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It shows that with the right business opportunities and training, women working in rural agriculture can be savvy business people, innovators, breadwinners, and community leaders. View resource Case study Bringing clarity to troubled waters: How Oxfam is facilitating change in water and sanitation management in Tajikistan 25/09/2013 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Health promotion Health systems Livelihoods Resource scarcity Welfare Wellbeing Overview In Tajikistan, water is a key resource in emergencies, and for irrigation and drinking water, yet its management is chaotic, which often leads to breakdowns in water supply systems. Many communities have resorted to taking drinking water directly from irrigation canals and rivers. Oxfam has been working for nearly three years with the government and […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Climate change adaptation Community building Development methods Fair trade Labour standards Land rights Livelihoods Natural resources Participation Smallholder agriculture Wellbeing Women farmers 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 […] View resource Case study Scaling of small producers’ markets in 24 municipalities: How Oxfam helped create a network of local farmers’ markets in Columbia 25/09/2013 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Business Community building Development methods Economic empowerment Economic growth Education financing Enterprise Enterprise development Finance Food prices Food production Food security Investment Land rights Livelihoods Local Government Markets Participation Smallholder agriculture Sustainable livelihoods approach Welfare Wellbeing Overview This case study shares the experience of the Colombia Economic Justice Programme in implementing a leveraging strategy – to replicate the flagship experience of Bogotá in the creation and consolidation of alternative, direct, and fair marketing channels operating between rural producers and urban consumers – which produced effective scaling in 24 municipalities of the central […] View resource Case study Taking the long view: Transforming the way community water management is viewed and conducted in northern Kenya 25/09/2013 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Debt relief Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Disasters Drought DRR Early warning system Fair trade Floods Food prices Food production Food reserves Food security Health promotion Health systems Livelihoods Programme management WASH Water and sanitation Wellbeing Overview For several years, Oxfam has been working with communities in Turkana and Wajir, Kenya, building the capacity of local water committees to better manage their water supplies and hold higher authorities to account. Instead of short incentive-based workshops with little follow-up, Oxfam has taken a longer-term approach by developing a toolkit to provide regular training […] View resource Case study The Yemen cash transfer programme: How Oxfam used social welfare fund lists and the Post Office system to distribute funds and rebuild donor trust 25/09/2013 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Cash transfers Finance Livelihoods Local Government Media Welfare Wellbeing World Trade Organisation WTO Overview In October 2011, Oxfam partnered with the Social Welfare Fund and the Post Office in Al Hodeidah governorate in Yemen to deliver cash transfers to vulnerable households during a period of worsening food crisis. With other donors stalling and expressing a lack of trust in this approach, the Oxfam team had to work hard to […] View resource Case study A Healthy influence: How Oxfam convened partners to influence Zambia’s elections with the campaign message ‘vote health for all’ and saw a 45 per cent boost to the national health care budget 25/09/2013 1 documents 6 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Access to medicines Community building Food security Health promotion Health systems Livelihoods Local Government Programme management Protection Sustainable livelihoods approach Welfare Wellbeing Overview This case study describes how Oxfam seized upon a crucial political opportunity, and worked with national partners in the lead-up to Zambia’s 2011 election to campaign for better access to health care. The ‘vote health for all’ campaign supported communities to raise their concerns about health care at a national level and pressed for increased […] View resource Spotted an error? Let us know