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Briefing paper

The European Union: A potential global force for change

01/09/2000

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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The EU has reached a turning point in the way it relates to the rest of the world. Changes in the global political and economic landscape following the cold war, along with widespread criticism of the wasteful and inefficient use of aid, has forced the EU to take a closer look at its external relations. […]

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Journal article

Aid: a mixed blessing

01/08/2000

6 pages long

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Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and […]

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Journal article

Does Matson matter? Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project

01/08/2000

17 pages long

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The question of how development agencies should assess their impact has no simple answers and so is often either unasked, or is framed in terms that privilege time-bound and quantitative findings. Describing a council estate neighbourhood project in the UK, the author probes the understandings and perceptions of different stakeholders concerning what they believe has […]

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Journal article

NGOs, disasters, and advocacy: caught between the Prophet and the Shepherd Boy

01/08/2000

11 pages long

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Is it preferable for aid agencies to listen to their prophetic calling and risk their hard-earned credibility by engaging in advocacy that is intended to avert disasters, or should NGOs instead be wary of calling wolf too often? Written from the perspective of an advocacy practitioner, this article looks at the conflicting pressures on NGOs […]

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Journal article

Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice

01/08/2000

10 pages long

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Capacity building is now one of the most frequently invoked of current development concepts and yet it continues to defy a shared definition of what it means in practice. Is it possible that capacity building demands such a radically new form of practice, such a radically new form of thinking, that our current approaches are […]

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Briefing paper

Winning the Peace? Some lessons from the EU’s aid to South Eastern Europe, June 1999 – June 2000

06/06/2000

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam International welcomes the commitment the EU has shown recently to improving its institutions for crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction. However, one key area of weakness in EU policy and practice has not been addressed in the recent proposals for institutional and policy development. In its work in South Eastern Europe, the EU has failed […]

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Briefing paper

National Strategy for the Neighbourhood Renewal: A framework for consultation

01/06/2000

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Participation

Overview

This response is based on Oxfam’s work both in the UK and overseas, and in particular on its work in conjunction with partner organisations on issues of rights and participation. Oxfam welcomes the opportunity to take part in the consultation on the draft framework for a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal.

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Briefing paper

An End to Forgotten Emergencies?

17/05/2000

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Currently, there are perhaps over 20 million people affected by drought in parts of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Around 8 million people are at risk from drought in Ethiopia, among 12 million people across the Horn of Africa. In February and March, international attention focused on the thousands of Mozambicans affected by floods. All these […]

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Discussion paper

Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities: Lessons from Mexico and Central America

01/01/2000

1 documents

79 pages long

Languages: English

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Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities records an exercise carried out by Oxfam GB to map out the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed, and to relate these to the complex social, economic, political, and cultural factors that make some social sectors more vulnerable than others […]

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Discussion paper

Listening to the Displaced: Action research in the conflict zones of Sri Lanka

01/01/2000

1 documents

69 pages long

Languages: English

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Intense conflict in northern Sri Lanka between government forces and the secessionist Tamil Tigers has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes. Their living conditions are harsh and insecure, despite the efforts of humanitarian agencies to alleviate them. In 1996 Oxfam GB began the first in a series of annual surveys to assess […]

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