Bøger i Oxfam Skills and Practice serien

This book presents the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes, explaining how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency. The guidelines are primarily intended for NGO personnel: programme managers, food-security specialists, public-health engineers, finance staff and logisticians.

Using simple case-studies the author shows how to: construct a budget and cash-flow forecast record and control cash payments, draw up an analysed cash book and a receipts and payments account, operate a bank account, prepare a budget and actual statement.

*provides guidelines to reduce the risk and increase the benefits of consultancy work within the development and humanitarian sectors

This companion applies the Harvard framework, women's empowerment approach, gender analysis matrix and social relations approach to analysis of a variety of educational contexts, including national education policies and projects, schools, colleges, ministries, teaching and learning materials, and school and teacher training curricula.

The book provides step-by-step guidance for development practitioners, managers, and all those interested in how development organisations can help small-scale producers build effective collective businesses.

In this guide Oxfam staff present the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes. They explain how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency. These 16 A6 cards contain key elements from the book. Different types of cash intervention are compared - cash grants, vouchers, and cash-for-work - with checklists to explain how to implement each of them.

This book will be of interest to all campaigning individuals and organisations, not just those working on labour rights. The analysis includes learning points and examples of good practice. The authors describe and analyse what happened in five campaigns in Colombia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and the United States

This guide provides an overview of financial management and the practical tools that can help build the financial capacity of non-profit organisations and is intended for managers and trustees of non-profit organisations, providing tools and techniques for them to build financial systems and assess another organisation's financial capacity.

Intended for readers without any formal accountancy training, this book explains in clear and simple language how to document the financial transactions associated with credit and savings schemes. Efficient administration and accurate accounting records are vital for any scheme to be successful. Recording and sorting the data, and preparing financial summaries, such as receipts and payments reports and balance sheets, are descried in detail, with numerous illustrations and worked examples. The administration of loans and savings, and the recording of stock transfers are also fully covered. Basic Accounting for Credit and Savings Schemes will be of use to community development workers involved in or considering setting up such schemes.

This book focuses on the principles underlying evaluation, and deals with issues to be considered at the planning stage, the steps involved in carrying out evaluations and the importance of involving people in the evaluation process throughout.

The book lists information that must be gathered before deciding to implement a programme.Technical information on types of seeds and tools, purchase, transport and storage are given and the importance of involving the recipients, especially women at every stage, is stressed as is the need to take a long-term approach to these inventions.