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 181 - 185 of 328Boititap Korenyo: The Wealth of Our Land
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This collaboration enables the Ogiek people in Kenya's Mount Elgon to combine their immense knowledge and skills in managing their customary land with new community-based Geographic Information Science (GIS) technologies. The project employs a revolutionary tech-based solution called MAPEO, which enables them to collect and leverage data describing land and resource use in order to defend andadvance their land rights. The project aims to: # Build the Ogiek#s capacity to map and monitor their ancestral lands. # Reduce the Ogiek#s marginalisation through increasing their ability to advocate for themselves in local and national platforms with government and other officials. # Secure greater land tenure for the Ogiek through the existing legal mechanisms in Kenya, reduce territorialconflict with neighbouring communities, and increase internal fluency on territory issues for indigenous people. The project is implemented by a consortium lead by the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project (CIPDP), as a representative organisation of the Ogiek people of Mount Elgon. CIPDP has been working on land rights issues for a number of years, and since 2010 with Forest Peoples Programme on issues including capacity development for policy influencing and strategic institutional support; GIS training; responsible finance; and networking with neighbouring communities. Digital Democracy is a long term partner of FPP, having collaborated with them in Latin America providing technical support and local partner training in mapping and land defense technologies in theAmazon.
Indigenous Women and mining impact- CIPO
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Indigenous people are group of people living in the territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia, whose have particular ethnic, social culture economic unity and practice their traditional lifestyles according to custom. Their agriculture and plantation on the plots of land they have occupied are done according to collectively customary usage of the land. In Cambodia, there are diverse of indigenous people such as the Bunong, Kuoy, Tumpong, Chary, Kroeng, Brao, Kavat. Totally of 24 groups. The indigenous people practices different culture tradition custom belief and languages according to their particular group. In Cambodia there are many organization and institutions that work on indigenous people in capacity building, various knowledge about the rights to freedom of expression, political rights, the rights access to social protection. Although many relevant organization and institutions paid attention on indigenouswomen but their problem have not been responded yet. Seeing this, minority women from different indigenous group have common idea to establish the indigenous women network to voice their issues and concems and, hold the government and private sector to account and protect. The benefit of their communities. On 02 September 2018 women’ group organized a consultation workshop on the establishment of the first women’s network in Cambodia, coordinated by the Cambodia Indigenous People Alliance (CIPA), Cambodia Indigenous People Organization (CIPO) Highlander Association (HA). Following its inception, the women’s group received supported from International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF) through the Cambodia Indigenous People’ financial system to carry out its activity starting in April 2019. In 2020 the women’s group have prepared its action plan according to the old plan from last year, discussed with the members who do not yet have the budget to support and implement out the activity. For the women’s team, there are many issues and needs that must be push and addressed indigenous communities, such as land rights issues decimation issue, economic, education, mining issue andclimate change issue. The project was developed by seeing the impact of mining investment in Mondulkiri and its potential impacts on community’s livelihood, heath, and environment and to empower IP women to take control and protect their resources and, ensure social and, environmental safeguarding. In addition, the women would like to have frequent training or meeting with communities livingaround mining investment area to strengthen their capacity to recognize their rights to participate in the early stages of researches and environmental assessment. Community awareness on the impact prevention methods are important to seek intervention from the company and the ministry of the mines and energy to take strict action against the activities of its workers who violate the national law. The strengthening IP women network in the mining-affected area of communities, forests communities, and indigenous collective communities is crucial to voice their concems and hold the government and company accountable. Recently, the Cambodian government through the ministry of Mine and Energy has provided mining investment license to private companies to boost the Cambodian economy as a senior official of the Ministry of Mines and Energy has recently confirmed about the first discovery of an international-scale gold mine in Mondulkiri Province. Speaking at a press conference on the morning of April 21, 2020, Mr. Yos Monirath, Director General of the General Department of Mines of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, stated: A gold mine is located in Okhvav, Kev Seima district,Mondulkiri province. In July 2018, the government decided to grant a mining license to an Australian company called Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) for a 15-year exploration area of 11.5 square kilometers in O'Khvav, Keo Seima district, Mondulkiri province. According to Emerald Resources, Western Australia has some of policies to help the community such as: 1. Establishing and contribute to afund for community development for the benefit of the community in the project area. 2. Seek the support of major suppliers and contractor to also contribute to the fund 3. Fund governed by a committee of local senior stakeholder including company representative of communities and NGOs organization. 4. Applications from local community will be assessed in accordance with community needs. 5. School Nursery initiative as a way for students to raise funds for their school, to increase environmental awareness in young people and provide trees for future rehabilitation activities. 6. An Industry Partner supporting the Lion Water Sanitation Initiative in Obenlieu Commune, installing latrines and water filters in homes. Objectives (intermediate impact) Strengthened the rights and collective voice of indigenous women to influence and prevent from the potential impact of mining investment.
CO-506695
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Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack ofintegrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. Oxfam in Cambodia has just become an implementing partner of ACCESS project (Advancing CSOs# Capacity to Enhance Sustainability Solutions) which has been funded by EU through WWF. The ACCESS project aims to ensure that marginalized forest communities affected by land conflicts and the depletion of the natural resourceswhich they depend upon are able to take action and to raise their voice to recover their rights and legally enforce the protection of their forest, and hold the Government and private companies accountable for their actions. The proposed Action aims at achieving a gender equity-based secured and sustainable community-based forest and natural resources governance in Mondulkiri Province with linkages and upscaling to the national level. The project will support the empowerment of forest-dependent communities in Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary (PPWS) and Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS) covering 40% of the land area of Mondulkiri Province, the least populated, most forested, and among the richest provinces in natural resources (soil, timber, mineral) in Cambodia. The role of Oxfam in Cambodia in the ACCESS project focuses on assess the capacity of the NRM NGO network in Mondulkiri province, capacitate and coachingthe NRM NGO network and enable the NRM NGO network to function themselves.
HO-Management global priv. sector partne
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Oxfam's vision is to establish multi-functional landscapes in which smallholders, their communities (including women and indigenouspeoples), local authorities, and plantation companies have applied participatory land use planning. Oxfam#s work on the FAIR Company Community Partnerships started in 2014. FAIR represents 4 key principles: Freedom of Choice, Accountability, Improvement and sharing of benefits, Respect for Rights and the environment. The long-term objective of FAIR Partnerships implementation is to demonstrate a holistic landscape level approach in Indonesia in support of community/smallholder-inclusive growth in the palm oil sector. In order to go from the concept of FAIR Company Community Partnerships to vision five consecutive steps havebeen defined: 1. Research; 2. Scoping; 3. Co-creation and preparation; 4. Demonstration projects; and 5. Up-scaling and mainstreaming. This project covers thefirst year of the 4th step: an inception phase which concludes the co-creation and further prepares local level project implementation. Purpose of the proposed 9-month inception phase is to establish/meet sufficiently detailed preconditions for the FAIR Partnership demonstration project participants. Project locations are: 2 out of 3 short-listed demonstration project locations: Pelalawan in Riau, Tanjung Jabung Barat in Jambi, and Sekadau in West Kalimantan. The Thematic Unit Land, Water and Pro Poor Value Chains in theHague, the Netherlands, is responsible for the overall contract management of this project. The unit provides is responsible for: the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Knowledge and Innovation Management; liaisoning with investors; relevant platforms and knowledge institutions; coaching and advice to the Country Office in Indonesia on all activities
OGB Myanmar Right to Food 2019-2020
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This project falls under the thematic area Right to Food and follows on the project A-04844 from 2016-2018. Through our work on Right to Food Oxfam Novib and SOMO aim to achieve that more small-scale food producers and agricultural workers, particularly women andtheir communities, benefit from local to global publi cand private sector policies that protect and promote their prosperity and resilience. Since 2016 the context has changed for which we have adjusted the project intervention. The original plan was designed inan optimistic period on the eve of the transfer to the civilian elected government, when the progressive National Land Use Policy was being finalised and there was an expectation of a progressive reform process. While solidarity within civil society is growing and there has been some limited progress on policies, steps toward land governance reform have been limited and space for communities and civil society to influence has shrunk. Following the Rohingya refugee crisis fewer responsible investors are coming to Myanmar, resulting in a growing dominance of less accountable investors. As a result, the project focuses more on equipping local communitiesand civil society organizations with tools to address these private actors. Moreover, in face of the challenging context there is agreater need to continue building solidarity among civil society and movements to facilitate more effective national and especiallythe sub national lobby and advocacy. This is crucial with 3 controversial land law amendment processes underway for the period 2019-2020. The long term objective remains the same that people realize their right to food sovereignty and they influence decision-making that positively impacts their land and natural resources rights in line with international environmental and social standards Toachieve this long-term outcome in Myanmar Oxfam works together with Metta and Paung Ku. Metta will extend project implementation toEastern Shan State to support capacity development of local CSOs have invited Metta to initiate awareness-raising on land and natural resource rights at community level. Paung Ku is an additional partner in the project that focus on developing civil society and alliance capacity for strategic influencing at union level and engagement with independent media.