Government Spending Watch, a site that collates MDG spending, launches today. Guppi Bola and Rachel Bladon explain how this powerful tool will be critical in holding governments to account....
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The human cost of Syria's conflict has risen beyond all expectations. There are already more than 1.3 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries. Inside Syria itself, 6.8 million people struggle in urgent need of assistance. As we publish a new briefing note on the crisis, Ed Cairns describes how, as the numbers grow, the money to help some of those refugees and displaced people is running out.
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For its size, the humanitarian response to the Upper Nile State refugee crisis was one of the most expensive in the world, but what did it look like on the ground? Away from the chaos of flooding and mismanagement that plagued the humanitarian agencies working there, what has it been like for the refugees themselves? From her point of view as Oxfam's Humanitarian Policy Adviser in
Maban County, Sultana Begum gives...
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Oxfam's Deputy International Director Sue Turrell reflects on the Secretary of State for Development's Speech on women and girls.
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Evaluation gurus Kimberly Bowman and Claire Hutchings reflect on what Oxfam has learnt in our efforts to monitor the effectiveness of our advocacy campaigns.
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Ben Phillips gives a personal reflection on the struggle for aid justice and why the time is right to give aid the credit it deserves.
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Caroline Baudot, humanitarian policy advisor, describes her experiences working with Oxfam in camps in Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Niger, hosting refugees fleeing Mali's conflict.
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Senior policy adviser Ed Cairns casts his eye over the latest resource for making sense of humanitarian funding.
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As Oxfam celebrates its 70th anniversary, head of advocacy Max Lawson discovers its radical roots, and urges it not to lose its edge.
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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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