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How Can We Bring About Meaningful Change for Women by Investing Differently in Small Enterprises?

15 Jul 2022

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Oxfam-supported enterprises have generated high impact and demonstrated strong business performance. Now, the shift to make women’s economic empowerment a more central focus and the opportunity to generate more meaningful impact has put us on track to transition towards a new enterprise investment model. In the future, more attention will be paid to the structural […]

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Briefing paper

Footing the Bill: Fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts

07 Jun 2022

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The world has entered a new and dangerous era of climate change impacts, causing huge loss and damage and driving up inequality in the world’s poorest countries and communities that have contributed least to the climate crisis. New research by Oxfam estimates that funding requirements for UN humanitarian appeals linked to extreme weather are eight […]

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Briefing paper

Dangerous Delay 2: The cost of inaction

18 May 2022

7 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Somali, Spanish

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In 2011, Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people. Afterwards, leaders in the region made a commitment to end drought emergencies by 2022. The international community sought to ensure that there would be no repeat of the failures that led to famine. Next time, the world would heed […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19

17 Jan 2022

8 documents

60 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as well as the inequality that exists between countries—are tearing our world apart. This is not by chance, but choice: “economic violence” is perpetrated […]

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Briefing paper

Le Leadership Humanitaire Local au Burkina Faso : Passer de belles paroles aux actes

13 Dec 2021

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Ce rapport s’intéresse d’abord aux causes et défis qui permettent d’expliquer la marginalisation des acteurs locaux en faisant notamment remonter leurs perceptions. Une deuxième partie met en valeur les bonnes pratiques existantes et proposer des actions concrètes pour renforcer la place des acteurs locaux et éventuellement le leadership humanitaire local (LHL) dans la réponse au […]

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Briefing paper

Negotiating Consent: Lessons in defending the right to decide

09 Dec 2021

3 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Indigenous peoples have long asserted and defended their rights and customary land tenures against the unlawful enclosure of their territories. Yet, despite normative recognition of the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC)—and public commitments by major multinational companies, international financial institutions, and global banks to apply the standard of consent—power imbalances continue to […]

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Briefing paper

More Local is Possible: Recommendations for enhancing local humanitarian leadership and refugee participation in the Gambella refugee response

01 Dec 2021

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The Gambella region of western Ethiopia hosts over 300,000 South Sudanese refugees in seven camps. The refugee response is dominated by UN agencies and international NGOs and staffed mostly by Ethiopians from outside of Gambella, creating a gap between humanitarian actors and the people they seek to assist. In order to realize commitments to localization […]

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Briefing paper

The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crises of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

25 Nov 2021

6 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a global pandemic existing in all social groups across the globe, yet it has largely been ignored in the COVID-19 response and recovery plans. It is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified GBV, including domestic violence and intimate partner violence amongst other forms of violations, but the investments in […]

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Evaluation report

Political Advocacy in Colombia: Impact Evaluation of the “Building peace by securing rights for victims of conflict and violence in Colombia” project

18 Oct 2021

4 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The “Building peace by securing rights for victims of conflict and violence in Colombia” project was implemented by Oxfam in Colombia and a network of partners from 2015-2019. It focused on helping victims and Colombian human rights and peace organisations to strengthen their capacities to demand justice for rights violations and to advocate for a […]

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Discussion paper

Women, Voice and Power: How transformative feminist leadership is challenging inequalities and the root causes of extreme vulnerability

06 Oct 2021

5 documents

52 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The evidence can no longer be ignored: when women and feminist activists are able to use their collective power to challenge inequalities, they are having a transformational impact. From women’s rights organizations and movements breaking down harmful social norms, to political leaders advancing highly progressive policies, there is a growing body of evidence from feminist […]

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