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The Edge of Influence: Lessons on Power, Partnership and Pressure in Private Sector Engagement from the FAIR for ALL Programme

31/03/2026

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This discussion paper examines how FAIR for ALL partners engaged with the private sector to advance fairer and more sustainable global trade and value chains. Drawing on insights from eight countries and regions, it identifies the key factors that shape effective private sector engagement amid diverse and often complex challenges. The findings show how civil […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

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Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]

Case study

Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Development: For sustainable alliances in the South Caucasus

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme’s overall objective is ‘to contribute to the improvement of food security and nutrition in the South Caucasus through smallholder farmers’ representation in the governance processes’. It focuses on working with government structures and civil society actors to develop, implement and monitor food security-related strategies and legislation, ensuring that support mechanisms are in place […]

Case study

Working in Partnership With Others: Facilitating changes in livelihoods in Rwanda

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme has four main objectives: Employment and value chain development. Enhancing the enabling environment for agricultural markets and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Strengthening citizen participation in government decision making related to the agriculture sector. Strengthening women’s economic leadership. This document focuses on these areas and how the programme has addressed the government’s ban […]

Showing 321 matching results from Policy & Practice

Webpage

Partnership at Oxfam

It is through strong partnerships and collective action that we make a positive impact on poverty and injustice

Discussion paper

The Edge of Influence: Lessons on Power, Partnership and Pressure in Private Sector Engagement from the FAIR for ALL Programme

31/03/2026

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This discussion paper examines how FAIR for ALL partners engaged with the private sector to advance fairer and more sustainable global trade and value chains. Drawing on insights from eight countries and regions, it identifies the key factors that shape effective private sector engagement amid diverse and often complex challenges. The findings show how civil […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]

Case study

Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Development: For sustainable alliances in the South Caucasus

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme’s overall objective is ‘to contribute to the improvement of food security and nutrition in the South Caucasus through smallholder farmers’ representation in the governance processes’. It focuses on working with government structures and civil society actors to develop, implement and monitor food security-related strategies and legislation, ensuring that support mechanisms are in place […]

Case study

Working in Partnership With Others: Facilitating changes in livelihoods in Rwanda

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme has four main objectives: Employment and value chain development. Enhancing the enabling environment for agricultural markets and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Strengthening citizen participation in government decision making related to the agriculture sector. Strengthening women’s economic leadership. This document focuses on these areas and how the programme has addressed the government’s ban […]

Showing 321 matching results from Policy & Practice

Webpage

Partnership at Oxfam

It is through strong partnerships and collective action that we make a positive impact on poverty and injustice

Discussion paper

The Edge of Influence: Lessons on Power, Partnership and Pressure in Private Sector Engagement from the FAIR for ALL Programme

31/03/2026

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This discussion paper examines how FAIR for ALL partners engaged with the private sector to advance fairer and more sustainable global trade and value chains. Drawing on insights from eight countries and regions, it identifies the key factors that shape effective private sector engagement amid diverse and often complex challenges. The findings show how civil […]

Case study

Youth Participation and Transparency in National Budgeting: Learning from a youth-led partnership in Vietnam

01/04/2019

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam partnered with Ech Phu Ho (EPH), a youth-led activist group and online community in Vietnam, on a Budget Transparency campaign to call for more participatory planning within the Vietnamese national budget. Traditionally, the budget has only been open to the public once it has been approved.

Journal article

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

27/03/2015

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Grassroots women’s accountability mechanisms: strengthening urban governance through organising and partnerships

Keywords

Overview

Women living in marginalised urban neighbourhoods are often excluded from the economic, political, and social resources available to other city dwellers. The focus on the decentralisation of services and resource provision in urban areas presents an opportunity to citizens, including women, to organise to hold local government to account. This article builds on case studies […]

Journal article

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

12/12/2023

20 pages long

Free access through journal website

Who knows, who writes, and who decolonises? Dialogues about collaborative partnerships of a rural education initiative in post-accord Colombia

Keywords

Overview

Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while […]

Research report

Shaking Up to Move Forward: Visions for stronger partnerships between youth movements and social organizations

12/08/2020

3 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Youth-led progressive and feminist movements are some of the most powerful drivers of change in many countries, pushing path-breaking progress on political accountability, climate justice, gender equality and economic transformation. With youth movements set to be protagonists of systemic change in the next decade, understanding how to equitably partner with and enhance the power of […]

Journal article

Private-public partnership, the compact city, and social housing: best practice for whom?

01/05/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Casa Propia programme of the Buenos Aires City Government is an innovative case of public-private financing of social housing. It aims to encourage investors to build housing on private land for sale to low-income buyers receiving ‘soft’ credits from the state. The Casa Propia experience suggests that in the South, where states tends to […]

Case study

Growing Partnerships: Private sector working with farmers in Sri Lanka

09/06/2011

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]

Case study

Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Development: For sustainable alliances in the South Caucasus

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme’s overall objective is ‘to contribute to the improvement of food security and nutrition in the South Caucasus through smallholder farmers’ representation in the governance processes’. It focuses on working with government structures and civil society actors to develop, implement and monitor food security-related strategies and legislation, ensuring that support mechanisms are in place […]

Case study

Working in Partnership With Others: Facilitating changes in livelihoods in Rwanda

10/07/2017

3 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The programme has four main objectives: Employment and value chain development. Enhancing the enabling environment for agricultural markets and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Strengthening citizen participation in government decision making related to the agriculture sector. Strengthening women’s economic leadership. This document focuses on these areas and how the programme has addressed the government’s ban […]