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SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Changing sanitation and hygiene habits through a club in Matongo, DRC

01/04/2016

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2 pages long

Languages: English

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In the past, sanitation was poor and illnesses such as diarrhoea were rife in Matongo, a semi-urban village in South Kivu. Defecation used to take place mostly in the bush, hand-washing with soap or ash wasn’t practised, the importance of hygiene in preparing food wasn’t understood, and discarded rubbish rotted in the roads. Under the […]

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SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Inspiring improvements in health and hygiene through a club in Mwandiga, DRC

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In the past, residents of Mwandiga I, a semi-urban village in South Kivu, had no access to clean water, instead using water from Lake Tanganyika for drinking, washing and cooking. Defecation took place mostly in the surrounding bush, hand-washing with soap or ash wasn’t practised, and the importance of good hygiene wasn’t understood. Now, however, […]

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SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Supporting community-led committees to transform the village of Soya, DRC

01/04/2016

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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In the past, residents of Soya in North Kivu relied for water on a stream during the dry season. Few families had access to a latrine; most would defecate in the bush near their houses, and hand-washing was rare. Illnesses such as diarrhoea, stomach aches and skin problems, on the other hand, were common. Under […]

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Stories of Change: Through the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES)

01/04/2016

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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The Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) is a collaborative partnership between Oxfam Australia’s Southern Africa office and a group of South African-based organisations working at a grassroots level to affect social change. The breadth of issues these organisations tackle is diverse and includes health, sustainable livelihoods which typically involves food security and income-generating activities, early childhood development (ECD), […]

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Briefing paper

A Case for Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Myanmar

24/03/2016

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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A country’s budget can be a powerful lever for social transformation. A budget is the tool a government has to help it translate national resources into allocations which meet the needs and aspirations of its population, and set the country on a path to sustainable and equitable development. If a budget does not account for […]

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Case study

Mobilising Women Farmers to Secure Land Rights in Uttar Pradesh

12/03/2016

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality; in India it works in seven focus state. Oxfam India aims to improve poor people’s access, rights and entitlements over land and natural resources in order to support and augment their livelihoods. Through its programme on smallholder agriculture, Oxfam India focuses on socialising the identity of […]

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Discussion paper

Women’s Rights in the Cocoa Sector: Examples of emerging good practice

10/03/2016

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Women cocoa farmers are central to the sustainability of the cocoa supply chain and cocoa-growing communities. Too often unrecognized and undervalued, women’s labor makes significant contributions to the amount of cocoa produced, which is under increasing demand. Empowering women cocoa farmers not only has a positive impact on the lives of women, men and communities, […]

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Discussion paper

Market systems approaches to enabling women’s economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work

05/03/2016

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper develops the concept of unpaid care work within the framework of market systems. It shows that unpaid care is a substantial proportion of the work carried out by poor families, especially women, with many heavy, inefficient or unequally distributed tasks limiting productivity and mobility, among other factors, for market work. Thus unpaid care […]

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Journal article

Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality at last? An Oxfam perspective

04/03/2016

16 pages long

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Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals: gender equality at last? An Oxfam perspective

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The formulation of the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have involved greater consultation with civil society than their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals. This has been welcome to many development non-government organisations undertaking advocacy on women’s rights and gender equality, which have engaged with the SDG process in various ways. This article, […]

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Journal article

Gender, security, and governance: the case of Sustainable Development Goal 16

04/03/2016

11 pages long

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Gender, security, and governance: the case of Sustainable Development Goal 16

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes among its 17 key objectives the goal of creating peaceful societies based on inclusive and effective governance. However, none of the targets included under this ‘peace and governance’ goal (Goal 16) call for specific measures to ensure women’s equal participation in governance institutions and peace processes. This article […]

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