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

10 May 2022

8 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French

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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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Case study

Strengthening Urban Resilience: Five emerging lessons

29 Nov 2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Strengthening urban resilience is key to achieving Oxfam’s vision of a world without poverty. Urbanization has become a major challenge for almost all countries around the globe. Cities and city inhabitants are facing additional and amplified challenges as a result of rapid urbanization, a changing climate and rising inequality in urban areas. The COVID-19 crisis […]

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Briefing paper

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

25 Nov 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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Briefing paper

Not in This Together: How supermarkets became pandemic winners while women workers are losing out

22 Jun 2021

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Inequality is worsening and exploitation of women is endemic across the global economy. While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit, as they are often […]

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Briefing paper

An African Response to COVID-19: From principled first response to just recovery

28 Apr 2021

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2020 Oxfam and SOAS facilitated an online high-level event to bring together African and international policy and public-health professionals to discuss their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and offer insights into strategies and policies they have enacted in their respective contexts. Speakers tackled a wide range of issues, including government strategies and policies […]

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Case study

Avoiding Day Zero: How Cape Town cut its water usage by 50% in three years

07 Jan 2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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The city of Cape Town in South Africa successfully reduced its water use by more than half in three years. The case demonstrates that resource consumption can be reduced substantially and maintained at lower levels over a long period of time, at least in the face of an imminent threat of shortages.Cape Town’sexperience is directly […]

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Briefing note

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

18 Dec 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

Shelter from the Storm: The global need for universal social protection in times of COVID-19

15 Dec 2020

7 documents

51 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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As 2020 draws to a close, the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of abating. Without urgent action, global poverty and inequality will deepen dramatically. Hundreds of millions of people have already lost their jobs, gone further into debt or skipped meals for months. Research by Oxfam and Development Pathways shows […]

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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 Nov 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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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 1

08 Jul 2020

3 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Narratives are a form of power that can mobilize and connect, as well as divide and isolate. Social, public or dominant narratives help to legitimize existing power relationships, prop them up or make them seem natural. As an anthology of perspectives this knowledge offering is one way to amplify different and diverse ways of knowing […]

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