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Daw Ah Nu lives in a flood affected area of Myanmar and has been involved in range of Oxfam activities to build resilience. Credit: Dustin Barter/Oxfam 2016

Disaster insurance: propaganda or the future of aid?

Anna Warwick

July 24th, 2017 Climate Change, Disasters

Could disaster insurance be the future of aid? Anna Warwick summarises the debate on the role of insurance to build resilience in disaster prone areas. From one of the sessions …

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Water supply system in Armenia.

Decision-making for an uncertain future

Dr Lisa Horrocks

July 21st, 2017 Climate Change

Lisa Horrocks, Principal Climate Resilience Consultant at Mott MacDonald, comments on some initiatives tackling the issue around long term climate change solutions.  Wherever we are in the world, economic development requires …

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Water collection at a public tap in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015. Credit: Richard Friend

Does resilience thinking help or hinder urban development?

Richard Friend and Arabella Fraser

July 4th, 2017 General, New Urbanism

As climate and weather-related risks increase in urban areas, resilience discourses and ideas have gained traction in urban development policy. Arabella Fraser, Research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute and …

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Working with communities in Senegal to build resilience against climate change. Credit: Rosalind Cornforth

We need to flip science on its head

Rosalind Cornforth

July 4th, 2017 Climate Change

In her opening speech at the Resilient Solutions symposium Professor Rosalind Cornforth, Director of the Walker Institute, challenged the development community to make science fit for purpose by taking it …

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Damage cause by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Credit: Fran Afonso/Oxfam Intermón

Climate insurance: closing the protection or the resilience gap?

Swenja Surminski

July 4th, 2017 Climate Change

Does climate insurance work as a catalyst for climate risk management and sustainable development? Or is insurance deflecting attention from other disaster risk management solutions? Swenja Surminski, Senior Research Fellow …

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John Colvin speaks at #ResOxford. Credit: Oxfam

Storify of resilience symposium

Oxfam Policy & Practice

June 30th, 2017 General

[View the story “Resilient Solution Symposium ” on Storify]

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A women collects drinking water from a tubewell at Gabgachi Char in Gaibandha. Credit: Abir Abdullah/Oxfam

Under pressure: building resilience into water systems

Lousie Medland

June 30th, 2017 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

With global water resources increasingly stretched, how do we ensure that building resilience into water systems in not an afterthought? This is the question we put to the audience at …

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People around the world are faced with the challenge of adapting to changing climatic conditions, but what happens when small changes are not enough or are not even possible? Nick Brooks, Director of Garama 3C Ltd makes the case for transformational adaptation.

Transformational climate adaptation: beyond business-as-usual

Nick Brooks

June 28th, 2017 Climate Change

People around the world are faced with the challenge of adapting to changing climatic conditions, but what happens when small changes are not enough or are not even possible? Nick …

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Amina Hassen collecting water from a well dug by villagers in Harisso. They have been working for more than three hours to fill their leather bags (Kerid) with water. The holes are getting drier making it more difficult to get water from them. Often water collected this way is not suitable for drinking. Amina is seven months pregnant. Ethiopia. Credit: Abiy Getahun/Oxfam

Does knowledge matter in setting the development agenda?

Daniel Morchain

June 21st, 2017 Climate Change, Governance

Are marginalised people being overlooked in decision making processes around development and adaptation? Daniel Morchain reflects on the relationship between knowledge and power to influence outcomes. The more I think …

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What can resilience do for us?

Helen Jeans

June 13th, 2017 Climate Change, General

How can we use resilience to do development and humanitarian work differently and in ways that truly make societies work for and with people living in poverty? Helen Jeans, Oxfam’s …

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