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Case study

Unilever: Building a black soy bean supply chain in Java, Indonesia

19/05/2009

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study provides an example of a company working with smallholder farmers through enterprise development to secure supplies of raw materials and to build its own brand, while benefiting farmers in terms of improved incomes and a guaranteed market for their produce.

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Case study

Developing Business Enterprises and Linkages with Small Farmers in Hambantota, Southern Sri Lanka

19/05/2009

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This case study illustrates how a Sri Lankan Agro-based company is growing its business and adapting its business model to develop a stronger and more reliable supply base through working with multiple stakeholders, including government, NGOs, and farmer groups, as well as with other businesses.

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Case study

Sodexo Madagascar: Creating linkages between local producers and the mining sector

19/05/2009

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study provides an example of a company building community supply chains by working with local partners.

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Issue briefing

A Business Case for Fighting Poverty

01/05/2009

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Action on poverty can benefit business performance, as well as building a better world in which to operate. This is the second paper in Oxfam’s Briefings for Business; series, which aims to develop the debate on the role of the private sector in poverty reduction by offering ideas and insights into topical poverty issues and […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation Synthesis: Outcomes and lessons learned from Oxfam GB’s livelihoods programme evaluations 2006-2008

01/05/2009

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This report synthesises the results and lessons learned in 40 evaluations of Oxfam GB’s Sustainable Livelihoods programmes in the calendar years 2006 to 2008. It constitutes part of Oxfam GB’s newly instituted annual process of programme evaluation syntheses that summarise outcomes and identify good practices’ for different programme areas with a view to informing organisational […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Cotton Textile Supply Chain Programme and Potential for Scale-up in Hyderabad, India

01/05/2009

2 documents

86 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Oxfam’s Cotton-Textile Supply Chain (CTSC) programme in India is based on the knowledge that poor communities are connected to each other by supply chains. Through them, poor people can enhance their power in the market, resulting in higher incomes, better control of working conditions and more control over their lives. A multi stakeholder collaborative project […]

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Journal article

Perceptions and practices of farmer empowerment in Tanzania

01/05/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The purpose of this article is to review the implementation of various empowerment interventions in Tanzania. Data for the review are based on field visits to programmes/projects/organisations involved in implementing empowerment interventions in various regions of the country. These visits involved key-informant interviews, sample surveys, and focus-group discussions with farmers. The review highlights the perceptions […]

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Briefing paper

Close to Home : UK poverty and the economic downturn

08/04/2009

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The UK is in recession, and things stand to get much worse for the fifth of the population already living in poverty, and for the millions more whose livelihoods will become more vulnerable as a result. The UK government has recognised its responsibility to help people through the recession, but needs to do more to […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Stories of Change Project ‘Haiti – Let Agogo’

01/04/2009

2 documents

83 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Let Agogo is a dairy network project, established in 1999 by leading Haitian animal health NGO Determined and supported by OGB since its start. Let Agogo has built a robust national network of 13 dairies that turn local producers’ milk into yoghurt, sterilised/pasteurised milk, and cheese, and which then sell these finished goods for profit […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of ‘Stories of Change’ Goat and Irrigation Projects in Malawi

01/04/2009

3 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Part of the 2009 ‘Stories of Change’ initiative to document and promote Oxfam’s programme results more effectively, this evaluation focuses on Oxfam’s livelihood rehabilitation programme in Malawi. The programme includes a goat distribution scheme (operational between 2005-2006 in the Thyolo district), and two irrigation schemes (constructed between 2005- 2007 in the Thyolo and Mulanje districts). […]

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