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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Senior policy adviser Ed Cairns casts his eye over the latest resource for making sense of humanitarian funding.
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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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As an important reform in India's land acquisition laws makes its way to the Parliament, Oxfam India's Lucy Dubochet asks whether the proposed bill will help protect affected people.
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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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As Oxfam GB publishes its second batch of IATI-compliant data, Paul Clough explains our motivation for signing up to the transparency initiative.
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