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- Don't cut aid. It's working.
- Cutting aid won't solve our budget problems--but it will close the door on a safer world and a better future.
- Saving Lives 24/7
- Oxfam is helping people survive catastrophes like hurricanes and earthquakes, and the dangerous upheavals of war. Learn about Saving Lives 24/7.
- Sahel food crisis
- Poor and erratic rains, failed harvests, and soaring food prices set the stage for a severe food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012, placing ...
- By leveraging a tiny U.S. investment, people like Emiliana Aligaesha, Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Manuel Dominguez, and Martha Kwataine are creating a sound future ...
- Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
- Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
- Busan in a nutshell
- What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ...
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
- Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
- USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
- Where does foreign aid stand?
- Press Briefing on Status of Foreign Aid Funding in Budget Debate, September 21, 2011.
- Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
- Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our ...
- New report shows 17 million lives at stake in farm bill negotiations
- At the heart of the El Salvador flood response: partnership
- When a major storm strikes El Salvador, preparedness and local partnerships make all the difference.
- With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
- Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
- Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
- For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
- Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
- "Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
- The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
- This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor ...
- Oxfam: US Government needs to be bolder in efforts to fight poverty
- Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Calling the shots under country ownership
- How should US foreign aid decisions be made to ensure that poor countries are in the lead?
- Ready or Not
- Pakistan's resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
- A tiny seed and a big idea
- Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
- Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
- For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families.
- Hardest hit: Ethiopia
- A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
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