Advocacy Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

15/06/2026

20 pages long

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Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

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Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]

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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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Briefing paper

Right-sizing Corporate Voice: A briefing for business on responsible political engagement

30/07/2024

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Businesses dominate the policymaking process, mostly prioritize short-term financial interests and provide minimal transparency, creating an inherent risk of corporate policy capture that has been exacerbated by practices across lobbying, advocacy and political spending. A new approach to corporate political engagement – building on existing frameworks and based on the familiar experience of developing human […]

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Journal article

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

31/08/2022

19 pages long

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The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

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COVID-19 has highlighted the centrality of care and women’s labour (paid and unpaid). While there is a growing body of literature on specific policy measures to address care work in different contexts, there is no global practical tool to track progress against key policy areas. This article introduces the Care Policy Scorecard, an evidence-based policy […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam and Protection: A guidance note (2022 update)

22/06/2022

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This guidance note outlines Oxfam’s understanding of protection within humanitarian responses, and the framework it uses for field-based protection work. It goes on to describe the main modes of action Oxfam uses in its work to bring about greater protection for civilians in conflict and disasters, including community-based protection, advocacy and campaigning work.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Guidance on Community-Led Sensitization

17/09/2021

4 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on community-led sensitization forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics advocacy, listening clubs, material support, radio, referrals, sensitization and theatre.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Guidance on Community-Led Protection Advocacy

17/09/2021

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on community-led protection advocacy forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics action plans, advocacy, authority engagement, protection analysis and risk analysis.

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Guidelines and toolkits

Supporting Self-Protection: A guidance note for protection volunteers and other protection actors

17/09/2021

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This template tool on supporting communities' self-protection mechanisms forms part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses the topics advocacy, authority engagement, information sharing, material support, negative coping strategies, protection analysis, self-protection outside community protection structures, social cohesion and sustainability.

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Case study

Rana, a Survivor of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse in Yemen

17/09/2021

3 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This is a case study produced by Oxfam’s Protection Team in Yemen as part of the Resource Pack on Community-Based Protection. The document discusses access to services, advocacy, authority engagement, culture, gender-based violence and referrrals.

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