Bøger i Oxfam Development Casebooks serien

This book relates how structures were established to ensure the representation of all groups, particularly the most vulnerable in refugee settlements. It considers the problems of donor fatigue and the internal stresses created when a disaster-relief operation evolves into a community-development programme in a still-turbulent context.

This casebook shows how video can be used by poor and powerless people to represent themselves and communicate directly with the powers that control the world beyond their village.

This book looks at the themes of development in conflict, disability in conflict and the social model of disability in a post-communist society in detail.

As a guide for NGO interventions this book outlines a framework in work with children, youth, women and local leadership; the principles of intervention, and the fundamental elements that have contributed to success. The framework is relevant to a broad range of societies which have been damaged by civil conflict.

An objective account of a major Oxfam initiative: the Wajir pastoral development project in northeast Kenya, with its distinctive emphasis on community participation. It explains how marginalized groups are developing their own pastoral associations to represent their interests, and Oxfam's role in facilitating that process. It describes an integrated approach to pastoral development: supporting the livelihoods of livestock keepers and those who have lost their animals; devising strategies to address drought and conflict as part of a longer-term agenda for sustainable development; and working to influence key decisions made by high-level policy-makers.

This book analyses the achievements of the movement - 'Friends of Trees and Living Beings' - and considers its significance within the context of a national legal and policy frameworks; drawing on candid interviews with villagers, activists, NGO staff and forestry officials.