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Book

The Karamoja Conflict: Origins, impacts and solutions

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has worked in Uganda for over 20 years. When, in 1999, the Karamoja Programme Manager was shot at within a few metres of the project offices, Oxfam realised that no serious and sustained development work could take place in the absence of peace and security. Because conflict and insecurity are a constant reality in […]

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Book

Ethiopia: Breaking new ground

01/01/2003

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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This book celebrates the rich cultures of an ancient society, and describes its people’s efforts to revive their land. Times are hard: the years of war, drought, and political oppression in the 1980s left soils exhausted, schools and hospitals derelict, and communities fragmented. But the first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Action Against Small Arms: A resource and training handbook

01/01/2003

6 documents

218 pages long

Languages: English

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The uncontrolled spread and misuse of small arms and light weapons constitute a crisis of global proportions. They destroy both lives and livelihoods; they are a threat to peace and development, to democracy and human rights. Since the mid-1990s, civil-society groups and some progressive governments have begun to develop measures to combat the crisis. This […]

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Book

Pakistan: Tradition and change

01/01/2003

4 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

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Many dramatic developments have taken place in Pakistan since the publication of the first edition of Oxfam’s Profile (Pakistan Tradition and Change, 1996). The original text, which describes Pakistan’s history and rich cultural heritage, and self-help community schemes run by grassroots groups, is reproduced in full, with its evocative illustrations. In addition, this up-dated edition […]

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Briefing note

Major Food Crisis in Mauritania

05/12/2002

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, rainfall has been poor in the Western part of the Sahel in West Africa. Mauritania has been the hardest hit, in some regions of the country, it is the third consecutive year of poor rains. Now some 750,000 people are already affected by food shortages, nearly 30 per cent of the country’s population.

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Briefing paper

Forgotten Villages: Struggling to survive under closure in the West Bank

05/09/2002

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam is deeply concerned about the appalling toll being paid by the civilian population on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Oxfam is committed to the impartial applicability of international humanitarian and human rights law, especially the right of all civilians to protection from violence. We believe that a just solution to the current conflict […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Learning About Livelihoods: Insights from Southern Africa

01/08/2002

1 documents

389 pages long

Languages: English

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The Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods project (DiMP) was developed by the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, along with partner organisations in southern Africa. This comprehensive guide to applying the livelihoods approach to the practice of disaster risk reduction – a direct outcome of the project – comprises […]

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Journal article

Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs

01/08/2002

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This paper discusses the implications for organisational learning of recent research on NGO activity in natural disaster mitigation and preparedness. It identifies several institutional and other barriers to NGO learning. However, personal networks in NGOs are often strong, and determined and well-placed individuals can push significant innovations through. Greater emphasis on this human factor may […]

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Journal article

The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project

01/08/2002

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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If aid is found to support a war effort, should aid agencies and practitioners continue to give it? The resounding answer given by aid workers all over the world is that the needs of suffering people are too important to ignore and, further, that there can be no justification for not assisting suffering people. But […]

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Journal article

Should development agencies have Official Views?

01/08/2002

13 pages long

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The major development agencies have ex cathedra ‘Official Views’ (with varying degrees of explicitness) on the complex and controversial questions of development. At the same time, knowledge is now more than ever recognised as key to development–in the idea of a ‘knowledge bank’ or knowledge-based development assistance. The author argues that these two practices are […]

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