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Five Critical Factors for Working Well in Partnerships

31/05/2016

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8 pages long

Languages: English

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What are the critical factors in managing a good partnership? My experience coordinating the REE-CALL (Resilience through Economic Empowerment, Climate Change Adaptation, Leadership and Learning) programme in Bangladesh over the past five years has taught me that no matter how big the programme, or how complex, success depends on five critical factors. Partnering for Impact […]

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Case study

How We Set Up a Network of Partners to Achieve Greater Influence

31/05/2016

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper examines how networking and networks can be used as a tool to develop partnerships. This analysis aims to answer several key questions, such as: ‘Why is networking important?’ ‘How will networking impact the development of projects and activities?’ Partnering for Impact series To do the work it does, Oxfam works closely with partners […]

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Case study

Comment bien gérer un partenariat dans le cadre d’une intervention humanitaire

31/05/2016

2 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Durant deux années, Haïti est frappé successivement de plusieurs catastrophes, le cout humain est considérable, comment faire face? Oxfam tente alors de renouer des liens avec une organisation locale avec qui il y avait eu des différends dans le passé. série « Partnering for Impact » Le partenariat est le pilier de la façon dont Oxfam conçoit […]

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Research report

Evaluation of General Mills’ and Kellogg’s GHG Emissions Targets and Plans: Independent Assessment conducted by Winston Eco-Strategies for Oxfam’s Behind the Brands Initiative

25/05/2016

1 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Extreme weather is threatening food supply chains around the world. The food and agriculture sector has a significant stake in mitigating climate change but is also responsible for up to 25 percent of total global emissions. The largest food and beverage companies have responded to the challenge, in part by setting targets to reduce emissions, […]

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Technical briefing

Setting and Implementing Science-Based Targets: Recommendations for food and beverage companies

25/05/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The food and beverage sector is both a significant driver of global climate change and among the sectors most adversely affected. Food and beverage companies have a major role in reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and in ensuring that the long term mitigation goal established in Paris at COP 21 is translated into action. […]

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Issue briefing

Hot, Hungry and Starved of Investment: Supporting smallholders to build a climate-resilient agricultural sector in southern Africa

24/05/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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As the African Development Bank meets in southern Africa, one of the strongest and most sustained El Nino events on record – turbocharged by climate change – is causing severe drought, failed harvests and a hunger crisis across the region. This is being made worse by record high temperatures as a result of global warming. […]

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Briefing note

Unfinished Business: How to close the post-Paris adaptation finance gap

16/05/2016

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Climate change is a brutal reality confronting millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their need for financial support to adapt to climate extremes is urgent and rising. International support for adaptation falls well short of what is needed. Latest estimates indicate that only 16 percent of international climate finance is currently dedicated to adaptation […]

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Evaluation report

Climate change, equity, and stranded assets

09/05/2016

1 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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International equity concerns around climate change have focused on the notion of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ as a means to ensure that developing countries do not shoulder an undue burden as the global economy is decarbonized.

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Evaluation report

Climate Change Vulnerability And Risk Analysis In The Bobirwa Sub-District, Botswana: Towards improving livelihood adaptation to climate

22/04/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2015, ASSAR’s southern Africa researchers – from the University of Botswana, University of Cape Town, University of Namibia and Oxfam GB – conducted a two-day Vulnerability Risk Assessment (VRA) workshop in Bobirwa, Botswana. The workshop was attended by various government officials, Village Development Committee members, local community members and representatives from farmer committees, […]

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Issue briefing

What Will Become of Us? Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino

13/04/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014-15 that have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather system in 2015-16. This number is likely to rise. The international response is working, but much more is […]

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