Vietnam Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

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

Climate finance in Asia: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions

01/11/2022

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards including extreme temperatures, flooding, droughts, cyclones, and sea level rise. The most vulnerable communities need financial support to help adapt to the climate crisis – they cannot do so alone. Developed countries have promised $100 bn in climate finance to developing countries every year until 2025. This promise […]

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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

What Drives Active Citizens? Testing our assumptions through a comparative analysis of citizen data from seven countries

30/06/2021

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

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This report investigates the characteristics of active citizens who raise their voices towards duty-bearers. First, we look at the demographics of people who raise their voices towards duty-bearers. Then, we investigate the various types of citizens' actions and which attitudes and norms active citizens hold. Supporting citizens in raising their voices is one of the […]

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Case study

How Oxfam Has Worked With Unilever to Enhance its Social Impact

22/01/2021

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study is notable for how one of the UK’s foremost companies, Unilever, engaged with Oxfam’s request to conduct a ‘gap analysis’ between the company’s labour rights policies and the reality on the ground for workers. Following the research in Vietnam, for which the company provided unprecedented access to its staff and suppliers, Unilever […]

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Research report

Gender Visible: Learning about gender integration in the Right to Food Programme

31/12/2020

1 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2018, the Oxfam Novib Right to Food Programme (R2F) team formulated an ambitious threefold learning goal around the integration of gender. First, it wanted to capture the diversity in the way the programme integrated gender. Secondly, it aimed to learn what is at the roots of this diversity. Lastly, it aimed to boost further […]

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Research report

An assessment of overall effectiveness of agricultural multi-stakeholder initiatives with specific attention to smallholder inclusiveness, and recommendations for improvement

31/12/2020

1 documents

79 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam engages with multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) to discover how they can further move sectors towards social, economic and environmental sustainability. The main purpose of this report is to assess the current roles of MSIs on key social and human rights topics and to explore how they can improve their performance on these topics. In addition, […]

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Research report

Capital Gains Taxes and Indirect Offshore Transfers

22/07/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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Efforts by multinational corporations to avoid paying taxes in developing countries have a big impact on the ability of those countries to provide public services to their population. The report focuses into a technique utilized to avoid Capital Gains Tax – called Offshore Indirect Transfers – and looks into seven distinct concrete cases that resulted […]

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Discussion paper

Financing for Development in Vietnam: After International Development Association (IDA) graduation

25/10/2019

1 documents

104 pages long

Languages: English

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As Vietnam graduates from IDA, the World Bank’s concessional finance window, there will be a major change in the types of development finance the country can access. Oxfam is concerned about what this changing financial landscape might mean for Vietnam’s fight against poverty, inequality, and gender inequality. This discussion paper explores these challenges by assessing […]

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Discussion paper

Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development

04/06/2019

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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UK international development actors – from government to private sector and NGOs – can play a key role in fighting extreme economic inequality to beat poverty in developing countries. This paper shares key principles, policies and programmes that have emerged from Oxfam’s work with partners around the world in recent years, so as to encourage […]

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