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Research report

Gender-Transformative Resilience Programming: Experiences from Bangladesh and Myanmar

14/04/2021

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This study aims to build knowledge on how to contribute to gender transformation by achieving systemic changes and addressing the root causes of gender inequality in resilience and climate programming. This research took a feminist and participatory research approach, and the report outlines the outcomes of learning journeys carried out in in Bangladesh and Myanmar. […]

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Case study

The Impact of Village Savings and Loan Associations on the Lives of Rural Women: Pro Resilience Action (PROACT) project, Nigeria

12/02/2021

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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The PROACT project uses Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) to enable rural financial inclusion. The VSLA approach is targeted at combating increased poverty and improving the resilience of poor rural farming households in Kebbi and Adamawa States, Nigeria. The three case studies presented here reflect the new, transformative realities of increased income, access to […]

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Case study

Creatively Improving Agricultural Practices and Productivity: Pro Resilience Action (PROACT) project, Nigeria

12/02/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Since April 2016, The European Union and the Oxfam Pro-Resilience Action Project in Kebbi and Adamawa States, Nigeria, have supported poor smallholder rural farmers to improve their agricultural productivity. The project has a specific focus on increasing crop yields per hectare for better land usage, as well as ensuring farmers possess the skills they need […]

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Case study

Scaling sustainable agriculture: multiplying the Farmer-to-Farmer Agroecology movement in Cuba

15/01/2021

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the inspiring story of the Farmer-to-Farmer Agroecology Movement (MACAC) in Cuba. The movement has spread across Cuba and inspired over 200,000 farmers to take up agro-ecological farming practices. The story shows that it possible for a social movement to take sustainable agroecological farming systems to scale. Their experience counters the logic of conventional top-down approaches of agricultural extension and shows that locally specific solutions developed and disseminated by farmers themselves can provide […]

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Case study

Reducing Energy Poverty: The Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia

06/01/2021

1 documents

Languages: English

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Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia is notable for the scale and speed with which it has provided clean solarelectricity. In the space of 4 years the programme has provided 168,000 households, or 875,810 peoplewhomostly livein lowerincome rural or semi-rural areas of Zambia with clean electricity, one quarter of whom are female-headed households. As well […]

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Book

Missing in Action: Experiences of women with climate journalism

04/01/2021

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This booklet narrates the stories of five female journalists from Pakistan who are working on environment- and climate-change-related issues. Women are being disproportionately and adversely impacted by climate change and female journalists are uniquely placed to understand and share their stories. However, these journalists are ‘missing in action’ from the media in sharing their experiences […]

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Briefing paper

Shelter from the Storm: The global need for universal social protection in times of COVID-19

15/12/2020

7 documents

51 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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As 2020 draws to a close, the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating. Without urgent action, global poverty and inequality will deepen dramatically. Hundreds of millions of people have already lost their jobs, gone further into debt or skipped meals for months. Research by Oxfam and Development Pathways shows […]

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Research report

Inspiring Better Futures: Evidence and hope for radical and transformative impact at scale in a time of crisis

10/12/2020

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces converging crises of health, climate, gender and racial injustice and extreme economic inequality. The calls are mounting to ‘build back better’ to create more inclusive, caring and environmentally sustainable futures. But what evidence exists that this is possible? The Inspiring Better Futures case study series investigates whether radical change at scale is […]

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Case study

Climate Change Adaptation in East Africa: Mainstreaming gender-responsive and participatory approaches

04/12/2020

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study shows how convening influencing government practices and decision-making processes can have a transformative effect across government, bringing positive benefits to marginalized communities and millions of people. It also shows how NGOs can influence and support changes to government practices by playing a strategic convening role and becoming a systemic intermediary between different […]

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Case study

Protecting the People and the Forest: Bolsa Verde, Brazil

13/11/2020

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Bolsa Verde – or the Green Grant – is one of the few government social protection schemes that simultaneously improved the lives of many thousands of rural people living in poverty and reduced deforestation. The programme encouraged the preservation and sustainable use of forest resources by providing extremely low-income Brazilians living in the Amazon Forest […]

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