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The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in SADC: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

10/05/2022

8 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portugese, Swahili

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The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the extreme inequality in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and pushed millions into poverty. The economic crisis continues due to the obscene global vaccine inequality. As of end March 2022, a dismal 14% of SADC citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 65.5% in the United States […]

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Briefing paper

The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crises of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

25/11/2021

6 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a global pandemic existing in all social groups across the globe, yet it has largely been ignored in the COVID-19 response and recovery plans. It is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified GBV, including domestic violence and intimate partner violence amongst other forms of violations, but the investments in […]

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Evaluation report

Governance in Malawi: Impact Evaluation of the ‘Kutukula Umwini pa Chitukuko Cha m’maboma Ang’ono Project: Enhancing Communities’ Capacity in Tracking Development Resources at Local Council Level’

10/11/2021

1 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English

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The Kutukula Umwini pa Chitukuko Cha m’maboma Ang’ono project was carried out in the Phalombe, Dowa and Karonga districts in Malawi between April 2016 and June 2017 by Oxfam together with two local partner organizations, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Development Communications Trust (DCT). It aimed to enhance community capacity in […]

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Briefing paper

Shining a Spotlight: A critical assessment of food and beverage companies’ delivery of sustainability commitments

17/03/2021

9 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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From 2013 to 2016, Oxfam's Behind the Brands campaign called on the world’s 10 biggest food and beverage companies to adopt stronger social and environmental sourcing policies and spurred significant commitments on women’s empowerment, land rights and climate change. Now, as the coronavirus pandemic worsens inequality and food insecurity around the world, we assess whether […]

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Evaluation report

Good Governance in Malawi: Impact evaluation of the ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project

10/03/2021

2 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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The EU-funded ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project was implemented from 2015 to 2020 by a consortium made up of Oxfam in Malawi, LANDNET (until 2018) and CEPA, with technical support from DAI. The objective was to pilot, test and recommend for scale-up improved gender-sensitive land governance systems. This Effectiveness Review […]

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Briefing note

Will the Cure Bankrupt Us? Official Development Assistance and the COVID-19 Response in Southern African Countries

18/12/2020

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa in early November 2020 exceeded 1.8 million, with 45% occurring in Southern Africa (SAF). Most SAF countries lack the capacity to adequately protect lives and livelihoods. High indebtedness means underfunded essential services, and most countries had just emerged from a severe food crisis and the effects of Cyclone Idai. Donors […]

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Briefing paper

From Catastrophe to Catalyst: Can the World Bank make COVID-19 a turning point for building universal and fair public healthcare systems?

04/12/2020

2 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exposed the widespread failure to invest in strong and universal public health systems, putting millions of lives at risk and dramatically widening health inequalities. Oxfam analysed the World Bank’s emergency health funding to 71 countries in response to the pandemic. While its response has been rapid and significant, Oxfam finds that the World […]

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Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

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Journal article

Feminist activism 25 years after Beijing

24/06/2020

21 pages long

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Feminist activism 25 years after Beijing

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Young women have taken the lead in a new wave of feminist and democratic protests that have erupted across a wide range of countries, North and South. These movements raise a range of political and analytic questions: To what extent is it useful to identify the recent wave of activism in terms of a new […]

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Journal article

Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi

24/06/2020

11 pages long

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Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi

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This article, from the founder of Malawi’s Young Feminists Network, shares the writer’s experience of participating in the recent Young Women’s Regional Consultation, in Abidjan. The aim of the consultation was to enable dialogue between today’s young people and those who were young at the time of the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, to […]

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