Approach and methodology Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing note

The Case for SDG 6 in a Post-COVID-19 World: How targeted investment in water and sanitation can boost resilience

22/03/2023

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam and Unilever commissioned this research to test the hypothesis that increased investment in sustainable WASH access can help to improve preparedness towards any future global pandemic. By strengthening health and economic outcomes now, we also lessen the potential impact of future pandemics. The right investment breaks the cycle of low resilience leading to more […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Inclusive Language Guide

13/03/2023

1 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

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Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that we do not forget the role of language and communications in the context of inequality. The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Group Cash Transfer (GCT) Approach: Learning report on GCT pilots

27/01/2023

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides resources in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups to implement projects that contribute to the immediate survival and recovery needs of a crisis-affected population, benefiting either a sub-section of the community or the community at large. With funding from Oxfam […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Group Cash Transfer (GCT) Fact Sheet

27/01/2023

1 documents

1 pages long

Languages: English

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This factsheet describes how the Group Cash Transfer (GCT) approach seeks to transfer power to crisis-affected populations or community groups by transferring cash directly to selected groups and enabling them to respond to their needs and priorities. It emphasizes on how GCTs facilitate a shift away from sectoral silos and support both cross-cutting agendas and […]

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Research report

Decolonize! What does it mean?

15/12/2022

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures. These movements led by Indigenous Peoples, people of color, women, and queer people articulate and define the possibilities of decolonial […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Delivering Better together: Standard Operating Procedures for Oxfam’s Approach to Cash and Voucher Assistance

06/07/2022

1 documents

204 pages long

Languages: English

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Cash and voucher assistance

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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) puts people at the centre of responses and enables Oxfam and other humanitarian actors to think differently and deliver better. CVA is now widely accepted by the humanitarian community as a tool to deliver greater choice, flexibility, and empowerment to those affected by crisis, while strengthening local markets and systems. […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Unlocking Digital Cash and Voucher Assistance: A guide to digital options

06/07/2022

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Digital technology has facilitated greater efficiency, transparency, adaptability and scalability of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programs. Wherever feasible, Oxfam increasingly uses and promotes digital solutions and modalities to create better outcomes for CVA recipients through easier, faster and more secure and accountable means of delivery. This toolkit is designed to help CVA practitioners and decision […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Co-Creation Toolkit: From design to implementation

22/06/2022

16 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Co-creation is a collaborative practice for developing an initiative. It is a way to strengthen the individual and collective power of stakeholders to create innovative solutions to targeted issues, while creating opportunities for synergy between different groups or teams that sometimes work in silos. This toolbox is made up of eight summary sheets explaining the principles of […]

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Briefing paper

What can we learn? Case studies on the triple nexus in West Africa

28/02/2022

4 documents

21 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The triple nexus (H-D-P) approach aims to challenge a linear and sequential intervention logic. Humanitarian aid, development programmes and peacebuilding programmes must be implemented simultaneously to address the systemic inequalities and weaknesses that keep people in poverty and make them vulnerable. This paradigm shift requires major transformations in both the humanitarian and development sectors. These […]

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