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The latest news, stories, reports, opinion and analysis from Oxfam Policy & Practice staff around the world.

Subject: development methods

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Dairy herd in Aknaghbyur. Credit: Daniel Morchain/Oxfam

Assessing vulnerability to prioritise interventions – lessons from a South Caucasus village

We live in an uncertain world; here Daniel Morchain describes an approach to vulnerability and impact assessment he recently used in Armenia in order to reduce uncertainty and make our interventions as effective as possible. ...

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Shea nuts, women's collective action in Mali

Transformational change for women and their communities in Mali

We recently launched the findings from our three-year research project into Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets in sub-Saharan Africa. Following blogs on reaching marginalised women in Ethiopia and making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania, Learning and Communications Co-ordinator Imogen Davies explains how collective action has improved gender relations for women in Mali, our final focus country. ...

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Making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania

As we launch the findings of our research on Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets, Global Research Adviser Martin Walsh, who helped to develop the methodology for the case studies, summarises the results and recommendations of the Tanzania study. ...

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Coatline in the Outer Hebrides. Credit: Daniel Morchain/Oxfam

Home truths: climate change lessons from Britain’s shores

Sea level rise and  more frequent and intense storms have made the Outer Hebrides increasingly vulnerable to coastal flooding. Daniel Morchain recently travelled to the area to see how techniques, ancient and new, play a role in combating soil and dune erosion.  ...

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Richard Nguna Kagaba, Jean Ngabu Safari, and Malosi Lotsove from the Kotoni village in Ituri, DRC. Liz Lucas/Oxfam America

Men at work for gender equality

Gender & Development editor Caroline Sweetman introduces the latest issue of the journal with a call to challenge damaging gender stereotypes of all kinds. ...

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Lessons learned from a year of advocacy impact evaluation

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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With CSO partner in Rumbeck, South Sudan

Finding CSO partners when civil society has been weakened by war

After a difficult start, Oxfam's fragile states project Within and Without the State has been making significant and exciting progress in South Sudan over the last few months. The team are now at the stage of selecting civil society organisation (CSO) partners. Rama Anthony explains more. ...

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Voluntary members of the Oxfam water and sanitation committee in Jamam refugee camp, South Sudan. Credit: John Ferguson/Oxfam

Tackling poor governance — where to begin?

People's ability to claim their rights is hampered by poorly governed or weak institutions. On the UN's Human Rights Day, we're launching a new tool to help practitioners to plan programmes that put governance considerations at their core. Jo Rowlands, Oxfam's Senior Global Programme Adviser on Governance and Institutional Accountability explains more. ...

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Research guidelines

Oxfam launches our new, improved research guidelines

As we launch our new series of research guidelines, Martin Walsh, Global Research Adviser, explains how they came about and how we hope they'll be used. ...

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Gender & Development in words

To ensure women’s rights move forward, we need to repoliticise - outcomes from the Beyond Gender Mainstreaming Learning Project

Last year, Gender & Development set out to discover where Gender Mainstreaming is 15 years on from when the approach was first agreed. The Learning Project brought together activists and development professionals in online debates, face-to-face encounters and a special issue of the journal which is out today. Journal editor Caroline Sweetman explains more. ...

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