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'Advocacy Strategies and Approaches: A Training of Trainers Manual on Advocacy Strategies for Community-based Organisations in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas', and its companion 'Resource Manual', were developed for potential trainers of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the HKH region. The manuals are intended to provide useful guides for conducting regional and local-level training on...
The three publications and DVD Film on Women, Energy and Water in the Himalayas "Policy Guidelines, Project Learning, and Training of Trainers Manual" encapsulate the experiences and lessons from a recent project on 'Incorporating the Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia'. The UNEP and ICIMOD project was supported by...
The world's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, largely as a consequence of human activity. This paper summarises the predicted impacts of these changes that are of greatest relevance to Oxfam. It focuses on the medium to long-term (25-50 years) dynamics in five key areas: water, food security, health, extreme events and political stability. It explains how the geopolitics of...
Trade can be an engine for growth that lifts millions of people out of poverty, but many developing countries face constraints that prevent them from participating in the global trading system. Even if trade rules are radically reformed and a pro-development round is achieved at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong in December 2005, current 'behind the borders' problems mean that poor...
The new DFID White Paper puts the state at the heart of development, recognising the need for capable, responsive and accountable governments in order for development to be successful. Oxfam warmly supports this position, along with DFID’s commitment to increase the amount of UK aid spent on supporting developing country governments to provide basic social services for their citizens....
Los tratados de libre comercio de Estados Unidos con Perú y Colombia, así como el proyectado con Ecuador se han negociado bajo las promesas de oportunidades en el mercado más rico del mundo, pero tendrán graves impactos en los medios de vida de las y los pequeños agricultores, en la salud pública y en la regulación de las inversiones que protege...
Malgré les nombreuses promesses de réforme, la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) continuent à utiliser leur aide pour obliger les pays en développement à appliquer des politiques économiques inappropriées, avec l’accord tacite des gouvernements des pays riches. Ces conditions de politique économique...
Pese a los múltiples compromisos de reforma, el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) siguen utilizando la ayuda para obligar a los países en desarrollo a adoptar políticas económicas inadecuadas, con el acuerdo tácito de los países ricos. Estas condiciones de política económica menoscaban el proceso nacional de elaboraci...
Malgré les nombreuses promesses de réforme, la Banque mondiale et le Fonds monétaire international (FMI) continuent à utiliser leur aide pour contraindre les pays en développement à appliquer des politiques économiques inappropriées, avec l’accord tacite des gouvernements des pays riches. Ces conditions de politique é...
Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are still using their aid to make developing countries implement inappropriate economic policies, with the tacit approval of rich-country governments. These economic policy conditions undermine national policymaking, delay aid flows, and often fail to deliver for poor people. If the world is...
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