Organisation
Oxfam
Oxfam is a development, advocacy, and relief non-governmental organisation which works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Current campaigns include: GROW, which encompasses issues around food security, including climate change, food price spikes, land grabs and support for small scale producers, Essential Services campaign, and Arms Trade campaign.
Oxfam is comprised of 17 affiliates including Oxfam GB and the Oxfam International secretariat. Information products include:
- Oxfam Policy and Practice: An online library of practitioner resources such as research reports, policy papers, case studies, evaluations and practical guides. The site contains information about Oxfam programmes and staff, as well as blog posts.
- Oxfam International
- Oxfam GB (main public site)
Oxfam also publishes the Gender & Development Journal.
Published Documents
- Learning the Lessons? Assessing the response to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel to build resilience for the future
- Oxfam, 2013
- In 2012, the Sahel region of West and Central Africa was once again hit by a severe food crisis, affecting over 18 million people at its peak. At the start of 2012, when the crisis began to unfold, many governments, donors and aid age...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Ending violence against women: an Oxfam guide
- M Raab / Oxfam, 2012
- This practical guide was written for Oxfam staff to inform and inspire their work, and to share with partners and peers, but it is also useful for anyone else interested in this subject. The guide begins with an outline of key concept...
- The “We Can” Campaign in South Asia, 2004-2011. External evaluation report
- M Raab / Oxfam, 2011
- This evaluation was commissioned by Oxfam GB to measure the impact of the We Can campaign, which ran from 2004-2010 in six countries across south Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The overall goal o...
- Extreme weather events and crop price spikes in a changing climate: illustrative global simulation scenarios
- D. Willenbockel / Oxfam, 2012
- Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes. Various impact studies have considered the effects of projected long-run trends in temperature, precipitation and carbon dioxide concentrations caused by cli...
- The economic crisis and Filipino women's rights
- K. Gaerlan; M. Cabrera; P. Samia; L. Santoalla (ed) / Oxfam, 2010
- In the Philippines, the financial crisis has been particularly hard on the low income classes to which many unskilled, mainly women workers in the semiconductor and electronics, and textile and garment industries belong. Their loss of...
- Gender and disaster risk reduction: a training pack
- M. C. Ciampi / Oxfam, 2011
- Understanding how gender relations shape women’s and men’s lives is critical to disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is because women’s and men’s different roles, responsibilities, and access to resources influence ...
- Whose Aid Is It Anyway? Politicizing aid in conflicts and crises
- Oxfam, 2011
- The effectiveness of international aid, both in meeting urgent needs and in tackling entrenched poverty, is being undermined in some of the world’s poorest places. While effective aid has helped save lives, protect rights and bui...
- Feminised financial flows: how gender affects remittances in Honduran-US transnational families
- A. Petrozziello / Oxfam, 2011
- This article focuses on Honduran immigrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and their family members in Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It traces the transfer of remittances from migrants to their families at home, in 20 transnational families....
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
