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Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise

03/07/2025

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […]

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Climate Financing, Institutional Structure, and Budget Tracing in Ethiopia

01/07/2025

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76 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper identifies the current situation and future trends of climate financing, institutional capacity, and budget tracing in Ethiopia. It seeks to inform Oxfam, partners, and all other stakeholders in the discussion for evidence-based decisions and actions to ensure meaningful and informed participation of citizens in social and financial accountability of climate financing at both […]

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Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Supply Chain in Ecuador

23/06/2025

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114 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents the first of three Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) conducted by Oxfam on behalf of Bolton Food, focusing on its tuna supply chain in Ecuador between 2021 and 2022. The assessment evaluates both actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain. It seeks to identify the […]

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Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Operations in Morocco

22/06/2025

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114 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on the second human rights impact assessment (HRIA) carried out by Oxfam at Nouvelle Cosarno, Bolton Food’s tuna cannery in the coastal city of Agadir, Morocco. The factory employs more than 400 workers, 90% of whom are performing manual tasks (blue-collar workers). Women make up the majority of the manual workers (71%). […]

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From Pledges to Progress: Tracking climate finance flows and accountability in Nigeria and Uganda

10/06/2025

2 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Climate Finance Shadow reports have shown that high-income countries have failed to deliver on their commitment to mobilize climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. In 2024, two country reports, on Uganda and Nigeria, were published that analyzed how the insufficient international climate finance that is reaching their governments is being spent at national […]

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The Roadmap Towards Gender Transformation in the Kampala Declaration and the CAADP Ten-Year Implementation Plan and Strategy (2026-2035): Defining Africa’s response metrics in the third iteration of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme

14/04/2025

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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The newly launched 10-year Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) represents a crucial initiative for enhancing productivity and fostering cohesive agricultural development throughout the continent. The forthcoming results framework for this strategy will lay out the objectives to be pursued in the transformation of the agriculture sector and will serve […]

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Raising the Bar: Supermarkets must urgently address structural exploitation of cocoa farmers

10/04/2025

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36 pages long

Languages: English

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Most cocoa farmers in main cocoa producing countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are poor, even though they are at the heart of the supply chain for a luxury good: chocolate. For decades they have been receiving low farm gate prices, which don’t allow them to earn a living income for their families. At the same […]

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Discussion paper

A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

31/03/2025

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33 pages long

Languages: English

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Historically there has been very little discussion of feminism within the international humanitarian system. In recent years, some donor governments – including Canada, Mexico, and Germany – have adopted overtly feminist foreign policies and applied these to their strategies and guidance for humanitarian assistance. At the same time, aid actors have started to reconfigure their […]

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Briefing paper

Innovative Pathways: When and how to use alternative approaches to Human Rights Impact Assessments

21/02/2025

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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Human rights violations are widespread across global supply chains, with companies increasingly exposed to risks like forced labor and environmental degradation. While audits and certifications have proven insufficient in preventing such abuses, a more robust approach is necessary. A Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) is an essential tool that helps businesses identify and assess human […]

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Discussion paper

Defining and Assessing Transformational Climate Change Adaptation: A framework for application to agri-food projects

11/12/2024

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62 pages long

Languages: English

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This discussion paper proposes a framework of four indicators of transformational adaptation – the breadth and depth of change, the intention to achieve transformation, scale and sustainability – and provides a framework to apply these indicators to four types of interventions in agri-food systems. The paper was co-commissioned with Catholic Relief Services.

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