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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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Gender in Emergencies: Practical tools for transformative action

07/10/2025

1 documents

159 pages long

Languages: English

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Building on the progress made, the Oxfam Action Guide is designed to help COs turn Oxfam’s Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy and Standards into practical, context specific actions that make a real impact in crisis affected communities. Clear, concise, and easy to translate, the guide provides step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and key resources to support […]

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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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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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Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis Toolkit

29/10/2024

3 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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A Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis toolkit (PS RCA) is a rapid process for businesses and workers to understand the heavy responsibility and long hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), usually done by women workers. The guide also makes the case for why private sector companies should address UCDW as part of workers’ […]

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Rapid Market Assessment: A beginner’s guide

15/11/2023

1 documents

Languages: English

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The purpose of this document is to introduce the minimum information required for becoming market aware, understanding risks (opportunity and threats), and designing and implementing market-sensitive programmes (including but not limited to cash and voucher programming).

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How to Talk about Care in the UK: A framing toolkit

30/05/2023

6 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Across the UK, many people providing paid and unpaid care – including parents and guardians of children, paid care workers, and unpaid carers – experience poverty, and great physical and emotional pressures. This is because the care they provide remains largely taken for granted and is not properly supported by governments and wider society. In […]

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Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework

26/05/2023

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Companies are increasingly engaging in Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs). To assess the quality of company-commissioned HRIAs, Oxfam has developed criteria that cover both process and content. They are key to ensuring that the research captures all relevant adverse risks to human rights, to support companies in understanding how their practices have an impact on […]

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Inclusive Language Guide

08/03/2023

1 documents

93 pages long

Languages: English

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Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. As we are making commitments to decolonization in practice, it is important that we do not forget the role of language and communications in the context of inequality. The Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people […]

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The Group Cash Transfer (GCT) Approach: Learning report on GCT pilots

27/01/2023

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides resources in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups to implement projects that contribute to the immediate survival and recovery needs of a crisis-affected population, benefiting either a sub-section of the community or the community at large. With funding from Oxfam […]

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