Transparency Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Climate Finance Unchecked: How much does the World Bank know about the climate actions it claims?

17/10/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam finds that for World Bank projects, many things can change during implementation. On average, actual expenditures on the Bank’s projects differ from budgeted amounts by 26–43% above or below the claimed climate finance. Across the entire climate finance portfolio, between 2017 and 2023, this difference amounts to US$24.28–US$41.32 billion. No information is available about […]

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Briefing paper

Unaccountable Adaptation: The Asian Development Bank’s overstated claims on climate adaptation finance

02/05/2024

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite positioning itself as the ‘climate bank of Asia and the Pacific’, it is difficult to ascertain the Asian Development Bank’s claims of climate adaptation finance. Oxfam analysed the bank’s 2019–2023 climate finance portfolio and conducted a detailed assessment of 15 climate adaptation projects, comprising 43% of reported adaptation finance for FY 2021 and 2022. […]

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Briefing paper

Unaccountable Accounting: The World Bank’s unreliable climate finance reporting

03/10/2022

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite being the largest multilateral provider of climate finance, the World Bank supplies very little evidence to support its claims about the amount of climate finance it provides. Oxfam has attempted to recreate the Bank’s reported climate finance figures using public information for projects in the Bank’s FY2020. Oxfam found that the Bank’s current climate finance reporting processes […]

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Research report

TOSSD Data for 2020: An overview of key trends in the data in support of sustainable development

01/06/2022

1 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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Data on total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD) take a recipient perspective, in contrast to official development assistance (ODA) data, which take a donor perspective. The TOSSD metric captures development resource flows that are not included in donors’ reports to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee, and are intended to […]

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Research report

Analyzing European Union Institutions’ Flows for Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD)

22/02/2022

1 documents

63 pages long

Languages: English

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This report analyses the first round of Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) data from European Union (EU) Institutions. The EU is a key stakeholder in the development of TOSSD, as Co-Chair of the International TOSSD Task Force, and in the promotion of this as an essential metric in the implementation of Agenda 2030. […]

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Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

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Case study

Oxfam in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Citizen mobilization and increased transparency for better budgets

19/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has been able to amplify citizens’ needs and voices in the midst of one of the most complex contexts. Together with its partners, Oxfam has run a successful public campaign collecting signatures and backing from more than 42,000 people across the OPTI, in support of more Money […]

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Briefing paper

Open Books: How development finance institutions can be transparent in their financial intermediary lending, and why they should be

16/10/2018

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Development finance institutions (DFIs) have recognized the importance of openness and transparency in projects they finance directly, yet they have not extended this to high-risk projects financed through their financial intermediary clients. As DFIs are increasingly providing financing through financial intermediaries, Oxfam has outlined a suggested framework, Open Books for High-Risk Financing, which proposes a […]

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Discussion paper

Walking the Talk: Assessing companies’ progress from SDG rhetoric to action

24/09/2018

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Three years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reliable information on how companies are working to contribute to the SDGs remains sparse. This paper uses five general themes (prioritization; integration; ambition; human rights and gender equality; and reporting) to review the SDG engagement of 76 of the world’s largest companies. It finds […]

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Evaluation report

Accountability Review in Kenya: Evaluation of the ‘Improving Access to Water Sanitation Services’ project

28/08/2018

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Accountability is one of the 11 standards that Oxfam is expected to meet in its development work. It is the process through which an organisation balances the needs of stakeholders in its decision-making and activities, and delivers against this commitment. One of the three projects randomly selected for an Accountability Review this year was SWIFT, […]

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