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Promoting Active Citizenship: What have we learned from 10 case studies of Oxfam’s work?

16/01/2015

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This paper pulls together insights and lessons from 10 case studies of Oxfam’s work in promoting active citizenship. The case studies, written over the course of 2013/14, employ a ‘theory of change approach’ to explore how change happens in different contexts. This summary also briefly reflects on the challenges to using that approach. The case […]

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Power and Change: The Arms Trade Treaty

16/01/2015

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14 pages long

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In October 2003, Oxfam, together with Amnesty International, the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and many other organizations across the world launched the Control Arms campaign. The aim of the campaign was to reduce armed violence and conflict through global controls on the arms trade, and the primary objective was an international Arms […]

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Advocating for Gulf Coast Restoration in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Oxfam America RESTORE Act Campaign

16/01/2015

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam America’s domestic programme was already active in the Gulf Coast states when the 2010 BP oil spill occurred. Building on its community links, backed by clever use of national advocacy, the programme was able to take advantage of a ‘shock as opportunity’, helping ensure that the subsequent wave of compensation and other support benefited […]

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The Chhattisgarh Community Forest Rights Project, India

16/01/2015

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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India’s new and heavily forested state of Chhattisgarh is home to some of its most marginalized communities, whose traditional ways of living from forest products are under threat from encroachment by mining and other activities. Oxfam India has supported a local partner NGO, Chaupal, to help forest communities to take advantage of the implementation gap […]

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Community Protection Committees in Democratic Republic of Congo

16/01/2015

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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The Community Protection Committee (CPC) programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows what can be achieved in promoting rights and protection in the most inauspicious circumstances. Promoting a process of non-confrontational dialogue and strengthening women’s voices within it has had tangible results in reducing abuses, improving gender equality and developing more positive relationships […]

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The Raising Her Voice Global Programme

16/01/2015

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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Raising Her Voice (RHV) was a new kind of Oxfam ‘global programme’, assembling a portfolio of projects in a similar field, working in different countries and regions. From 2008 to 2013, the RHV programme supported 19 projects across four continents, 17 national and two regional, working to ensure that women’s voices influence decision making about […]

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The Chukua Hatua Accountability Programme, Tanzania

16/01/2015

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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The Chukua Hatua (CH) programme run by Oxfam GB and its implementing partners is a five-year governance and accountability initiative in Tanzania (2010–15). The goal of the CH programme is to achieve increased accountability and responsiveness of government to its citizens. The programme aims to achieve this by creating active citizenship; that is, citizens who […]

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The ‘We Can’ Campaign in South Asia

16/01/2015

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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We Can End All Violence Against Women (‘We Can’) in South Asia is an extraordinary, viral campaign targetting violence against women, reaching millions of men and women across six countries and subsequently spreading to other countries in Africa, Europe and the Americas. What’s different about ‘We Can’ (apart from its scale) is that it is […]

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The Raising Her Voice Nepal Programme

16/01/2015

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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While gender inequality remains extreme in Nepal, Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme on women’s empowerment is contributing to and reinforcing an ongoing long-term shift in gender norms, driven by a combination of urbanization, migration, rising levels of literacy and access to media; all of which have combined to erode women’s traditional isolation. That shift […]

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The Indonesian Labour Rights Project

16/01/2015

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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From 1997–2013, Oxfam Australia’s Indonesian Labour Rights Project (ILRP) worked to help achieve ‘sustainable livelihoods for workers’ in factories in Indonesia that form part of global supply chains for major sportswear brands. As a result of sustained campaigns, the world’s largest sportswear brands, such as Nike and Adidas, now take workers’ rights more seriously than […]

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