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Case study

Seizing an opportunity to support farmers: How Oxfam helped create Bolivia’s first national comprehensive agricultural insurance scheme

25/09/2013

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the story of how Oxfam in Bolivia took considerable risks to help a sympathetic government create a national agricultural insurance scheme. This involved weathering a political storm and carefully navigating the difficult space between the government and popular organizations. Oxfam’s work in Bolivia shows how important it is to seize opportunities, to change […]

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Case study

Taking the long view: Transforming the way community water management is viewed and conducted in northern Kenya

25/09/2013

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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For several years, Oxfam has been working with communities in Turkana and Wajir, Kenya, building the capacity of local water committees to better manage their water supplies and hold higher authorities to account. Instead of short incentive-based workshops with little follow-up, Oxfam has taken a longer-term approach by developing a toolkit to provide regular training […]

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Campaign report

Indians Demand Equality for Women

23/09/2013

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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CLOSETHEGAP is Oxfam India’s innovative new campaign for equality. It challenges manifestations of inequality in all areas, such as property rights, health, education, the right tofood and nutrition, and budgetary allocations for marginalised groups. The campaign began by focusing on gender inequality, asking the general public the ways in which they would close the gap between men […]

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Briefing paper

A Cautionary Tale: The true cost of austerity and inequality in Europe

12/09/2013

32 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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European austerity programmes have dismantled the mechanisms that reduce inequality and enable equitable growth. With inequality and poverty on the rise, Europe is facing a lost decade. An additional 15 to 25 million people across Europe could face the prospect of living in poverty by 2025 if austerity measures continue. Oxfam knows this because it […]

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Case study

HIV Prevention and Treatment for adolescents: A social study of Africaid Whizzkids United’s comprehensive model

10/09/2013

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This report describes the social aspects of the work of Africaid Whizzkids United (WKU), an NGO providing comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to adolescents in the township of Edendale in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The report’s emphasis on this group of Africaid’s clients was motivated by the relatively limited research available on this emerging population. […]

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Evaluation report

Report of a Baseline Survey of Women Domestic Workers in Mukuru Informal Settlement – Nairobi Kenya

01/08/2013

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Through this project, Oxfam gained insight into the lives of thousands of women in Mukuru informal settlements who work as casual domestic workers and that these women faced serious livelihood challenges which include low and delayed pay, poor working conditions and sexual exploitation as well as physical and psychological abuse. Despite these challenges, they continue […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: Toolkit for Wales

01/07/2013

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is a method of analysing and changing the lives of people experiencing poverty and disadvantage. It is a participatory approach based on the recognition that all people have abilities and assets that can be developed to help them improve their lives. Oxfam has already supported community development organisations to apply […]

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Briefing paper

Our Economy: Towards a new prosperity

20/06/2013

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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For too many Scots, the existing economic model is failing. Far from improving their lives, it traps them in a cycle of economic hardship. Yet it is possible to overcome poverty, both in Scotland and across the UK – many of the solutions already exist, hidden within the very communities hit hardest by an economic […]

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Research report

Oxfam Humankind Index: The new measure of Scotland’s Prosperity, second results

10/06/2013

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Last year, Oxfam Scotland came up with the Oxfam Humankind Index, a new way of measuring what makes a good life. The aim of the index is to assess Scotland’s prosperity through a holistic and more representative measure of progress, that goes beyond the dominant economic model, which relies on Gross Domestic Product as the […]

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Research report

Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain

30/05/2013

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, many people struggle to afford even the most essential of goods: food. In this briefing, Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam highlight the rise in food poverty in the UK, where over 500,000 are now thought to be reliant on food parcels. Figures from […]

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