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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Regional Influencing Work in Horn, East and Central Africa: A case study of the Rights in Crisis and Extractive Industries initiatives

28/11/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) Regional Platform was established in 2016. Among the platform’s far-reaching portfolio are two influencing initiatives – the Rights in Crisis network and Extractive Industries programme. Despite their ambitious scope and the challenging context, this report confirms that Oxfam has contributed effectively to change at all levels. These changes […]

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Briefing paper

Women Defenders of Agricultural, Territorial, and Environmental Rights in Colombia: Risking their lives for peace

02/10/2019

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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In Colombia, the women who defend their land, their culture, and the environment are being threatened, harassed, and sometimes even murdered. Since the Peace Agreement was signed, their territories have become highly desirable property. While defenders try to preserve these territories, armed groups are prepared to kill for them. These women are true peace builders, […]

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Briefing paper

Examining the Crude Details: Government audits of oil and gas project costs to maximize revenue collection

13/11/2018

12 documents

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The petroleum sector offers governments huge potential revenues that could be invested in poverty alleviation and inequality reduction, but those revenues must first be collected. Taxes are levied on profits, but companies may seek to reduce their taxes by deducting ineligible or exaggerated costs, often paid to related parties. Governments’ essential tool to combat petroleum […]

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Briefing paper

Contract Disclosure Survey 2018: A review of the contract disclosure policies of 40 oil, gas and mining companies

03/05/2018

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In most countries, subsoil oil, gas and mining resources are the property of citizens and are managed on their behalf by governments. The projects that contracts govern typically last longer than most governments. Estimated oil, gas and mineral rents totalled $1.7 trillion globally in 2015 – 1.7% of global GDP in that year and more […]

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Briefing paper

Closing the Divide in Malawi: How to reduce inequality and increase prosperity for all

25/04/2018

2 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Inequality between the richest and the rest in Malawi continues to rise, with poverty remaining extreme and endemic. Climate change is compounding the challenges, with recent droughts and floods likely to have worsened poverty, resulting in one in three Malawians relying on humanitarian assistance in 2016. Economic inequality threatens to undermine the hard-fought and important […]

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Briefing paper

Testing Community Consent: Tullow Oil project in Kenya

08/11/2017

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study assesses the extent of Tullow Oil’s compliance with the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in Turkana County, Kenya. It examines the company’s engagement in selected communities and finds that, while community engagement processes have improved in important ways, it has yet to achieve FPIC. The study provides recommendations that […]

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Case study

Budget Monitoring for Economic Justice in Ghana

10/07/2017

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s economic justice programme in Ghana seeks to support smallholder farmers, with a focus on the country’s northern communities and coastal fishing communities in the south, and is based on three core pillars: adaptation, risk reduction and gender equity; value chain and rural enterprise development; and policy framework, budget monitoring and private sector development. This […]

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Briefing paper

Starting with People: A human economy approach to inclusive growth in Africa

02/05/2017

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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High levels of inequality across Africa have prevented much of the benefits of recent growth from reaching the continent’s poorest people. To combat inequality in Africa, political and business leaders have to shape a profoundly different type of economy. It must start with the needs of Africa’s women and young people for good quality sustainable […]

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Briefing note

Position Paper on Gender Justice and the Extractive Industries

30/03/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

Oxfam International’s Position paper on Gender Justice and the Extractive Industries. This paper outlines Oxfam’s position on gender justice in the context of extractive industries. It describes some of the causes and consequences of the EI sector’s gendered impacts, and it summarizes Oxfam’s recommendations to mining, oil, and gas companies, to governments, and to international […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

A Guide to Gender Impact Assessment for the Extractive Industries

01/01/2017

1 documents

Languages: English

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Overview

This is the updated guide to gender impact assessment. A tool for the industry to ensure that women’s voices are meaningfully included in project decision-making.

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