Ines Smyth reports back on the event held to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2012.
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Good investment in community healthcare is needed to fight malaria, argues Ian Sullivan, rather than putting people's health in the hands of untrained shopkeepers.
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Change and accountability is possible in Afghanistan, says Oxfam's Babrak Osman, but it won't happen if left to politicians and insurgents, it needs to be led by civil society.
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The new edition of From Poverty to Power, Oxfam's flagship publication on global development publishes today, we ask the author Duncan Green to reflect on what's changed since the book what first published in 2008.
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Until recently Mali was best known internationally for its music and fabled city of Timbuktu, but now it's making news because of conflict and political turmoil. Added to that, it is still recovering from a severe food crisis that has affected the entire Sahel region, leaving local people struggling to cope. Maya Mailer, Oxfam's Humanitarian and Conflict Policy Adviser reflects on her recent trip to the country.
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As organisations around the globe celebrate World Food Day, Richard King, our Policy Researcher on all things 'food security' reflects on the latest estimates of global hunger in the new FAO State of Food Insecurity report.
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On the eve of The International Day for Disaster Reduction, Oxfam's Global Humanitarian Gender Adviser Tess Dico Young reports on a project that enabled women from marginalised Dalit communities to lead sanitation and disaster risk reduction activities in Darchula Distruct, Western Region, Nepal.
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Ed Cairns Oxfam's Senior Policy Adviser on humanitarian advocacy research responds to The Human Security Report 2012 from Canada's Simon Fraser University.
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As Oxfam publishes its first batch of Project Effectiveness Reviews, Jennie Richmond, Head of our Programme Performance and Accountability team discusses the evaluation challenge facing NGOs.
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Focusing investment on small-scale farmers, particularly women, can greatly reduce poverty, Monique Mikhail, Oxfam's Sustainable Agriculture Policy Adviser explains how.
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