Humanitarian Archives - Page 50 of 54 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Diversity in Oxfam GB: engaging the head and turning the heart

01/05/2004

12 pages long

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Diversity in Oxfam GB: engaging the head and turning the heart

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This article, by Oxfam GB’s diversity adviser, shares her experience of addressing diversity in an international development NGO that has British roots and history. In particular, the article focuses on race and sexuality. Oxfam recognises diversity as an inclusive concept – that is, it makes a commitment to value all individuals and their identity differences. […]

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Book

AIDS on the Agenda: Adapting development and humanitarian programmes to meet the challenge of HIV/AIDS

01/12/2003

1 documents

341 pages long

Languages: English

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AIDS on the Agenda is written for policy-makers, managers, and programme staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed forever by the pandemic of AIDS. The book considers three possible responses to the problem:Do nothing, Try to specialise in direct AIDS […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Coagulation and Disinfection Manual

15/09/2003

1 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The equipment is designed to be used with any or all of the following Oxfam water equipment: Water Pumping equipment, Water Storage equipment, […]

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Book

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections

01/06/2003

1 documents

302 pages long

Languages: English

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Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical Framework. It demonstrates […]

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Journal article

HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women’s movement

01/05/2003

5 pages long

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HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women’s movement

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The spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is closely connected to processes of globalisation in the South and, in particular, in Africa. It is clear that, for the most part, these processes are bad for poor people, women, and a range of marginalised groups, both within the global South and in some communities within the North. […]

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Book

Disability, Equality and Human Rights: A training manual for development and humanitarian organisations

01/04/2003

1 documents

400 pages long

Languages: English

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This book’s basic premise is that disabled people themselves know best what their needs are and that they should be involved in the planning and delivery of relief and development initiatives. The most effective support that agencies can offer is to empower them to claim their basic human rights and their civil and legal rights. […]

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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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Journal article

Human rights or wrongs? the struggle for a rights-based response to trafficking in human beings

01/03/2002

10 pages long

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Human rights or wrongs? the struggle for a rights-based response to trafficking in human beings

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A unique opportunity for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and advocates to contribute to the development of a human rights-based response to the trafficking of human beings now exists. Many governments have signed a new international treaty on trafficking and are in the process of adopting domestic anti-trafficking laws. However, as explained in this article, most government […]

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Journal article

Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

10 pages long

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

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In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

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Journal article

Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

01/12/2001

9 pages long

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Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

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Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government’s reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition […]

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