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 261 - 265 of 328AIPP - Indigenous & Comm. Land Rights
General
The Global Call to Action (GCA) is an initiative co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam that aims to catalyze greater global actioThe Global Call to Action (GCA) is an initiative co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam that aims to catalyze greater global action around community land rights through strengthening, growing and connecting existing local and national networks and organizations, and up-scalelocal-to-global. The GCA#s goal is #to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020#. In late 2014, Oxfam has received a grant from ILC to host the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager. This grant is due to expire in January 2016, when the GCA will be launched officially through a Campaign Report. The first year of implementation is considered of strategic importance to boost the initiative and consolidate the platform, after the launch of the Campaign Report. This grant would allow the recruitment of a GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager for an additional year, and provide her/him withsome resources to support the implementation of the 2016 Campaign Strategy by the three Co-Conveners, and Participants in the GCA. Terms of reference of the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager will be defined in consultation with the three Co-conveners in the first month of implementation of the grant. The grant will also allow the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager to support a suitable partner organization, at the regional level to carry out campaign activities in the region. The partner organization could ideally bean ILC Member with a strong track record on indigenous and community land rights, and linkages with Oxfam#s work, so as to ensure collaboration among the three entities, but decision will be made in due course. n around community land rights through strengthening, growing and connecting existing local and national networks and organizations, and up-scale local-to-global. The GCA#s goal is #todouble the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020#. In late 2014, Oxfamhas received a grant from ILC to host the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager. This grant is due to expire in January 2016, when the GCA will be launched officially through a Campaign Report. The first year of implementation is considered of strategic importanceto boost the initiative and consolidate the platform, after the launch of the Campaign Report. This grant would allow the recruitment of a GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager for an additional year, and provide her/him with some resources to support the implementation of the 2016 Campaign Strategy by the three Co-Conveners, and Participants in the GCA. Terms of reference of the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager will be defined in consultation with the three Co-conveners in the first month of implementation of the grant. The grant will also allow the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager to support a suitable partner organization, at the regional level to carry out campaign activities in the region. The partner organization could ideally be an ILC Member with a strong track record on indigenous and community land rights, and linkages with Oxfam#s work, so as to ensure collaboration among the three entities, but decision will be made in due course. The Global Call to Action (GCA) is an initiative co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam that aims to catalyze greater global action around community land rights through strengthening, growing and connecting existing local and national networks and organizations, and up-scale local-to-global. The GCA#s goal is #to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020#. In late 2014, Oxfam has received a grant from ILC to host the GCAFacilitator and Campaign Manager. This grant is due to expire in January 2016, when the GCA will be launched officially through a Campaign Report. The first year of implementation is considered of strategic importance to boost the initiative and consolidate the platform, after the launch of the Campaign Report. This grant would allow the recruitment of a GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager for an additional year, and provide her/him with some resources to support the implementation of the2016 Campaign Strategy by the three Co-Conveners, and Participants in the GCA. Terms of reference of the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager will be defined in consultation with the three Co-conveners in the first month of implementation of the grant. The grant will also allow the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager to support a suitable partner organization, at the regional level to carry out campaign activities in the region. The partner organization could ideally be an ILC Member with a strong track record on indigenous and community land rights, andlinkages with Oxfam#s work, so as to ensure collaboration among the three entities, but decision will be made in due course.
ILC - GCA ONL Implementing
General
The Global Call to Action (GCA) is an initiative co-convened by ILC, RRI and Oxfam that aims to catalyze greater global action around community land rights through strengthening, growing and connecting existing local and national networks and organizations, and up-scale local-to-global. The GCA#s goal is #to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020#. In late 2014, Oxfam has received a grant from ILC to host the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager. This grant is due to expire in January 2016, when the GCA will be launched officially through a Campaign Report. The first year of implementation is considered of strategic importance to boost the initiative and consolidate the platform, after the launch of the Campaign Report. This grant would allow the recruitment of a GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager for an additional year, and provide her/him with some resources to support the implementation of the 2016 Campaign Strategy by the three Co-Conveners, and Participants in the GCA. Terms of reference of the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager will be defined in consultation with the three Co-conveners inthe first month of implementation of the grant. The grant will also allow the GCA Facilitator and Campaign Manager to support a suitable partner organization, at the regional level to carry out campaign activities in the region. The partner organization could ideally be an ILC Member with a strong track record on indigenous and community land rights, and linkages with Oxfam#s work, so as to ensure collaboration among the three entities, but decision will be made in due course.
Hill development and solidarity
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ADISCO (Appui au Développement Intégral et à la Solidarité sur les Collines) is a local NGO responsible for the implementation of PABAB's Component 2 'Increase of agricultural productivity, resilience, producers' organizations and access to markets' in the province of Bubanza. The following sub-components are part of this responsibility : (1) strengthening of technical capacities of farmers for integrated land management in the local communities, (2) Farmers' organisation and structuration into associations and farmers' cooperatives and their management, (3) Information/communication, training and agricultural lobby activities, (4) Creating Loan and Saving groups, in liaison with MFIs, and (5) Activities to improve conservation of agricultural produce and marketing of surplus produce.
Counterpart 502583 South Sudan Law Socie
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The 3-year project on protecting property rights in transition South Sudan was implemented by South Sudan Law Society from November2012 # October 2015. The evaluation aims to establish the extent to which the project has achieved the intended objectives. It is intended principally for learning and accountability purposes. The evaluation exercise will generate relevant findings, lessons learned and recommendations which will be shared with key stakeholders of the project and used by the implementing agencies to guide and inform future similar projects and programs in South Sudan. The evaluation will also assess the performance of the project against the pre-established indicators as per the projects log frame including the project#s relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, impact, timeliness of implementation, and its strengths and weaknesses. The report will be shared with Oxfam Novib and other interested actors supporting land rights n South Sudan.
Land Governance in Vietnam
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Overall objective: To create equal opportunities for vulnerable people to access to natural resources and to enhance land governance at levels in term of effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness, accountability and transparency. Component 1: Legal aid to people who lose land or in land disputes Objective: To fight against social injustice through provision of legal information and a legal aid for limited resource farmers and disadvantageous communities dealing with protecting their land use rights andbenefits. Output 1: People who lose their land or in land disputes access to legal support services. Output 2: Grass-roots staffs are capable of providing legal aids for local people. Component 2: Policy advocacy Objective: To enable the policy makershear the voice and perspectives of vulnerable people (farmers, poor and ethnic people) and experts relating to agriculture and forestry land use and management to develop better policies. Output 1: Researches# results on cases of land loss and compensation are disseminated to policy makers and publicize to the public. Output 2: Policy makers take vulnerable groups# opinions and wishes into account in the policy making process. Target Area and Beneficiaries The Land Governance Program (LGP) now seekstointegrate interventions at grass roots levels (village,commune, district and province) and to provide evidence for national level advocacy work. The LGP will focus on beneficiaries who are farmers and ethnic minority people (vulnerable groups) and targetat agriculture land. For the first objective, two provinces are selected as the program#s target areas. The program will work in two poor communes in one district per each province where local people depend much on agricultural production and/ or bothagricultural and forestry land. Target communes will be areas that the percentage of farmers must account for at least 70% of the total population. It is better if have agriculture land were or will be recovered by the government in these communes because people here are direct affected land users. Through the LGP, land users will have more opportunities to access to legal information and receive legal advices and assistance of land problems. Therefore, they would havemore power and voice in defend their legitimate land use rights from the land acquisition, also improve their livelihoods and diversify their livelihood options. Local government staff and mass organization members are also direct beneficiaries of the program. They will receive training courses and attend workshops to enhance their capacities, knowledge and skills of legal aid and land administration. For the second objective, Oxfam will be a bridge to connect different perspectives of land issues from grass roots levels to policy makers through researches so that both direct and indirect beneficiaries are research institutes, universities, local authorities and policy-makers who take part in research activities and policy dialogues. Target areas for researches selected will be provinces withgood or bad practices of the land acquisition process and compensation (such as Nam Dinh, Da Dang, Bac Giang provinces/cities, etc.) in order to find out good recommendations for the policy-makers.