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- "It's time we learned this lesson"
- One year after the worst flooding in its history, Pakistan is still not prepared for this year’s monsoon floods and other natural disasters.
- Viv Tankou Moun
- Viv Tankou Moun (a Kreyol phrase meaning "to live like a human being") is a survey of 16 camps of Haitian people displaced by the 2010 earthquake. This is an ...
- Salt in the Wound
- The urgent need to prevent forced evictions from camps in Haiti
- Hurricane Sandy lashes Haiti; Oxfam aims to prevent cholera outbreaks
- Authorities issued a state of alert across all 10 departments of the country.
- In the wake of Sandy, Oxfam distributes cholera kits and steps up prevention
- The potential for cholera outbreaks is just one of the concerns Haitians have following the heavy rains.
- Haiti dodges eye of storm, but camp dwellers still at risk from flooding and cholera
- Widespread suffering from hurricane Isaac, Oxfam plans cholera prevention work
- Haiti land rights, land tenure, and urban recovery
- More than two years after the earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain in tents and informal settlements in the ...
- 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
- In need of a better WASH: Water, sanitation, and hygiene policy issues in post-earthquake Haiti
- This research initiative examined Haiti’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector before and following the January 12, 2010 earthquake, and the work of ...
- Haiti podcast: January 16, 2010
- Audio from Louis Belanger, the Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam, who is assessing the situation in Haiti.
- Haiti podcast: January 17, 2010
- Audio from Louis Belanger, the Humanitarian Media Officer for Oxfam, who is in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
- Avoiding a food crisis in rural Haiti
- Oxfam’s Yves Gattereau talks about how the January 2010 earthquake poses a threat to the country’s already shaky food supply.
- Haiti podcast: January 26, 2010
- Mark Fried, Oxfam spokesman in Haiti, reporting from a hospital in Port-au-Prince.
- Haiti Podcast: January 29, 2010
- Mark Fried, Oxfam spokesman in Haiti, reports on the conditions in a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince.
- Hygiene promotion: determining what works
- In the aftermath of disasters, Oxfam undertakes a host of hygiene-promotion activities in order to prevent the outbreak and spread of disease. But which are ...
- Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
- The growing number of vulnerable people, the rise in disasters, and the failure to put most fragile states on the path to development, will significantly ...
- Ti koze sou kolera: In rural Haiti, Oxfam takes to the airwaves
- Oxfam reaches out to remote communities about cholera, strengthening preparedness and easing fears.
- Haiti: Reducing the risk of flooding in Artibonite
- A local mayor enlists support from Oxfam to address major flooding in his community in rural Haiti.
- Haiti: a grain milling operation offers an economic lifeline for women
- To help tackle unemployment and ensure families have access to food, Oxfam is working with a women's group to modernize and expand a service center.
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- Haiti Progress Report 2011
- Two years after the most powerful earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, Oxfam remains committed to rebuilding with the people of Haiti.
- In Japan, Oxfam partners support vulnerable groups
- Oxfam working to complement government's efforts
- Solidarity and support in Japan: An interview with Oxfam's Michael Delaney
- Oxfam is working to complement the massive aid effort that the Japanese government has undertaken.
- Disaster unfolds in Japan
- Japan faces multiple emergencies
- Oxfam is not mounting a major humanitarian response to the disasters in Japan, but we are seeking ways to support vulnerable groups through local ...
- Landslide compounds Mexico's flood disaster
- Pakistan floods progress report
- A report on Oxfam's response to the floods in Pakistan between July 2010 and July 2011.
- In a city of water
- Heavy rains in Senegal have turned the low-lying city of Pikine into a lake. Oxfam and a local partner are working to improve the conditions of life for those ...
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