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Research report

Centering Women’s Rights Organizations: Evaluative research on Oxfam’s COVID-19 response in Colombia, Iraq, and Kenya

01/07/2024

13 documents

54 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, Spanish

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The purpose of this research is to understand the broader context of the humanitarian response to COVID-19 from the perspective of women’s rights organizations (WROs) and to understand how well Oxfam has upheld local humanitarian leadership (LHL) commitments in relation to its partnerships with WROs. From the literature, as well as from Oxfam’s experience in […]

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Briefing note

Climate Plans for the People: Civil society and community participation in national action plans on climate change

25/03/2024

5 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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In 2024, all countries will be updating and submitting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These national climate plans outline commitments towards tackling climate change. These plans impact all walks of life and must therefore be inclusive of the whole of society. By examining recent practices across 11 countries, Oxfam found that NDCs were not sufficiently […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

15/01/2024

9 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in […]

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Campaign report

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

20/11/2023

7 documents

136 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, Spanish

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The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and […]

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Briefing paper

The Middle East and North Africa Gap: Prosperity for the rich, austerity for the rest

05/10/2023

6 documents

46 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper examines growing inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis. It examines the lack of adequate and just taxation systems across the region, particularly wealth taxes. This limits governments’ fiscal […]

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Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

5 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

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Case study

Barriers to Reporting Misconduct: Understanding power, intersectionality and context

18/08/2023

4 documents

31 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This report concludes Oxfam’s research project on Factors Influencing Misconduct Reporting, which began in 2019–20 by identifying specific barriers in Myanmar, Iraq and Ghana. To test the integration of recommendations from this research, Oxfam then conducted two pilot projects in Iraq and Ghana from May 2021 to September 2022. Oxfam in Iraq focused on survivors’ […]

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Discussion paper

Radical Pathways Beyond GDP: Why and how we need to pursue feminist and decolonial alternatives urgently

03/08/2023

9 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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There is growing consensus among policymakers, institutions and movements that GDP is not fit for purpose as the pre-eminent economic metric. Alternatives are urgently needed to facilitate the transition to a new economic model that supports a radically more equal, kinder, greener and feminist world in the present, while offering redress for historical damage and […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of the $100 billion commitment

05/06/2023

8 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries committed in the Copenhagen Accords to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020. This year’s report finds that high-income countries have not only failed to deliver on their commitment, but […]

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Briefing paper

Speaking Up: The role of women in building peace in Yemen

08/03/2023

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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This paper brings the voices of Yemeni women forward. Women were active in the 2011 protests, influencing political developments at key junctures. However, subsequent armed conflicts militarized the political environment and pushed forward a more limited religious agenda that saw more and more women systematically marginalized in the process. This paper outlines these major trends and […]

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