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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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Journal article

‘Just Like Being Back in Ethiopia’: Gender, ethnicity, and belonging in Footscray

19/09/2024

16 pages long

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‘Just Like Being Back in Ethiopia’: Gender, ethnicity, and belonging in Footscray

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In this article, we examine the experience of migrant Ethiopian women in Footscray. Drawing on interviews with 14 Ethiopian women who have significant connections with Footscray, an inner city, gentrifying suburb in Melbourne, Australia, we elucidate their lived experience of navigating Footscray’s complex and layered public spaces. On one hand, the women experience a profound […]

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Briefing paper

Asia’s Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building back fairer after COVID-19

26/09/2022

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality. This is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins. A few Asian governments have done a lot to fight inequality during […]

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Research report

Financing for Development in the Philippines

08/09/2021

1 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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As the Philippines approaches upper-middle-income status, it continues to face the challenge of fighting poverty and economic and gender inequalities, while also confronting COVID-19. Public debt is set to dramatically increase, and donors are likely to ramp up funding to help foster recovery from the pandemic. Transparency and accountability are essential to guarantee efficient and […]

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Discussion paper

Accountable Governance and Resilient Development: Thinking and acting for transformative change

01/02/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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This iterative learning inquiry was undertaken to help development actors better understand formal and informal accountable governance structures in resilient development including how resilient development programming contributes to transformative and systems-level change. Four emerging themes were identified as part of the research: accountable governance; systems; transformative change; and partnerships. Between them they paint a picture of […]

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Case study

Theory of Change Co-Created by Young People: Youth-led input to Oxfam’s Youth Participation and Leadership Meta Theory of Change

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Youth Participation and Leadership Meta Theory of Change bring together the views and expertise of youth activists from 16 countries, Oxfam programming, advocacy and campaigns staff, and theory of change experts. The design process was facilitated by Oxfam Australia through a series of co-creation workshops and consultations, and has been used as foundational reference […]

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Evaluation report

Using Community-Centred Approaches to Build Resilience at Scale

28/08/2018

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This Evidence Brief synthesises evidence of how Oxfam is working to support community-centred approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, delivering outcomes for people who are at risk from disasters and climate change. It highlights how such efforts have improved accountability between communities and governments to achieve impacts beyond the local level, influencing […]

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Research report

Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights: Oxfam’s global framework

01/01/2017

5 documents

39 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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The Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights working group of Oxfam International is proud to present a new Global Program Framework. The Framework was developed to help us deliver our strategic ambition on Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights (TLWR). This Framework has been developed both to support colleagues wanting to integrate TLWR principles and approaches into […]

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Briefing paper

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Safe havens needed for refugees from Syria

16/12/2016

5 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s research shows that less than three percent of the Syrian refugee population have actually arrived in rich countries through resettlement programmes. By analysing resettlement policies and practices in eight key countries, looking at capacity (i.e. investment in staff and facilities), security procedures, resettlement criteria and the general political climate towards refugees, this paper shows […]

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Briefing paper

Tax Battles: The dangerous global race to the bottom on corporate tax

12/12/2016

8 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Collecting tax is one of the key means by which governments are able to address poverty and inequality. But big business is dodging tax on an industrial scale, depriving governments across the globe of the money they need to address poverty and invest in healthcare, education and jobs. This report exposes the world’s worst corporate […]

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