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Fiscal Justice Global Track Record: Oxfam’s tax, budget and social accountability work

20/09/2016

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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For Oxfam, fiscal justice is about people having the space, voice and agency to exercise their rights – and through this to influence and monitor fiscal systems to mobilize greater revenue and increase spending for quality public services. Fiscal justice is a critical lever to tackle extreme inequality and reduce poverty. It is about more […]

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Research report

Consolidated Gender Analysis for the Ethiopian Drought Response

16/09/2016

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is the first to be published by the project ‘Institutionalising Gender in Emergencies’, which is funded by the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and implemented by Oxfam in Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is a gender analysis developed in collaboration with CARE Ethiopia and combines a desk review with […]

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Briefing paper

I Ask the World to Empathize: Voices of people on the move

15/09/2016

4 documents

24 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Worldwide, more than 65 million people have fled conflict, violence and persecution. Millions more are driven from their homes by disasters, drought and inequality. This paper tells the stories of some of those millions of people. Many have relied on local people sharing their scarce resources. In contrast, too many governments have failed to share […]

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Media briefing

Different Conflict, Same Crisis

15/09/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The vast majority of refugees and asylum seekers are hosted by poorer countries and almost four million have been welcomed by countries which themselves have experienced armed violence or are in conflict. With more people fleeing violence and persecution now than at any time since records began, governments must make firm commitments at two major […]

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Briefing paper

Accountability and Ownership: The role of aid in a post-2015 world

14/09/2016

3 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian

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In September 2015, world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)–an ambitious new agenda to eliminate poverty and achieve a sustainable world by 2030. The role of aid in achieving the SDGs, in which national accountability and ownership are paramount, should not be underestimated. As the world marks one year since the signing of the […]

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Technical briefing

Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on human rights and medicines: Oxfam’s response

14/09/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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In December 2015, the UN Secretary-General set up a High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines to ‘recommend solutions for remedying the policy incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health in the context of health technologies’. Oxfam International Executive Director Winnie Byanyima is one of the 16 […]

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Briefing note

Making Maize Markets Work For All in Southern Africa

12/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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In most of sub-Saharan Africa, maize is a staple food crop – grown on some 33 million hectares of the total 194 million hectares of cultivated land. Southern African also has some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. Small-scale maize producers in the region face numerous obstacles and are both buyers and sellers […]

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Research report

Precarious Lives: Work, food and care after the global food crisis

09/09/2016

3 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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When food prices spiked in 2008, the international price of basic food items peaked at unprecedented levels, bringing a wave of food riots in low-income countries. Subsequent price volatility had huge impacts on millions of people who struggled to feed their families nutritiously. Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility was a real-time investigation by […]

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Case study

Innovative Electronic Cash Transfer Programme for Emergencies: An Oxfam–Visa case study in the Philippines

08/09/2016

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Delivering aid to a large, displaced population provides challenges for governments, the private sector and aid organizations in the aftermath of any humanitarian crisis. The increasing scale and impact of disaster events call for innovative solutions for a more efficient and effective delivery of cash to affected populations. This case study describes how Oxfam and […]

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Media briefing

Children Alone: Pulled from the sea, fallen by the wayside

08/09/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The latest data estimates that around half of all refugees worldwide are under 18 years old. In 2015, nearly 100,000 children who lodged an asylum request were unaccompanied, meaning they were not assisted or represented by their parents or any other adult. In Italy, according to the UNHCR, the number of unaccompanied children has risen […]

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