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Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

23/03/2012

15 pages long

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Beyond participation: making enterprise development really work for women

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Oxfam has been involved in sustainable livelihoods and enterprise development since the 1960s, gaining practical experience in setting up businesses that deliver social as well as economic development. Since we believe that gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to poverty eradication worldwide, over the last three years we have been piloting an innovative […]

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Workers’ rights and corporate accountability – the move towards practical, worker-driven change for sportswear workers in Indonesia

23/03/2012

16 pages long

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Workers’ rights and corporate accountability – the move towards practical, worker-driven change for sportswear workers in Indonesia

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Women workers across Asia and throughout the world continue to face long hours, low wages and discrimination when they try to organise into unions within garment and footwear factories. Millions of young women are making products for companies Nike and Adidas. Over the past decade, under considerable public pressure, these companies have developed standards on […]

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Journal article

Fair Trade and organic certification in value chains: lessons from a gender analysis from coffee exporting in Uganda

23/03/2012

16 pages long

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Fair Trade and organic certification in value chains: lessons from a gender analysis from coffee exporting in Uganda

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Fair Trade and organic certification production of coffee and other commodities is popularly seen as beneficial to producers in many ways. However, gender analysis of Fair Trade is important for assessing the gains and losses for women and men specifically, which result from compliance with globally set codes of conduct. This article presents a case […]

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Journal article

Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

23/03/2012

12 pages long

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Expanding women’s role in Africa’s modern off-grid lighting market: enhancing profitability and improving lives

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Women in Africa are both important beneficiaries and key facilitators of the modern off-grid lighting revolution. Affordable products using technologies like micro-solar power and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can replace fuel-based lighting – enabling women and men to save money, reduce indoor pollution, and operate their small enterprises with reliable, clean lighting. This article discusses new […]

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Policy position

The Private Sector and Humanitarian Relief

08/03/2012

2 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam supports informed private sector involvement in humanitarian assistance where it contributes positively to the efforts of the humanitarian community, i.e. where it provides aid that helps to save lives, alleviate suffering, and promote human dignity, as well as the engagement of new actors in post-emergency recovery and reconstruction activities. The private sector can add […]

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Issue briefing

Gender equality: it’s your business

06/03/2012

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those retailing and producing food and fast-moving consumer goods, and which source goods or labour in developing countries. Although many companies already do much to protect human rights in their operations and value chains, there is more that they can […]

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Briefing paper

A review of free, prior and informed consent in Australia

19/12/2011

2 documents

Languages: English, Spanish

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This paper on free, prior and informed consent in Australia describes legislation that applies in the Northern Territory of Australia, in particular the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Commonwealth) (ALRA), which provides for special rights related to indigenous land ownership and mining. The legislative provisions and related practice are considered in terms of […]

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Research report

Made in Bangalore: How social enterprise is transforming business-as-usual

01/11/2011

1 documents

96 pages long

Languages: English

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Social enterprise has emerged as an innovative and creative alternative model for providing solutions to the continuing problems of poverty, along with inadequate social services, such as health and education. This study seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in contributing to development, so that it can be leveraged to maximum effect. This research […]

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Journal article

Corporate social responsibility performance in the Niger Delta: beyond two constitutive orthodoxies

01/08/2011

10 pages long

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Against the background of attempts to explain the poor Corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of transnational oil corporations in the Niger Delta in the context of flawed approaches, processes and inadequate CSR packages, this paper contests not only the explanations for the failure of CSR, but the core idea that CSR is capable of engendering […]

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Case study

Engaging Smallholders in Value Chains: Creating new opportunities for beekeepers in Ethiopia

09/06/2011

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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An initiative in the Amhara region of Ethiopia has capitalized on the potential of local honey production to build a promising alliance between smallholder farmers and a private-sector export company. A coalition of facilitating partners has developed the value chain for honey and other bee-derived products by providing producers with technology inputs, training, and extension […]

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