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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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Research report

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Research report

28/02/2023

4 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

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Briefing paper

Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Key takeaways for donors, INGOs and the wider sector

28/02/2023

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented event in the modern era. Earlier studies demonstrated how ‘critical junctures’, which comprise major historical events and emergencies, often play an essential role in social change. This paper seeks to explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic would prove to be a similar pivotal moment, and what lessons […]

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Briefing paper

Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality

16/01/2023

9 documents

57 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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We are living through an unprecedented moment of multiple crises. Tens of millions more people are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic goods or heating their homes. Poverty has increased for the first time in 25 years. At the same time, these multiple crises all have winners. […]

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Research report

Investing Special Drawing Rights: Towards a fair economic recovery in the Middle East and North Africa

12/01/2023

2 documents

81 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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In 2021, the IMF issued and distributed $650bn worth of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explores the unique characteristics of SDRs and provides an overview of the role of SDRs in the MENA region. Using four countries as case studies (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Tunisia), it analyses how SDRs can […]

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Briefing paper

The Assault of Austerity: How prevailing economic policy choices are a form of gender-based violence

22/11/2022

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This briefing paper argues that austerity measures are a form of gender-based violence against women, girls and non-binary people, and lays out clear examples of how fiscal consolidation affects them. Its core argument is that ending austerity must be a priority. The policies that deliver austerity’s deadly consequences can no longer be marketed as the […]

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Briefing note

Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019–2020

19/10/2022

5 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports claim that the climate finance they provided and mobilized reached $83.3bn in 2020, but Oxfam estimates the real value was only around a third of […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Briefing paper

Oxfam Gender in Emergencies Strategy 2022-25

01/10/2022

8 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

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This Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy for 2022–25 is a framework for more effective humanitarian action that acknowledges and addresses gender in a responsive, appropriate, and equitable manner. It identifies pathways to achieve this for individuals, Oxfam teams and partners, and the confederation as a whole. Oxfam’s 2022-25 Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy is interlinked […]

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