Mission and Vision
A just world, without poverty. That is our mission. We believe that people can build independent livelihoods, provided their rights are respected. That is why we help people around the world to stand up for their rights.
1. Right to sustainable livelihood resources
Everybody must be sure of a fair income and enough to eat. Yet this is not the case for 20% of the world’s population. That is why we are working on better access to land and water, and on fair working and trading conditions.
2. Right to basic social services
Education and health care are essential for building better societies. Yet even as we make progress towards universal primary education, around the world, there are still 130 million kids in school who fail to learn basic reading, writing and maths. When governments fail to deliver, Oxfam together with partner organizations invest in quality basic social services.
3. Right to life and security
Natural disasters, climate change and armed conflicts hit millions of people every year. We support them with relief aid and reconstruction. And we prepare people to prevent or mitigate the effects of disasters and conflicts.
4. Right to social and political participation
Knowledge is power. We believe that when people can participate in public decisions that affect them, they can build independent livelihoods and thriving communities.Together with partners we give people access to information and a voice.
5. Right to an identity
Gender inequality is both a violation of human rights and an obstacle to sustainable development. In a just world there is no place for the discrimination of women and minorities.
Our Core Values
When people’s basic rights are respected, we can rid the world of poverty and injustice. This is what we stand for:
- Empowerment
We work on the basis of the power and potential of people. We provide practical and innovative solutions to empower people to build their livelihoods without poverty.
- Accountability
We call on those in power to consider people in a vulnerable position in word and action. And we of course account for our own work to governments, donors, supporters, volunteers, corporations and almost 17 million Dutch men and women.
- Inclusiveness
We are all equal, irrespective of the accident of birth, gender, faith or sexual orientation. In all our work we give special attention to the position and rights of women and minorities. And given the potentially pivotal role of women as agents of change, gender justice is at the heart of everything we do.
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Displaying 61 - 65 of 328NamunyakLepolosi#OurLandOurDecision
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Community land ownership no longer exists in Transmara, as land is already subdivided and titled for each head of the family, the men. This leaves women with limited access and no control over land decision-making, especially widowed women whose land is taken over by the husbands' male relatives. This project will increase indigenous women's access to and control of productive resources such as land by strengthening the networks of organized women groups in advocating for their land rights. This will improve women#s participation in decision making on land issues and ensure access to land, and other productive resources. The project will also work to sensitize the communities on women's land rights and ensure participation of women in land boards and other decision making bodies.
Maliasili Init - From Local to Global
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The present project aims to ensure participation of leading civil society organisations in the activities of the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights and more specifically the Global Land Forum, which will be held in Dakar from May 11 to May 17. As such it aims to ensure that the perspectives of communities, whose land rights are not recognized nor secured, are represented at the global policy level. Balanced participation of women and women's organizations will be sought. The project aims to ensure participation of leading African CSOs, such as Ujamaa Community Resource Team, Pastoral Womens Council, Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, Kenya Land Alliance, Kivulini Trust, Sustainable Development Institute, Center for Environment and Development, Centro Terra Viva, and others. The overall strategy and theory of change of the Global Call to Action is to bring about changes that enable and support the recognition of community land rights at the national scale, where such rights and tenure governance institutions are determined. The Global Call to Action does this through a range of strategic and collaborative actions that aim to support the ability of local communities and civil society organizations to bring about key national reforms; and to create an overall enabling environment that is more supportive of community land rights at the global scale.
CO-Oxf Vietn SIDA GROW Bridge Fund 2018
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Oxfam#s GROW campaign works for the billions of us who eat food # and for the more than one billion poor men and women who grow it.Through our global campaign, we address inequality in the global food system. Our overall objective is that people living in poverty claim power in the way the world manages land, water, and climate change, so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat # now and in the future. We support local communities to claim back their power, earn a living income, and to grow or buy food by ensuring investments in rural people. By ensuring investments in rural people, we support them in overcoming the dramatic impacts of climate change on agriculture, allowing them to thrive. GROW focusses on change at national levels and on opportunities to achieve international impact. More specifically, by 2019 we aim for more governments, multilateral institutions and companies implementing policies that promote sustainable food production and consumption, while supporting those most vulnerable to adapt to climate change, and helping communities# realise their rights to land with a particular focus on women who produce much of the world#s food. To ensure that the Sustainable Development Goals, including zero hunger, become a reality, we need innovative ideas that hold a promise of a better future for many # not just a privileged few. We believe there are key factors that drive hunger and inequality: unfair distributionwithin value chains, insecure land rights, climate change, gender inequalityand ever more young people desperate for opportunities leaving rural areas. Oxfam#s GROW campaign tackles the key sources in the broken global food system by working to mobilise impacted communities and active consumers alike. Since the launch of the GROW campaign in 2011 more than 10 million people have been reached through on- and offline campaign activities and a multitude of people has been reached through media coverage. We are proud of the achievements of GROW. We gave small-scale female farmers avoice; through the Behind the Brands campaign significant new commitments have been made by big food and beverage companies to improve social and environmental standards in their vast supply chains; we are proud of our contribution to keep climate finance, especially for adaptation and resilience, on the agenda of the global climate negotiations at COP21 in Paris; and we recently celebrated a land mark victory as the Constitutional Court in Colombia recognized the Land Rights of the indigenous communityCañamomo Lomaprieta and granted protection for ancestral mining activities. An overview of ourresults can be found on the interactive map. Oxfam is at the beginning of a new phase of the GROW campaign (2017 # 2020). Throughout the years, we have been actively updating our context analysis, testing drivers of change, reflecting on models of campaigning, addressing new key actors, and, exploring new alliances. Nonetheless, now more than ever we feel the need to increase our impact and change systemic drivers of inequality in the food system. In this document, we present three innovative work streams running until atleast 2020. 1. A new worldwide campaign addressing inequality in food value chains (expected launch October 2017) 2. The LandRightsNow campaign 3. Effective adaptation finance to support women farmers. These three projects have received seed funding from inter alia SIDA and we are currently looking for opportunities to up-scale them between 2017-2020 to reach our ultimate objectives. Wewant to note that this document does not present the future direction of the entire GROW campaign but presents three selected trajectories (2017 # 2020) where innovation is key.
SORF 2013-2015
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On invitation by the local government, SORF will start to work in 5 new villages in two communes in Krakor District, Pursat province, a remote area of Social Land Concession. The direct target group is 150 poor households covering 600 people (360 women, 240 men).By December 2015, the following Outcomes will be achieved. 1. Te 150 selected poor households in the five target villages have increased their income from on- and off-farm Income Generating Activities (IGAs) by 20%. Destitute people have increased access to social protection mechanisms within the village (a Village Social Protection Committee will identify suitable sustainable IGAs). 2. The 150 poor households will have improved food security through more equitable access to agricultural opportunities (vegetable growing, livestock raising, etc.) and small business opportunities through the improved management of community resources (human, financial, natural resources). 3. The 150 poor families have demonstrated improved management of their households. 4. The 150 poor households have increased their voice and engaged in the development process through strengthened civil community structures and more responsive local government institutions. 5. The sub-national governments and civil society organisations concerned have increased their capacity and interactions on disaster risk reduction. 6. Existing models of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) are strengthened and consolidated for dissemination and replication in other disaster prone areas in Cambodia. 7. The 5 communities have increased awareness and have strengthened their resilience with respect to disasters and access to water by working in schools.
Master's Degree Program in Urban and Regional Development(2022)
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To enhance participants knowledge and experience in the field of urban and regional development including master planning land use planning real estate and housing development urban redevelopment and new town development
Objectives
To enhance participants knowledge and experience in the field of urban and regional development including master planning land use planning real estate and housing development urban redevelopment and new town development