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Gender in Emergencies: Practical tools for transformative action

07/10/2025

1 documents

159 pages long

Languages: English

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Building on the progress made, the Oxfam Action Guide is designed to help COs turn Oxfam’s Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy and Standards into practical, context specific actions that make a real impact in crisis affected communities. Clear, concise, and easy to translate, the guide provides step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and key resources to support […]

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Towards Gender-Transformative Action on Super Pollutants

25/09/2025

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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The guidance document, Towards Gender-Transformative Action on Super Pollutants, produced in partnership with Oxfam America, identifies gender-differentiated impacts of super pollutants by sector – from gender-related exposure, vulnerability, resources, and decision-making capacity. It shows how women and marginalized groups are disproportionately affected by these pollutants, facing greater health risks, care burdens, and exclusion from decision-making, […]

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Discussion paper

Systems Change: Insights and reflections for development practitioners

29/09/2025

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores systems thinking and systems change from the perspective of people actively working on addressing root-causes of problems in their specific fields. Following a brief overview of the basic tenets of the systems approach, the paper outlines the distilled insights drawn from interviews with 18 systems thinkers from diverse fields and countries. Their […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement

06/10/2025

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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The Climate Finance Shadow Report presents analysis of North-South climate finance flows and assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment to inform climate finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and 2023. This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and […]

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Briefing paper

Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism

24/09/2025

6 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extractivism and exploitation, with the most marginalized paying the highest price while elites profit. From transition mineral mining to debt burdens and unequal energy access, the […]

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Briefing paper

A Vision for a Just Scotland: How the Scottish Parliament can fight injustice and inequality while protecting people and planet

17/09/2025

1 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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This report outlines Oxfam Scotland's priorities for the Scottish Parliament in the run-up to and following the Scottish election in May 2026. It sets out 40 ambitious but achievable policy goals, using devolved powers, across four pillars of justice: Economic, Social, Climate and Global. Each pillar is vital to building a fairer Scotland in a fairer […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Ethical Content Guidelines: Upholding the rights of the people in the pictures in content gathering, management and use

27/08/2025

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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These guidelines cover the gathering of content, the management of content, and the use of content by Oxfam for its public engagement work. The main purpose of these guidelines is to ensure that content is gathered, managed and used ethically, in ways that uphold contributors’ rights to participate and be heard, to experience respect and […]

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Gender in Emergencies: Practical tools for transformative action

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Overview

Towards Gender-Transformative Action on Super Pollutants

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Overview

Systems Change: Insights and reflections for development practitioners

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Overview

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement

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Overview

Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism

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Overview

A Vision for a Just Scotland: How the Scottish Parliament can fight injustice and inequality while protecting people and planet

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Overview

Ethical Content Guidelines: Upholding the rights of the people in the pictures in content gathering, management and use

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