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Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

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Journal article

Mentorship and inter-generational learning as catalysts for feminist leadership in Zambia

18/09/2025

18 pages long

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Mentorship and inter-generational learning as catalysts for feminist leadership in Zambia

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This article examines the vital role that women have played in Zambia’s politics and governance and how preserving these legacies through mentorship, inter-generational learning, and knowledge sharing can foster transformative feminist leadership in Zambia. Numerous women in politics and governance have played pivotal roles in advancing gender equality and influenced legal, social, and political reforms. […]

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Challenging the status quo: feminist leadership and political transformation in Brazil

18/09/2025

20 pages long

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Challenging the status quo: feminist leadership and political transformation in Brazil

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Since 2020, A Tenda das Candidatas has trained feminist leaders to take on positions of power and run for office in Brazilian politics. Over the past four years, the organisation has trained over 300 women, primarily Black women and LGBTQIA+, creating a national network of feminist women in politics, A Tenda Network. This article argues […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Zimbabwe Cyclone Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP) Chipinge 2024

17/10/2025

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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This evaluation assessed the impact of Oxfam’s response to the devastating impacts of Cyclone Idai on human lives after its destruction of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure in Zimbabwe’s Chipinge District (Manicaland Province). Oxfam’s response involved developing solar–powered piped water schemes; rehabilitating boreholes; protecting springs; constructing institutional and household latrines, and; promoting improved hygiene […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]

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The role of feminist transformative leadership for democratic improvement: learnings from Mexico’s political parity

18/09/2025

19 pages long

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The role of feminist transformative leadership for democratic improvement: learnings from Mexico’s political parity

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In 2019, Mexico achieved a significant political consensus: a constitutional reform established gender-political parity at the executive, legislative, and judicial powers at federal, state, and municipal levels. By October 2024, Mexico had its first woman president. In this context, we aim to examine whether, and in what ways, democracy is transformed when feminist women hold […]

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Research report

Beyond Rhetoric: Feminist leadership for a transformative Women, Peace and Security agenda at 25- Case studies from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and South Sudan

16/10/2025

1 documents

86 pages long

Languages: English

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Twenty-five years after the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is both a landmark in diplomacy and a study in unfulfilled promise. Its most profound achievement has been to force open a conversation about the gendered power structures that fuel conflict. But that opening is narrowing. Escalating wars, a […]

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Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

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Overview

Mentorship and inter-generational learning as catalysts for feminist leadership in Zambia

Keywords

Overview

Challenging the status quo: feminist leadership and political transformation in Brazil

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Overview

Impact Evaluation of Zimbabwe Cyclone Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP) Chipinge 2024

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Overview

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

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Overview

The role of feminist transformative leadership for democratic improvement: learnings from Mexico’s political parity

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Overview

Beyond Rhetoric: Feminist leadership for a transformative Women, Peace and Security agenda at 25- Case studies from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and South Sudan

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Overview

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