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Where Does the Money Go: Citizen participation in Turkana County, Kenya

30/05/2012

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study is about Oxfam’s work with the Turkana people, who live in one of Kenya’s poorest counties. Kenya has a system of devolved budgets, which in theory gives local people the opportunity to become involved in local authority funding of community projects. However, initial surveys found that in fact few people knew about […]

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Missing Medicines in Malawi: Campaigning against stock-outs of essential drugs

30/05/2012

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. The government has introduced some measures to improve the health of its people, but a number of major problems remain. One of these is the lack of essential medicines in government health clinics – known as ‘stock-outs’. These medicines should be free to poor people, […]

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Local Governance and Community Action: How poor and marginalized people can achieve change

30/05/2012

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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Most people experience the impacts of governance, fair or unfair, at a very local level. It is where poor and marginalized people, including women, experience inequalities most keenly – in the way that issues that particularly concern them tend to get de-prioritized and their participation is obstructed. In most political systems it is also at […]

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Nothing is Impossible: The Raising Her Voice programme in Nepal

30/05/2012

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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Women in Nepal experience discrimination in all areas of their lives. The goal of Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme is to ensure that public policy making reflects the interests of poor and marginalized women in the country, especially by increasing their participation and influence in community decision-making bodies that have a particular impact on their […]

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Citizens Wake Up: The Chukua Hatua (Take Action) programme in Tanzania

30/05/2012

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Effective community participation in local governance in Tanzania is not an easy process. Power is centralized, and few people are prepared to speak out. That is why the Chukua Hatua (Take Action) programme is so exciting. This case study – one of a series of Programme Insights on Local Governance and Community Action – outlines […]

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No Longer Sitting Quietly: Building space for community participation in Vietnam

30/05/2012

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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For most people in Vietnam, living conditions have steadily improved since the doi moi reforms began in 1986. But inequalities continue to widen, especially between people living in rural and urban areas, and between majority and minority ethnic groups. And local people, especially if they come from a minority group, still have little say in […]

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Where Does the Money Go: Citizen participation in Turkana County, Kenya

Missing Medicines in Malawi: Campaigning against stock-outs of essential drugs

Local Governance and Community Action: How poor and marginalized people can achieve change

Nothing is Impossible: The Raising Her Voice programme in Nepal

Citizens Wake Up: The Chukua Hatua (Take Action) programme in Tanzania

No Longer Sitting Quietly: Building space for community participation in Vietnam