Oxfam
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Nepal
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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No Time to Waste
It is increasingly clear that environmental problems cannot be solved without full consideration of the process of economic development, the results of which are so often destructive rather than sustainable. No Time to Waste examines these issues from a Southern viewpoint, and gives examples from Ox...
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North-South Co-operation
This book looks at co-operation for development: between North, South, and East; women's organizations and funding agencies; development practitioners, academics, and civil society; politicians and economists; and men and women. Currently the world is in a state of economic and political crisis, of...
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The Oxfam Education Report
This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at the underlying causes of the problem and sets out a clear agenda for reform. It dem...
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The Oxfam Gender Training Manual
This comprehensive approach to gender training in development encompasses work on gender awareness-raising and gender analysis at the individual, community and global level. An important reference source for development agency trainers and academics. This is a large, comprehensive manual that acknow...
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The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief
This handbook is the product of the experience of Oxfam UK and Ireland in its work in over 70 countries around the world. It offers an expression of Oxfam's fundamental principles: that all the people have the right to an equitable share in the world's resources, and the right to make decisions abou...
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The Oxfam Poverty Report
The UN Charter of 1945 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out a moral framework for a system of rights and obligations upon which the new world order was to be built. Yet, over 50 years on, the basic rights enshrined in the Charter are being violated all over the world. Only the privi...
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Pakistan
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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Partnerships for Girls' Education
The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly current in debates about development. They are widely seen as the most effective way to achieve sustainable e...
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Pastoral Development Planning
Written for planners and managers in development and relief agencies, Oxfam Development Guidelines draw on Oxfam's experience to review current thinking on theory and practice in a range of development and relief fields. Despite all the efforts of development agencies, pastoral communities in Africa...