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Discussion paper

Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?

28/06/2012

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What role can companies play in strengthening the capacity of small-scale producers in developing countries to adapt to climate change, and in doing so, make their global value chains more resilient? While some leading companies have made progress in taking greater responsibility for what happens throughout their supply chains, there has been little discussion about […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis: A practitioner’s guide

01/06/2012

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s participatory capacity and vulnerability analysis (PCVA) tool is a risk analysis process designed to help staff and partner organisations engage with communities in contexts where natural disasters are significant drivers of poverty and suffering. PCVA has its roots in two proven social development methodologies. First, it stems from capacity and vulnerability analysis (CVA) methodology. […]

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Case study

Promoting Gender Equality in Disaster Risk Reduction: Oxfam’s Experiences in Southeast Asia

01/05/2012

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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This compilation of case studies illustrates the close ties between our concern for gender equality and our efforts in humanitarian crises and disaster risk reduction (DRR). They do not claim to be comprehensive, but simply reflect some recent Oxfam experiences in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. They are examples of how natural hazards like cyclones […]

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Education resource

Heroes and Heroines: Explore the 2012 Olympic Games

01/05/2012

2 documents

Languages: English

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Use the Olympic and Paralympic games to explore the values of respect, excellence, friendship and equality. Consider what makes a hero or a heroine and explore case studies of people who have made the world fairer. With separate packs for primary and secondary teachers, these resources include creative curriculum-linked teaching ideas for Literacy, PSHE, Citizenship, […]

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Journal article

Beating storms and droughts: the Erdenedalai weather network in the Mongolian Gobi

01/02/2012

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Although herders in Mongolia are embracing modernity, their livelihoods remain largely dependent on the weather and resulting grassland conditions. In recent years, natural resource degradation has made livestock production more risky. Severe weather events such as storms, droughts, and extremely harsh winters have been on the increase. Timely and adequate weather forecasts could help herders […]

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Briefing paper

Left Behind by the G20? How inequality and environmental degradation threaten to exclude poor people from the benefits of economic growth

19/01/2012

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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The G20 is committed to supporting equitable and sustainable growth. But new data shows that a lot needs to change if they are to live up to this pledge. The stakes are high: analysis in this paper suggests that without attention to growing inequality, strong growth is unlikely to be enough to prevent poverty increasing […]

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Research report

Climate Finance: A tool-kit for assessing climate mitigation and adaptation funding mechanisms

07/12/2011

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Developed countries have committed to raising $100 billion a year to help finance climate mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries. Where will this money come from? The new report from Institute of Development Studies and Stamp Out Poverty looks at this question. It develops a tool-kit to enable interested parties to assess and compare […]

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Book

Climate Change Liability: Transnational law and practice

03/12/2011

8 documents

710 pages long

Languages: English

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As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, […]

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Book

Managing Water Locally: An essential dimension of community water development

08/11/2011

1 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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Communities are frequently excluded from important aspects of environmental management. But they can play a fundamental role in the management of common pool resources such as water. This is particularly true when state capacity is weak or when communities remain on the periphery of support from any government. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has been […]

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Issue briefing

Gender and the Green Climate Fund

18/07/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Women are on the front line of coping with, and adapting to, the effects of climate change. Both climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses affect women and men differently. Yet current climate finance institutions almost entirely ignore gender issues. The Green Climate Fund cannot afford to make the same mistake. Many agree the […]

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