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Oxfam America & the private sector
Brochure
| Jun 14, 2012
Oxfam America works with a wide range of organizations to develop innovative solutions to poverty and social injustice.
Physical risks from climate change
Research Report
| May 31, 2012
A guide for companies and investors on disclosure and management of climate impacts
Systems, power, and agency in market-based approaches to poverty
Research Report
| May 24, 2012
A review of some shortcomings of Market-based approaches (MBAs) and the search for more holistic, systemic approaches.
Building a better life, one plant at a time
Oxfam Impact
| May 21, 2012
Farmers using the System of Rice Intensification in Cambodia grow bigger, stronger plants that can better withstand flooding.
Sowing seeds
Briefing Paper
| May 16, 2012
Opportunities and challenges facing US assistance for
food security in Guatemala
Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
Research Report
| May 07, 2012
USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
R4 Rural Resilience Initiative
Research Report
| May 04, 2012
Quarterly report | January – March 2012
Hygiene promotion: determining what works
Research Report
| Apr 17, 2012
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 the most effective?
Sahel food crisis
Briefing Paper
| Apr 10, 2012
Actions the US can take to break the cycle of hunger
Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
Oxfam Impact
| Mar 31, 2012
Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical
depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our approach was put to the test.
Saving Money and Lives: The Human Side of U.S. Food Aid Reform
Briefing Paper
| Mar 29, 2012
A joint report from Oxfam America and American Jewish World Service shows that more than 17 million people could receive life-saving food aid at no additional cost to US taxpayers if Congress cuts red-tape in the US Farm Bill.
Oxfam’s work with water
Brochure
| Mar 22, 2012
At a UN General Assembly in July 2010, 122 nations declared access to clean water and sanitation a human right.
Local capacity in humanitarian response: Vision or mirage?
Research Report
| Mar 14, 2012
The absence of empowered local participation in emergency response has been recognized by most actors in the humanitarian sector. It has been documented in the evaluations of major responses from the African Great Lakes wars in the ‘90s to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 – and it will undoubtedly be a key finding when the humanitarian sector reviews its earthquake response in Haiti.
Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: October 2011–December 2011
Research Report
| Feb 28, 2012
Rural resilience series
A Shift in Focus: Putting the interests of Somali people first
Briefing Paper
| Feb 21, 2012
More than six months after the UN declared a famine, Somalia is still in the throes of its worst humanitarian crisis in decades, with 31 per cent of the population estimated to be in crisis.
Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
Oxfam Impact
| Feb 07, 2012
In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
Oxfam Exchange
| Feb 07, 2012
What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
Research Report
| Feb 07, 2012
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 increase needs.
R4 Rural Resilience Initiative: Partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate
Research Report
| Jan 24, 2012
Oxfam America and the World Food Programme launch a partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate.
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