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Working Papers

Title: The UK Doughnut: A framework for environmental sustainability and social justice
Authors: Malcolm Sayers, Katherine Trebeck
Date: March 2015

Title: Wealth: Having it all and wanting more
Authors: Deborah Hardoon
Date: January 2015

Title: The Indian Ocean Tsunami, 10 Years On: Lessons from the response and ongoing humanitarian funding challenges
Authors: Sophia Ayele
Date: December 2014

Title: Resettlement of Refugees from Syria: Increased commitments needed from international community in Geneva
Date: December 2014

Title: Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the typhoon Haiyan response
Authors: Andy Featherstone, Carino Antequisa
Date: December 2014

Title: How Effective are Benefits Sanctions? An investigation into the effectiveness of the post-2012 sanctions regime for Jobseeker's Allowance claimants
Authors: Howard Reed
Date: December 2014

Title: From Words to Facts: Acting on climate change in Central America
Authors: Rosalba Landa, Beatriz Olivera
Date: December 2014

Title: Ebola and the Private Sector: Bolstering the response and West African economies
Authors: Debbie Hillier, Ruth Mhlanga
Date: December 2014

Title: Emergency Use Only: Understanding and reducing the use of food banks in the UK
Authors: Jane Perry, Martin Williams, Tom Sefton, Moussa Haddad
Date: November 2014

Title: Women and Inclusive Peace Building in Afghanistan
Authors: Babrak Osman
Date: October 2014

Title: Meaningful Action: Effective approaches to women's economic empowerment in agriculture
Authors: Thalia Kidder, David Bright, Caroline Green
Date: October 2014

Title: Making the Impossible Possible: An overview of governance programming in fragile contexts
Authors: Jo Rowlands
Date: October 2014

Title: Hidden Hunger in South Africa: The faces of hunger and malnutrition in a food-secure nation
Authors: Yared Teka Tsegay, Masiiwa Rusare, Rashmi Mistry
Date: October 2014

Title: Hidden Hunger in South Africa: The faces of hunger and malnutrition in a food-secure nation
Authors: Yared Teka Tsegay, Masiiwa Rusare, Rashmi Mistry
Date: October 2014

Title: Fostering Community Change in the West Bank
Authors: Louie Fooks
Date: October 2014

Title: Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality
Authors: Emma Seery, Ana Arendar
Date: October 2014

Title: Building a Social Contract in South Sudan
Authors: Rama Anthony
Date: October 2014

Title: Action Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
Authors: Kate Bowen
Date: October 2014

Title: Women's Economic Leadership in Asia: A review of WEL programming
Authors: Bowman Kimberly
Date: September 2014

Title: Wages and Labor Market Slack: Making the Dual Mandate Operational
Authors: David G. Blanchflower, Adam S. Posen
Date: September 2014

Title: The UN Climate Summit's Public–Private Action Announcements: Sorting the promising from the greenwash
Authors: Hanks Kiri
Date: September 2014

Title: The UN Climate Summit's Public–Private Action Announcements: Sorting the promising from the greenwash
Authors: Kiri Hanks
Date: September 2014

Title: Climate Shocks, Food and Nutrition Security: Evidence from the Young Lives cohort study
Authors: Dornan Paul, Ogando Portela, Maria Jose, Pells Kirrily
Date: September 2014

Title: A Sign of Things to Come? Examining four major climate-related disasters, 2010-2013, and their impacts on food security
Authors: Coghlan Christopher, Muzammil Maliha, Ingram John, Vervoort Joost, Otto Friederike, James Rachel
Date: September 2014

Title: A Sign of Things to Come? Examining four major climate-related disasters, 2010-2013, and their impacts on food security
Authors: Christopher Coghlan, Maliha Muzammil, John Ingram, Joost Vervoort, Friederike Otto, Rachel James
Date: September 2014

Title: Food prices and how people are eating: Views from 'Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility'
Authors: Kelbert Alexandra Wanjiku, Chisholm Nick
Date: August 2014

Title: The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland
Authors: Malcolm Sayers, Katherine Trebeck
Date: July 2014

Title: The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland
Authors: Sayers Malcolm, Trebeck Katherine
Date: July 2014

Title: Is There a Role for Mobiles to Support Sustainable Agriculture in Africa?
Authors: Batchelor Simon, Scott Nigel, Valverde Alvaro, Manfre Cristina, Edwards David
Date: July 2014

Title: Inequality in South Africa: A two part document on the current understanding and dimensions of inequality in health, gender and livelihoods
Authors: Nicola Deghaye, Tamlyn McKenzie, Petronella Chirawu
Date: July 2014

Title: Climate and Environmental Change: Views from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
Authors: Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert
Date: July 2014

Title: Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices
Authors: Jennifer Leavy, Naomi Hossain
Date: March 2014

Title: Climate Change Resilience: The case of Haiti
Authors: Bhawan Singh, Marc J. Cohen
Date: March 2014

Title: Review of Myanmar's Disaster Management Law from the Angle of Inclusivity
Authors: Adele Peers
Date: February 2014

Title: Effective Public Policies and Active Citizenship: Brazil's experience of building a food and nutrition security system
Authors: Marília Mendonça Leão, Renato S. Maluf
Date: February 2014

Title: Effectiveness Review: Drought Management Initiative: Livestock Component, Kenya
Authors: Robert Fuller
Date: December 2013

Title: Civil Society Engagement with Political Parties During Elections: Lessons from Ghana and Sierra Leone
Authors: Francis Kwakye Oppong, Franklin Oduro, Mohammed Awal, Emmanuel Debrah
Date: December 2013

Title: Survey on the livelihoods of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Date: November 2013

Title: Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Prospects for improved social relations after the armed conflict in northern Mali
Authors: Ilaria Allegrozzi, Elise Ford
Date: October 2013

Title: Divide and Purchase: How land ownership is being concentrated in Colombia
Date: September 2013

Title: Bringing clarity to troubled waters: How Oxfam is facilitating change in water and sanitation management in Tajikistan
Authors: Ghazi Al Kilani, Caroline Berger
Date: September 2013

Title: After the Drought: The 2012 drought, Russian farmers, and the challenges of adapting to extreme weather events
Authors: Daria Ukhova
Date: September 2013

Title: A Mushrooming business: How Oxfam is facilitating development of the horticulture sector while improving the status of women in Rwanda
Authors: Sharad Eldon Mahajan, Laura Kigali
Date: September 2013

Title: Russia as a Humanitarian Aid Donor
Authors: Anna Brezhneva, Daria Ukhova
Date: July 2013

Title: Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves: Analysing the prospects for a stabilisation fund in Mali and Niger
Authors: Martin Alba, Teresa Serra, José María Gil
Date: July 2013

Title: Gender and Vulnerability to Cholera in Sierra Leone: Gender analysis of the 2012 cholera outbreak and an assessment of Oxfam's response
Authors: Noelle Rancourt
Date: June 2013

Title: Upper Nile Refugee Crisis: Avoiding past mistakes in the coming year
Authors: Sultana Begum
Date: April 2013

Title: The Impact of Climate Change on Coffee in Uganda: Lessons from a case study in the Rwenzori Mountains
Authors: Laurence Jassogne, Peter Läderach, Piet van Asten
Date: April 2013

Title: South Sudan Emergency Response in Maban County, Upper Nile State: Mid-Term Review Summary, January–August 2012
Date: April 2013

Title: Development after 2015: Ten Goals to Make a Difference for Those Left Behind in India
Authors: Lucy Dubochet
Date: April 2013

Title: Labour Rights in Unilever's Supply Chain: From compliance to good practice. An Oxfam study of labour issues in Unilever's Viet Nam operations and supply chain
Authors: Rachel Wilshaw, Liesbeth Unger, Chi Do Quynh, Thuy Pham Thu
Date: February 2013

Title: Tipping the Balance: Policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers
Authors: BillVorley, Lorenzo Cotula, Man-Kwun Chan
Date: December 2012

Title: Effective Ways of Linking Relief and Rural Development: Oxfam's experience of implementing programmes using EU Food Facility funds
Authors: John Magrath
Date: December 2012

Title: The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production and agricultural livelihoods under climate change in the Russian Federation
Authors: Sergey Bobylev, Sergey Kiselev, Roman Romashkin, Sofia Solovieva, Daria Ukhova, Yulia Yevtushok
Date: November 2012

Title: First Line of Defence: Assessing the potential of local food reserves in the Sahel
Authors: Gabriel Pons Cortès, Itziar Gómez Carrasco
Date: October 2012

Title: Challenges Facing Farmers: A report into upland farming and farming families in Teesdale
Date: October 2012

Title: Private Investment in Agriculture: Why it's essential, and what's needed
Authors: Erinch Sahan, Monique Mikhail
Date: September 2012

Title: Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices: The costs of feeding a warming world
Date: September 2012

Title: Extreme Weather Events and Crop Price Spikes in a Changing Climate: Illustrative global simulation scenarios
Authors: Dirk Willenbockel
Date: September 2012

Title: Cereal Secrets: The world's largest grain traders and global agriculture
Authors: Sophia Murphy, David Burch, Jennifer Clapp
Date: August 2012

Title: Putting Women's Rights into the Arms Trade Treaty
Authors: Chitra Nagarajan, Caroline Green
Date: July 2012

Title: Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
Authors: Sophie Mack Smith
Date: July 2012

Title: The Perfect Storm: Economic stagnation, the rising cost of living, public spending cuts, and the impact on UK poverty
Authors: Moussa Haddad
Date: June 2012

Title: Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?
Authors: Jodie Thorpe, Shelly Fennell
Date: June 2012

Title: Taxation in Paraguay: Marginalization of small-scale farming
Authors: Déborah Itriago
Date: May 2012

Title: Global Urban Market-Based Livelihoods in Oxfam GB: Lessons and experiences from Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Russia
Authors: Sheilah Meikle, Tim Chambers, Alex Frediani, Tom Goodfellow
Date: April 2012

Title: What Works for Women: Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security
Date: March 2012

Title: Within and Without the State: Strengthening civil society in conflict-affected and fragile settings
Authors: Liz Hughes
Date: February 2012

Title: Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
Authors: Edmund Cairns
Date: February 2012

Title: Haiti Progress Report: January – December 2011
Authors: Lucy Davies
Date: January 2012

Title: Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
Authors: Simon Levine, Eva Ludi, Lindsey Jones
Date: December 2011

Title: Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia
Authors: Charlotte Sterrett
Date: November 2011

Title: Investir dans l'agriculture au Burundi: Indispensable pour combattre l'insécurité alimentaire et améliorer les conditions de vie des femmes paysannes
Authors: Paula San Pedro
Date: November 2011

Title: Weathering the Crises, Feeding the Future: Philippine food justice report
Authors: Jeanne Frances Illo, Dante Dalabajan
Date: October 2011

Title: Preparing for the Future? Understanding the influence of development interventions on adaptive capacity at the local level in Uganda
Authors: Lindsey Jones, Frederik Ayorekire, Margaret Barihaihi, Anthony Kagoro, Doreen Ruta
Date: October 2011

Title: Preparing for the Future? Understanding the influence of development interventions on adaptive capacity at local level in Ethiopia
Authors: Eva Ludi, Kindie Tesfaye, Simon Levine
Date: October 2011

Title: Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda
Authors: Niall Cooper, Lucy Brill, Moussa Haddad, Rachel Newton, Jenni Viitanen
Date: October 2011

Title: The 'Right' Results: Making sure the results agenda remains committed to poverty reduction
Authors: Tariq Ahmad
Date: September 2011

Title: Progressive Taxation: Towards fair tax policies
Authors: Deborah Itriago
Date: September 2011

Title: Governing Climate Funds: What will work for women?
Authors: Elizabeth Arend, Sonia Lowman
Date: September 2011

Title: Connected Agriculture: The role of mobile in driving efficiency and sustainability in the food and agriculture value chain
Authors: Matthew Kirk, Julie Steele, Christele Delbe, Laura Crow, Justin Keeble, Caroline Fricke, Richard Myerscough, Gib Bulloch
Date: September 2011

Title: Aid Coordination and Alignment: Myth or reality? The case of the ECOWAS regional agriculture policy
Authors: Jean-Denis Crola, Saya Saulière
Date: September 2011

Title: Pakistan Floods Progress Report July 2010 / July 2011
Date: July 2011

Title: Ethiopia's Sesame Sector: The contribution of different farming models to poverty alleviation, climate resilience and women's empowerment
Authors: Genia Kostka, Jenny Scharrer
Date: July 2011

Title: Climate Change and Women Farmers in Burkina Faso: Impact and adaptation policies and practices
Authors: Ana Mª Romero González, Adama Belemvire, Saya Saulière
Date: July 2011

Title: The Impact of Russia's 2010 Grain Export Ban
Authors: George Welton
Date: June 2011

Title: Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council's response
Authors: Nicolas Vercken, Hannah Cooper
Date: June 2011

Title: Land Rights and the Indus Flood, 2010–2011: Rapid assessment and policy review
Authors: Azmat Budhani, Haris Gazdar
Date: June 2011

Title: Growing a Better Future: Food justice in a resource-constrained world
Authors: Robert Bailey
Date: June 2011

Title: Climate change: Beyond coping. Women smallholder farmers in Tajikistan
Date: June 2011

Title: Walking the Talk: Cash transfers and gender dynamics
Authors: Carol Brady
Date: May 2011

Title: Time's Bitter Flood: Trends in the number of reported natural disasters
Authors: Steve Jennings
Date: May 2011

Title: The Struggle for a Pro-Poor Food Policy in Guatemala
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011

Title: Sleeping Lions: International investment treaties, state-investor disputes and access to food, land and water
Authors: Javier Perez, Myriam Gistelinck, Dima Karbala
Date: May 2011

Title: Minding the Money: Governance of climate change adaptation finance in Nepal
Authors: Katie Wiseman, Raju Pandit Chhetri
Date: May 2011

Title: Improving Food Security for Vulnerable Communities in Nepal
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011

Title: Governance for a Resilient Food System
Authors: Alex Evans
Date: May 2011

Title: Exploring Food Price Scenarios Towards 2030 With a Global Multi-Region Model
Authors: Dirk Willenbockel
Date: May 2011

Title: Combating Rural Poverty and Hunger Through Agroforestry in Bolivia
Authors: Kate Kilpatrick
Date: May 2011

Title: Who will feed the World? The production challenge
Authors: Lucia Wegner, Gine Zwart
Date: April 2011

Title: Making Growth Inclusive - Some lessons from countries and the literature
Authors: Elizabeth Stuart
Date: April 2011

Title: The Effects of Socialization on Gender Discrimination and Violence: A Case Study from Lebanon
Authors: Christine Sylva Hamieh, Jinan Usta
Date: March 2011

Title: Achieving a Shared Goal: Free universal health care in Ghana
Date: March 2011

Title: Whose Aid Is It Anyway? Politicizing aid in conflicts and crises
Date: February 2011

Title: What does civil society at country level expect from the new UN women's agency?
Date: February 2011

Title: Coping with Destitution: Survival and livelihood strategies of refused asylum seekers living in the UK
Authors: Heaven Crawley, Joanne Hemmings, Neil Price
Date: February 2011

Title: Whose Economy? Winners and losers in the new Scottish economy
Authors: Katherine Trebeck
Date: January 2011

Title: Haiti Progress Report 2010
Date: January 2011

Title: Exploring BME Maternal Poverty: The financial lives of ethnic minority mothers in Tyne and Wear
Authors: Chris Warburton Brown
Date: January 2011

Title: Climate Change Investment through the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience in Tajikistan
Date: January 2011

Title: Vulnerable Communities and Community Ownership in Scotland: A review of literature, policy and practice
Authors: Malcolm Sayers, Eddie Follan
Date: December 2010

Title: Women and Men: Hand in Hand Against Violence Strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women
Authors: Ola Ataya
Date: November 2010

Title: Nowhere to Turn: The failure to protect civilians in Afghanistan
Authors: Ashley Jackson
Date: November 2010

Title: Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza blockade
Date: November 2010

Title: Better Returns in a Better World: Responsible investment: overcoming the barriers and seeing the returns
Authors: Helena Viñes Fiestas, Rory Sullivan, Rachel Crossley
Date: November 2010

Title: The Road to Olive Farming: Challenges to developing the economy of olive oil in the West Bank
Authors: Lara El-Jazairi
Date: October 2010

Title: A Gender Perspective on 21st Century Welfare Reform
Authors: Janet Veitch
Date: October 2010

Title: Common Cause: The case for working with our cultural values
Authors: Tom , Crompton
Date: September 2010

Title: Women and Men in Yemen: Statistical Portrait 2007
Authors: Abd Al-Karim Ismael Al-Arhabi
Date: August 2010

Title: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Budgets of Low-Income Countries
Authors: Katerina Kyrili, Matthew Martin
Date: July 2010

Title: A Crisis Multiplied: How the global economic crisis, coming on top of other shocks, is worsening poverty in Burkina Faso
Authors: Elizabeth Stuart
Date: July 2010

Title: Life and Dignity at Risk: The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector in Liberia
Date: June 2010

Title: The rain doesn't come on time anymore: Poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia
Authors: Senait Regassa, Christina Givey, Gina E. Castillo
Date: April 2010

Title: Giving developing countries the best shot: An overview of vaccine access and R&D
Authors: Paul Wilson
Date: April 2010

Title: Climate change adaptation: Enabling people living in poverty to adapt
Authors: Catherine Pettengell
Date: April 2010

Title: Women's Poverty and Social Exclusion in the European Union at a Time of Recession: An Invisible Crisis?
Date: March 2010

Title: The Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on Migration Patterns in Viet Nam
Date: March 2010

Title: Strengthening Popular Participation in the African Union
Date: March 2010

Title: The WASH Factor: Oxfam's experiences with humanitarian coordination for water, sanitation, and health
Authors: Aimee Ansari, Bethan Montague-Brown
Date: February 2010

Title: The impact of the global financial crisis on women in Southeast Asia
Authors: Yada Praparpun
Date: February 2010

Title: The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Pacific Region
Authors: Simon Feeny
Date: February 2010

Title: Reaching Tipping Point? Climate change and poverty in Tajikistan
Date: February 2010

Title: Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis
Authors: Richard King, Caroline Sweetman
Date: February 2010

Title: Delivering Money: Cash Transfer Mechanisms in Emergencies
Authors: Paul Harvey, Jenny Hoffmann, Brenda Murphy, Katherine Haver
Date: January 2010

Title: The Missing Middle in Agricultural Finance: Relieving the capital constraint on smallholder groups and other agricultural SMEs
Authors: Alan Doran, Ntongi McFadyen, Robert C Vogel
Date: December 2009

Title: Responding to climate change in Viet Nam: Opportunities for improving gender equality
Date: December 2009

Title: Failing Gaza: No rebuilding, no recovery, no more excuses
Date: December 2009

Title: A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on Zambia
Authors: Duncan Green
Date: December 2009

Title: A call for action: Young people's views on climate change - Vietnam
Date: December 2009

Title: Aid for Agriculture: Promises and the Reality on the Ground
Authors: Jean-Denis Crola
Date: November 2009

Title: The Right to Survive: the humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Date: April 2009

Title: The Right to Survive in a Changing Climate
Authors: Robert Bailey
Date: April 2009

Title: Applying Sustainable Development to Arms Transfer Decisions: Practical Guide
Date: April 2009

Title: Women Workers Pay the Price for the Global Economic Crisis
Date: March 2009

Title: Latin America and the Global Economic Crisis
Date: March 2009

Title: In her own words: Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges
Date: March 2009

Title: A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on Zambia
Date: March 2009

Title: Climate Change, Development and Energy Problems in South Africa: Another World is Possible
Date: February 2009

Title: Kosovo’s Fragile Transition - Europe Report N°196
Date: September 2008