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Evaluation report

Synthesis Report for Female Food Heroes (FFH) Engagement Strategy in Nigeria & Ethiopia

30/08/2025

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This synthesis report consolidates findings from two external evaluations of Oxfam’s Female Food Heroes (FFH) initiative in Nigeria and Ethiopia, conducted in 2024–2025. Since its launch in 2012, the program has celebrated and empowered women smallholder farmers, enhancing their leadership, visibility, and contributions to food security, gender justice, and rural livelihoods. The evaluations found that […]

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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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Research report

The Financing of Energy Transition in Senegal: Green promises, unequal gains?

18/08/2025

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Senegal's energy transition is at a critical juncture. While the country has made significant progress in terms of access to electricity and the integration of renewable energies, its energy financing model remains heavily dependent on foreign private investment and favors the latter. This implies debt-based financing and risk mitigation mechanisms that protect investors while risking […]

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Briefing note

Changing Face of Aid in Africa: Outlook, failures, and reform potential

08/08/2025

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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The year 2025 has been marked by deepening aid cuts by major donors. This briefing note examines the implications of these cuts on Africa’s development, highlighting long-standing failures in official development assistance (ODA) to reduce poverty, inequality, and climate vulnerability. It analyses ODA trends across sectors, gaps in support to Least Developed Countries and women’s […]

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Case study

Launching Group Cash Transfers in Nepal

30/07/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides cash in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups enabling them to design and implement projects that address the urgent needs and longer-term recovery of crisis-affected populations. In October 2023, Oxfam and NEEDS Nepal piloted four GCT initiatives in the southwestern […]

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Briefing paper

Emerging Good Practices on Embedding Human Rights into Seafood Procurement

30/07/2025

2 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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As seafood demand rises, it has been accompanied by a growing understanding of persistent human rights abuses. Recent reports have highlighted how poor procurement practices can contribute to abuses, while stronger practices can reduce them. This report reviews the current landscape and how buyers are enhancing their procurement practices to align with their human rights […]

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Briefing paper

Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat: Climate and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

17/07/2025

4 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The Middle East and North Africa is one of the regions that will be affected the most by climate change, extreme weather events, exacerbating the chronic water scarcity that it suffers from and current dependency on fossil fuels. Climate change impacts are already witnessed in many countries, especially those experiencing conflicts. At the same time […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Conflict Sensitivity Framework

17/07/2025

24 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Any intervention in a fragile or conflict affected context will inevitably have an impact on that context. These impacts may be intended or unintended, positive or negative, relatively minor or highly significant. Any organisation operating in such a context therefore has a responsibility to try to understand what those impacts may be, and to account […]

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Briefing paper

Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich

10/07/2025

4 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Africa is facing a double inequality crisis: extreme inequality alongside weak commitment among its governments to fight it. But there is hope. The African Union has urged member states to reduce inequality by 15% in the coming decade and has identified progressive taxation as a key tool to do so. The challenge, though, is the […]

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Discussion paper

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

03/07/2025

1 documents

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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