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Briefing paper

Grounding Women’s Land Rights: Towards equity and climate justice

20/09/2023

4 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This policy paper provides a critical examination of international commitments on women's land rights, evaluating progress and persistent challenges. It scrutinizes commitments made through the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalitions, revealing a substantial disconnect between ambitions and implementation.

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Briefing paper

Payment Overdue: Fair ways to make polluters across the UK pay for climate justice

18/09/2023

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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As large sources of emissions, wealthy countries, fossil fuel companies and rich individuals, are disproportionately responsible for the climate crisis in which we find ourselves. Yet, for decades, they have been let off with not paying to deal with its consequences. As a result, the world is far behind on the spending needed to ensure […]

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Discussion paper

Are G20 Countries Doing Their Fair Share of Global Climate Mitigation?: Comparing ambition and fair shares assessments of G20 countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

07/09/2023

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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As the group of the world’s largest economies and biggest emitters, G20 countries are central to implementing solutions to the climate emergency. This discussion paper assesses to what extent they are setting climate mitigation targets that are ambitious enough and/or meet their fair share of global emissions reductions consistent with limiting global heating to 1.5°C. […]

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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

Sick Development: How rich-country government and World Bank funding to for-profit private hospitals causes harm and should be stopped

29/06/2023

6 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block patients from getting care, or bankrupt them, with some even imprisoning patients who cannot afford their bills. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of […]

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Issue briefing

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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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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Discussion paper

Market Analysis of Pilot Run Fortified Parboiled Rice in Burkina Faso

01/06/2023

2 documents

82 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This research documents the results of the piloting of an innovative technology with a limited-water fortification parboiling method developed by the University of Arkansas with eleven women rice parboiling cooperatives in Burkina Faso. The technology is easily adaptable to the parboiling method currently used in Burkina Faso (with some modifications), reduces water use and cost […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

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