlights the important […]

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How Oxfam Has Worked With Unilever to Enhance its Social Impact

22/01/2021

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31 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study is notable for how one of the UK’s foremost companies, Unilever, engaged with Oxfam’s request to conduct a ‘gap analysis’ between the company’s labour rights policies and the reality on the ground for workers. Following the research in Vietnam, for which the company provided unprecedented access to its staff and suppliers, Unilever […]

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Avoiding Day Zero: How Cape Town cut its water usage by 50% in three years

07/01/2021

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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The city of Cape Town in South Africa successfully reduced its water use by more than half in three years. The case demonstrates that resource consumption can be reduced substantially and maintained at lower levels over a long period of time, at least in the face of an imminent threat of shortages.Cape Town’sexperience is directly […]

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A Quiet Revolution: Land justice for Miskito Indigenous peoples in Honduras

26/11/2020

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21 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study tells the story of the Miskito Indigenous people’s struggle in Honduras to regain land taken from them during the colonial period which has benefitted around 90,000 people. The eventual restoration and legal protection of their rights to ancestral land and to self-governance has righted a historical injustice and provided them with more […]

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Strengthening Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan

24/11/2020

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30 pages long

Languages: English

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The Strengthening Women’s Political participation initiative built on a long struggle for women’s rights in Pakistan. Raising Her Voice (RHV) was one of the first global campaigns to address both invisible and visible structural causes of gender injustice. It sought to challenge social norms, empower women, increase their political participation and change government policy. In […]

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The World Fair Trade Organization: Scaling equitable business models

20/11/2020

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26 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows how fair trade and other mission-led enterprises can be economically viable while simultaneously generating important social and environmental benefits. In contrast to conventional business models which prioritize short-term financial returns to shareholders, mission-led businesses put social and environmental goals on a par with economic ones, thereby overcoming a key structural driver […]

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Securing Protection for Domestic Workers in Bangladesh

17/11/2020

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows that it is possible to achieve change for even the poorest and most marginalised women in the face of adversity. It is an example of a ground-breaking policy that offers rights and protections to domestic workers in Bangladesh who had recently been explicitly excluded in the country's Labour Act. It was […]

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MenCare in Rwanda: Engaging fathers in transforming gender relations

10/11/2020

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23 pages long

Languages: English

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The case study shows how MenCare, a global campaign to help increase men’s active involvement in care giving, has spread to 100 partners in over 50 countries. In Rwanda, the campaign has reduced men’s use of violence against their partners and children; increased men’s contributions to child-care; and equalized power dynamics and decision making in […]

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Empowering Women to Upgrade Their Homes: Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (India)

30/10/2020

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28 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study tells the inspiring story of the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT) in India, a grassroots NGO originally born from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). MHT works with women living in urban informal settlements to get access to services such as water, sanitation and electricity and secure tenure rights and property titles. Using […]

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