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Case study

Building Trust through Digital Innovation: Supporting community-led action through group cash transfers in Lebanon

06/08/2026

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfers (GCTs) provide unrestricted cash grants to unregistered, emerging, or self-mobilising community groups, enabling them to design and implement projects that respond to the priorities of crisis-affected communities. Building on Oxfam’s GCT approach in Lebanon, this case study explores the development of a digital platform designed specifically for community groups. The platform provides […]

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Journal article

Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

15/06/2026

20 pages long

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Strategic essentialism, instrumentalism, and advocacy for women’s leadership: Exploring the approaches of Vanuatu women’s organisations

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Gender myths – including essentialist and instrumentalist framings – can inspire action, but they can also perpetuate stereotypes and reinforce gender roles and norms. In this paper, I use Gayatri Spivak’s concept of strategic essentialism to explore how women’s organisations in Vanuatu navigate the advantages and risks of using essentialist and instrumentalist framings in their […]

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Journal article

Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

15/06/2026

20 pages long

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Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: Epistemic strategies from the Global South

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This article examines how Chilean feminist health activists produce knowledge and reimagine healthcare by challenging dominant biomedical and neoliberal approaches. Drawing on six semi-structured interviews with feminist activists organising within the field of women’s health, the analysis is framed around three concepts: the politics of knowledge, self-determination, and contextualisation. First, the article shows that activists […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Safe Programming in Humanitarian Responses: A guide to managing risk

18/05/2026

15 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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The Safe Programming booklet outlines the safe programming approach, which exists to prevent harm in our work as Oxfam, centring the needs of communities and partners to be safe to participate. The simple risk assessment (Safe Programming Risk Assessment) is a suggested tool to complete the mandatory process of identifying and acknowledging risks in every […]

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Briefing paper

Time to Walk the Talk: The IMF’s tax advice, 2022-2024

06/04/2026

3 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Since the pandemic, the IMF’s leadership has been urging countries to pursue more progressive tax policies, backed up by the Fund’s own research. Despite this encouraging development, the IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as […]

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Annual report

Test item – OAI interface check

01/01/2026

1 documents

Languages: French

Discussion paper

Systems Change: Insights and reflections for development practitioners

29/09/2025

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores systems thinking and systems change from the perspective of people actively working on addressing root-causes of problems in their specific fields. Following a brief overview of the basic tenets of the systems approach, the paper outlines the distilled insights drawn from interviews with 18 systems thinkers from diverse fields and countries. Their […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Ethical Content Guidelines: Upholding the rights of the people in the pictures in content gathering, management and use

27/08/2025

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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These guidelines cover the gathering of content, the management of content, and the use of content by Oxfam for its public engagement work. The main purpose of these guidelines is to ensure that content is gathered, managed and used ethically, in ways that uphold contributors’ rights to participate and be heard, to experience respect and […]

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Case study

Launching Group Cash Transfers in Nepal

30/07/2025

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides cash in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups enabling them to design and implement projects that address the urgent needs and longer-term recovery of crisis-affected populations. In October 2023, Oxfam and NEEDS Nepal piloted four GCT initiatives in the southwestern […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Conflict Sensitivity Framework

17/07/2025

24 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Any intervention in a fragile or conflict affected context will inevitably have an impact on that context. These impacts may be intended or unintended, positive or negative, relatively minor or highly significant. Any organisation operating in such a context therefore has a responsibility to try to understand what those impacts may be, and to account […]

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