Oxfam
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Societies in Transition
The Focus on Gender series makes available in book form the contents of the Oxfam journal Gender and Development. Highlighting practice as well as theory, the thematic series makes the resource available to students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in particular topics. Chang...
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Social Survey Methods
Written for planners and managers in development and relief agencies, Oxfam Development Guidelines draw on Oxfams experience to review current thinking on theory and practice in a range of development and relief fields. Social Survey Methods is a readable guide to selecting and implementing an appro...
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Social Investment and Economic Growth
This book argues with global examples that absolute poverty is not an inevitable consequence of economic growth, and that equitable economic growth is necessary to secure the eradication of poverty. The author contends that the benefits of economic growth need to be invested in developing social and...
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Shattered Lives
Arms are out of control. Arms kill more than half a million men, women, and children on average every year. Many thousands more are maimed, or tortured, or forced to flee their homes. The uncontrolled proliferation of arms fuels human rights violations, escalates conflicts, and intensifies poverty....
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Senegal
This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on thei...
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Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities
This working paper maps the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed and relates these to the complex social, economic, political and cultural factors that make some social sectors more critically vulnerable than others in emergencies. It als...
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Rights Now!
One thousand million people in the world live in poverty. They are denied basic rights such as access to clean water, a home or enough to eat. This work explains why so many people are poor and powerless. It shows what some of them are doing about it, how ordinary people in Britain can support them...
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Rights-Based Approaches
Case studies that provide compelling conclusions about the differences between rights-based and more traditional projects, and their relative impacts. The failure to respect, protect, or fulfil human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justice. Practically...
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Rights-Based Approaches- Arabic
Case studies that provide compelling conclusions about the differences between rights-based and more ‘traditional’ projects, and their relative impacts. The failure to respect, protect, or fulfil human rights is a fundamental and leading obstacle to economic development and social justic...
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The Guide to the HAP Standard
What is HAP? The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) is a multi-agency initiative to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian action. What is the HAP Standard? The HAP Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management Standard (2007) provides an industry standard for humanit...