Resilience Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Better Safe Than Sorry: Four fundamentals for scaling up anticipatory action.

07/11/2024

1 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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In the context of ever-increasing humanitarian needs worldwide, anticipatory action is being recognised as one of main the ways in which predictable shocks can be prevented from turning into crises, reducing both the impacts and the costs. Anticipatory action is a critical approach, bridging the work of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response, and showing […]

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Briefing paper

Communities In Charge: Lessons for the Global Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage from a locally-led project in Kenya

06/11/2024

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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People in northern Kenya have suffered numerous severe economic and non-economic losses and damages due to repeated climate-related droughts and flooding. This briefing note provides an overview and lessons learned from a locally-led project funded by the Scottish government and recently implemented by Oxfam, Strategies for Northern Development and Merti Integrated Development Programme in northern […]

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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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Case study

Water Supply Systems in Nepal: How to build better, more sustainable services: Part two

18/07/2024

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study is the first update on Oxfam’s work on the sustainability of rural water supply systems in Nepal. Readers are advised to read the first paper on the topic from 2019: Water Supply Systems in Nepal. In this previous case study, Oxfam identified five key ‘levers’ that could potentially transform water supply schemes […]

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Briefing paper

Unaccountable Adaptation: The Asian Development Bank’s overstated claims on climate adaptation finance

02/05/2024

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite positioning itself as the ‘climate bank of Asia and the Pacific’, it is difficult to ascertain the Asian Development Bank’s claims of climate adaptation finance. Oxfam analysed the bank’s 2019–2023 climate finance portfolio and conducted a detailed assessment of 15 climate adaptation projects, comprising 43% of reported adaptation finance for FY 2021 and 2022. […]

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Case study

Locally Led Emergency Response Fund (LL-ERF) Project: Experiences from Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, and Uganda

18/01/2024

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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This report contains learning from a pilot implementation of the Locally Led Emergency Response Fund (LL-ERF) Project in three countries. The LL-ERF is a funding innovation that provides flexible, quick humanitarian funding to local actors in order to save lives during emergencies, advocate for the rights of people affected, and advance the shifting of power […]

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Briefing paper

Fixing Our Food: Debunking 10 myths about the global food system and what drives hunger

08/09/2022

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Our unequal global food system is unsustainable for people and planet. We urgently need to rethink how the world feeds its people. The food crisis we are facing is not new. Extreme inequality and poverty, rights abuses, conflict, climate change and inflation – exacerbated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine – mean that […]

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Case study

Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance with Social Protection: A case study in Gaza

22/08/2022

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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In the Gaza Strip, 80% of the population receives humanitarian assistance. The level of need is overwhelming, and the political and socio-economic context has crippled the traditional social protection system. Efforts to build a stronger social protection system are under way, and cash interventions are on the rise. This report explores the humanitarian cash assistance […]

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Research report

Gender and Protection Analysis: Juba, Rumbek and Pibor, South Sudan

13/05/2022

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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This research was conducted to analyse the distinct gender needs and protection concerns of women, girls, men and boys in order to inform the implementation by Oxfam and its partners of the Sida-funded project, ‘Building resilience through gender- and conflict-sensitive approaches to education, skills development, and sustainable livelihoods in South Sudan’. It explores the gendered […]

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Evaluation report

Resilience in Iraq: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project

06/04/2022

3 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Between May 2016 and March 2018, Oxfam in Iraq, together with the Iraqi Al Amal Association (IAA), collaborated on the ‘Safe access to resilient livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable conflict-affected women in Kirkuk’ project. Funded by UN Women, the project marked the first collaboration between Oxfam and IAA (a women’s rights organization working in Kirkuk). The […]

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