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- Disaster Management Policy and Practice
- A tsunami research journal article
- Haiti at risk
- A country already struggling to overcome poverty reels.
- Cuba: Weathering the Storm
- Lessons in risk reduction
- Lessons in disaster management
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of the Sri Lankan government's disaster management policies, which contributed to planning and reform.
- Deepening community engagement
- Tsunami research brief: A study of disaster preparedness programs in Sri Lanka that points to the importance of listening carefully to communities.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- One researcher's method: ask the people who know best
- In Sri Lanka, Chamindra Weerackody carried out research on community mental health and well-being that has implications for aid providers in future emergencies.
- Such important work
- The Advanced Center for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACEDRR) explores new ways of helping impoverished communities improve their resilience to future ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- Disaster resilience is useful now
- Because disasters and development are intricately linked, disaster risk reduction projects can improve people's day to day lives.
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- Oxfam America launches new initiative on reducing disaster risks
- Developing strong programs in disaster risk reduction is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of Oxfam America's work on emergencies.
- Early rains reveal vulnerability of many communities in El Salvador
- The rainy season has only just begun and El Salvador is already mourning its first landslide victims.
- Number of people affected by climate disaster up 54 percent by 2015
- In Jiabi, Chinese government and local people build dike together
- Oxfam partner invites villagers and county officials to share ideas about development and the environment.
- With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
- Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
- The semblance of disaster
- Carrying out realistic disaster simulations is one way Oxfam ensures that its staff members are prepared to respond quickly and effectively.
- Affordable housing needs to be part of disaster planning, says Oxfam America
- As new hurricane season arrives, urgent needs remain unaddressed
- Oxfam: Peru Quake Reconstruction Effort Must Focus on Reducing Devastating Impact of Future Natural Disasters
- As Government develops its rebuilding plan, Oxfam sees potential for decreasing vulnerability to death and destruction when disaster strikes
- Oxfam America Launches $50 Million Fundraising Campaign
- Aid teams ready to respond as Cyclone Favio threatens more flooding in Mozambique
- International agency Oxfam has aid teams in flood-affected Mozambique on high alert as very intense category 4 Cyclone Favio approaches over the Indian Ocean, ...
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