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Research report

Promoting and Defending Civic Space: Strategic learnings from the FAIR for ALL programme

03/11/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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This research report on civic space had been developed as part of the FAIR for ALL programme (2021-2025) implemented to strengthen global civil society in their work for more inclusive, just and sustainable trade and value chains. The program has been funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is led by a consortium […]

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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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Journal article

Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

08/05/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis

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This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.

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Briefing paper

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

10/04/2025

1 documents

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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Evaluation report

Together Against Poverty Phase II Project Learning Review – Advocacy in Action: Stories of Change and Learnings for the Future

10/03/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam, through the four-year, multi-country program Together Against Poverty Project -Phase II (TAP2), has implemented impactful interventions contributing to strategic policy and practice outcomes in agriculture, aid effectiveness, and gender equality. Throughout the project, Oxfam has undertaken continuous learning and adaptation to ensure that our different advocacy and program tactics and strategies, which include research, […]

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Journal article

The Community Resilience Fund: a transformative tool for grassroots women-led community resilience

12/02/2025

10 pages long

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The Community Resilience Fund: a transformative tool for grassroots women-led community resilience

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This article discusses a field-tested financial mechanism developed by the Huairou Commission, the CRF resources grassroots women’s organisations across the Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions to build their collective leadership, analyse climate and disaster risks, prioritise actions, publicly demonstrate resilience practices, and collaborate with the government to institutionalise or scale up […]

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Discussion paper

Understanding electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of civil society in improving performance, governance, and accountability

19/08/2024

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a primer on the performance of electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting on the current landscape of power sector and utility challenges, the reforms undertaken to address performance failures, opportunities for a “utility of the future” amid the global energy transition, governance frameworks available to assess performance (like the infrastructure regulatory system […]

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Discussion paper

From Generation to Distribution: Investigating Ghana’s power sector’s value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable, and clean energy supply

23/07/2024

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report, published by Oxfam partner, the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) examines the Ghana's power sector value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable and clean energy supply. The work outlines the role of the Ghanian government in the electricity sector, and outlines three salient challenges facing the energy sector: 1) The role […]

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Case study

Barriers to Reporting Misconduct: Understanding power, intersectionality and context

18/08/2023

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This report concludes Oxfam’s research project on Factors Influencing Misconduct Reporting, which began in 2019–20 by identifying specific barriers in Myanmar, Iraq and Ghana. To test the integration of recommendations from this research, Oxfam then conducted two pilot projects in Iraq and Ghana from May 2021 to September 2022. Oxfam in Iraq focused on survivors’ […]

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Research report

Towards a Living Income for Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: Assessing companies’ efforts to date

14/02/2023

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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This report analyzes existing strategies and interventions implemented by cocoa and chocolate companies operating in Ghana to raise the income of cocoa farmers in their supply chains. It has two main aims: first, to complement companies’ learning efforts by pulling together and distilling lessons and insights from across the sector; and second, to strengthen transparency […]

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