Oxfam's renewed interest in urban issues and a partnership with India's Centre for Social Markets), led Pushpanath Krishnamurthy to be involved in a new study on social innovation in India: Made in Bangalore. He talks more about the project here.
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Why is Oxfam launching an SME impact investment fund? Nicholas Colloff on a new project which aims to tackle poverty by addressing a lack of SME finance in the global South.
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Two decades after the phrase 'gender mainstreaming' was first coined at the 1995 Beijing UN World Conference on Women, the Gender & Development journal gathered leading feminists from across the world together at a conference in London to examine what has been achieved and what challenges remain.
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As delegates gather for the London Somali Conference, a new Oxfam briefing note calls for the country's humanitarian and developmental needs to be the top priority. Regional Campaigns and Policy Manager Ed Pomfret gives his view here.
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Promising, but needs to go further. Sarah Best gives Oxfam's verdict on the UN's High-Level Panel Report on Global Sustainability.
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Latin American environmentalist Eduardo Gudynas takes on the doughnut from a deeper green perspective for uncritically accepting western concepts of 'development'.
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Leading earth scientists, Mark Stafford Smith and Will Steffen respond to Kate Raworth's 'doughnut' concept. Will Steffen is a co-author of the original paper on nine planetary boundaries that inspired Kate's idea.
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Kate Raworth summarises Oxfam's new discussion paper, as she asks whether we can ensure both a sustainable planet and social equity. This builds on a concept she launched in October 2011.
When crossing unknown territory, a compass can be pretty handy. Achieving sustainable development for nine billion people has to be high on the list of humanity's great uncharted journeys. So here's an idea, in a new Oxfam...
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Ed Cairns, Oxfam's senior policy adviser on this kind of thing, introduces a big rethink of Oxfam's humanitarian work.
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Digital campaigning has been an undoubted success, but can it move beyond mere clicktivism?
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