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Research report

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

28/02/2023

4 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

26/05/2023

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […]

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Research report

Local Humanitarian Leadership: The View from Local Actors

26/05/2021

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The global call for localization and locally led emergency response acknowledges the reality that the humanitarian system is currently organized around international actors. More than the limited access to direct funding, the core issue is the power imbalance between local and international actors. In the Philippines, national and local networks of humanitarian, faith-based, developmental organizations […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

15/09/2020

3 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Oxfam’s Influencing for Impact Guide is designed for civil society organizations, Oxfam teams and partners, activists and campaigners. It aims to support them to develop and deliver effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis: strategies with impact to help shift unequal and unjust power relations, […]

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Research report

Decolonize! What does it mean?

15/12/2022

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures. These movements led by Indigenous Peoples, people of color, women, and queer people articulate and define the possibilities of decolonial […]

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About Policy & Practice

Example resources

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

Local Humanitarian Leadership: The View from Local Actors

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

Decolonize! What does it mean?