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 46 - 50 of 328HO-Land Program Development Africa
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1. The Pan Africa Programme office will finalise development of a gendered tool on large scale land based investment in Africa witha focus on agriculture. This initiative covers 5 countries including Kenya and seek to profile the role of women and communities asstakeholders in large scale land based investment in agriculture in line with AU Guiding Principle on LSLBI adopted in 2014. The process of developing this tool is currently mid-way with completion set for end of March 2016. Euro. 7,000 is requested to finalise consultants fees and meet costs associated with community consultation meetings in Kenya. Completion of this tool will see Oxfam make significant contribution in advancing women's land rights in Africa by profiling best practices around agriculture investments in the bid to secure women and community land in various platforms. 2. It is proposed that the Oxfam Global Land Programme and the Pan Africa Programme will jointly organise a Pan-African Land Programme Meeting, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 4-8, 2016, convening 20-25 participants from across the continent. The Pan Africa programme will organise local logistics, and jointly plan the meeting content and develop the agenda.
Oxfam América Perú
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We supported the creation and the development of communication and media material (i.e. stories, video, photos#) for a global campaign spike on indigenous and community land rights, to raise #global awareness# on the subject. This action contributed to the Land Rights Now campaign, which is a worldwide initiative of more than 600 organizations and communities that aim at doubling the area ofland formally recognized as owned or controlled by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Oxfam plays a major role in shaping and driving the campaign. The Land Rights Now campaign is a bottom-up campaign and is primary objective is to support ongoing nationalcampaigns in the area of Indigenous and community land rights. The secondary objective is to promote global awareness on this issue, so as to enable changes at national level. In 2016, Oxfam will focus on 4-6 countries to highlight either i) specific cases of land grabbing or injustice around indigenous and community land rights or ii) symbolic cases #including positive stories # that can describe a larger systemic situation, that needs to be addressed. In this context we issued an internal call for expression of interest to submit cases that may support #global# awareness raising. A case submitted byOxfam in Peru has been identified as a suitable case, according to pre-established criteria. This grant supports the development of material for public campaigning in Peru on this case.
Country Office 506708 Oxfam Novib Uganda
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The project is intended to build the capacity of women leaders to engage, influence and lobby for gender responsive programmes and interventions in their respective location. The project is also intended to connect spaces between local leaders and national leaders and build capacity of women leaders to influence at local level (Subcounty and district) and also gain capacity to feed into national debates through the forum (Uganda women#s Parliamentary forum) that exists at national level. The ordinary women and girls willbe engaged by women leaders through dialogues on VAW and Land to build a critical mass and generate credible messages for advocacy and engagement with traditional leaders and legal duty bearers at all levels. The women leaders from grassroots women organisationswill be given capacity to work in hand with political leaders and gain spaces to participate in Local government planning meetingsas provided for the by Local government planning guidelines of 1997 Although the guidelines provides for representation of civil society organisations in all planning and budgeting processes, the reality on ground is that the space can be gained through having contact with key political leaders part of that process. The women leaders #political and CSOs will identity groups of ordinary rural women that have suffered VAW and Land related Violence in their respective location and mentor them to engage at the different Subcounty, district, regional and national meetings and voice their concerns to the duty bearers. The project will seek to hold the leaders (traditional and government) to account and make decisions to take action on issues raised by women. The decisions will include following up with district council to prioritise project proposalscomponents into the Local government plans. The work at national level will be informed by grassroots experiences and key stakeholders will be involved ensure that VAW Currently the ministry of Gender doesn#t have government funds for VAW prevention, andits assumed that funds for VAWQ response are supposed to go to Ministry of health, Justice law and order, these ministries are also underfunded. and Women#s land rights are given space in national level debates by UWOPA and the relevant ministries this in turn will allow for proper budget allocations to the respective programmes. Recently,the land policy was approved by the government and the Law on Domestic violence was passed in 2010. Oxfam and other two DV Act coalition members supported the translation of the Ct into 8 Local languages including languages spoken in Karamoja and Acholi. The project is intended to expedite the implementation of the law and the Land policy through active engagement of the key stakeholders who are women.
Ford Land 3.0
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The objective of this grant was to: i) establish and promote a new compelling narrative worldwide on the issue of Indigenous and community land rights; ii) connect struggles, victories and best practices on the topic of Indigenous and community land rights to amplify their voice; and iii) targeted advocacy and lobby toward international institutions. Through this grant we supported an Oxfam campaign spike on indigenous and community land rights, produced the report #Custodians of the land, Defenders of our future# in 4 languages, provided policy and campaign tools and opportunities in 6 countries, and reached more than 7M people through social media. In addition, we led a global mobilization around the Earth Day 2017, including by providing campaign and policy material to all participants of the Land Rights Now campaign, whilst brokering new alliances. The mobilization resulted in 42 events across 30 countries, more than 25k signatures, social media outreach of 5M. Finally, we also provided policy leadership to the Global Call to Action onIndigenous and Community Land Rights so as to create adequate momentum and pressure on this issue. We also worked on a specific influencing strategy with allies to consolidate the work on land rights indicators in the SDGs, and influencing the High Level Political Forum and the related National Review process, so as to support an enabling international environment.
AFPPD Scoping Study for JRAS
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The main purpose of the paper is to inform the development of an advocacy strategy focusing on engagement with Parliamentarians that will contribute to policy influencing on food, population and climate justice issues in five select countries of South Asia. The planned meeting will be the preparatory meeting to set up the Forum which aims to contribute to the outcome of building movements toshare good policies and practices at South Asia level resulting in improved national level policy processes related to climate change and legislation of the Right to Food (linking land rights and water). One way to achieve this is through engaging with formal power structures by forming and scaling up alliances with Members of Parliament (Parliamentarians) from country up to regional level. ARegional Forum of Parliamentarians in South Asia will be set up later on to promote joint lobby and advocacy with key Members of Parliament (MPs) from different SA countries and linkage to civil society. -- The Study is a preparation for the Parliamentarian Forum, which would help people affected by food insecurity, climate change and land grabs in South Asia to have a say - through the improved relations between the NGOs, CSOs representing their rights and the Parliamentarians - in the preparation and implementation of new national laws related to different areas of the GROW campaign - Experiences shared from each country at a regional level will support new ways of reaching government and policy makers to achieve GROW objectives in the other countries