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Research report

The UK Doughnut: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice

19/02/2015

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, while living within our environmental limits. These two concerns are brought together in Oxfam’s Doughnut model, which visualizes a space between planetary boundaries and a social floor where it is environmentally safe and socially just for humanity to exist. Here, The UK […]

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Education resource

Climate Challenge for 11-14 years: Explore the human impact of climate change

16/02/2015

18 documents

Languages: English, Welsh

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Our Climate Challenge resources for 11–14 years old focus on the human impact of climate change: how communities around the world are being affected by climate change and how people are responding and adapting to these challenges. The activities link to a number of curricular areas including science, English and geography. Explore and develop existing […]

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Evaluation report

Oxfam Sense Making Exercise for a Selection of Evaluations 2013-2014

01/02/2015

4 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document reviews a sample of evaluations carried out between January 2013 and October 2014; it is an exercise required by Oxfam’s Policy of Program Evaluation. The findings tell us about the nature of Oxfam’s programming, helping identify strengths and weaknesses, and lessons, from our programs; the report includes remarks on our evaluation quality. The review is motivated […]

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Education resource

Climate Challenge for 7-11 years: Explore the human impact of climate change

12/01/2015

18 documents

Languages: English

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Our Climate Challenge resources for 7–11 year olds focus on the human impact of climate change: how communities around the world are being affected by climate change and how people are responding and adapting to these challenges. The activities link to a number of curricular areas including science, English and geography. Explore and develop existing […]

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Issue briefing

The Impact of Coffee Rust: Assessment of livelihoods and food security of families working in El Salvador’s coffee sector

05/12/2014

3 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Since 2013, an outbreak of coffee rust disease in a large proportion of El Salvador's coffee plants has affected the food security and livelihoods of families dependent on day labour on coffee plantations. With the support of partners and donors, Oxfam carried out an assessment to measure the impact in areas of the country where […]

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Research report

From Words to Facts: Acting on climate change in Central America

04/12/2014

2 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Central American countries contribute little to climate change, but will endure some of its most negative consequences. As well as greatly affecting food production and the life of farming and indigenous communities, it will also increase the magnitude and frequency of extreme climatic events that impact the region. With the support of partners, this research […]

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Briefing paper

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

01/12/2014

6 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance is fundamental to a fair and effective global climate agreement. Too few countries have delivered on their obligations. As a result, the world’s poorest people have not benefitted from the necessary investment, and climate finance has been a major obstacle to achieving a global climate change agreement. This paper suggests a new approach […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Nepal: Evaluation of mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and enhancing response capability

21/11/2014

3 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, selected for review under the resilience thematic area. This report documents the findings of a quasi-experimental evaluation carried out in September 2013 that sought to assess the impact of the activities of the ‘Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and enhancing response capability’ project in […]

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Evaluation report

Policy Influence in the Russian Federation: Evaluation of advocacy and campaigning on climate change

21/11/2014

3 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14, randomly selected for review under the policy influence thematic area. This report documents the findings of a qualitative impact evaluation, carried out from March to July 2014. The evaluation used process tracing to assess the effectiveness of the ‘Advocacy and campaigning on Climate […]

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Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Malawi: Building the resilience and enhancing the adaptive capacity of women and men to climate change and climate variability

21/11/2014

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This accountability review is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2013/14. The report documents the findings from a review carried out in March 2014, which examines the degree to which Oxfam meets its own standards for accountability. The project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of 8,000 households of poor women and men […]

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