Oxfam is always looking at new ways to improve sanitation in its programmes and the Tiger Worm Toilet is just one novel method that is currently being trialled. With an estimated 2.6 billion people...
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Where do new ideas come from? How do you produce an actionable, new idea? Nicholas Colloff outlines the 'explore, extract, enact' approach to innovation.
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Oxfam is working with US engineers to develop a pioneering desalination solution in order to prive safe drinking water in rural Kenya. Brian McSorley reports on the pilot, in the last of his blog...
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Brian McSorley on an Oxfam solar water pumping programme in arid northern Kenya that is testing - and sometimes overturning - assumptions about solar power, and finding that for many communities,...
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In the run up to World Water Day, Brian McSorley reports on an innovative approach to sanitation in informal urban environments.
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Broken handpumps are a regular sighting in rural Africa. However, as Brian McSorley reports, a new type of pump being piloted in Turkana is hoping to change this.
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In the run up to International Women's Day, Chaliya Sophasawatsakul explains the origins of a project to use mobile phones to support women's empowerment in Cambodia.
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Oxfam's renewed interest in urban issues and a partnership with India's Centre for Social Markets), led Pushpanath Krishnamurthy to be involved in a new study on social innovation in India:...
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Why is Oxfam launching an SME impact investment fund? Nicholas Colloff on a new project which aims to tackle poverty by addressing a lack of SME finance in the global South.
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Digital campaigning has been an undoubted success, but can it move beyond mere clicktivism?
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