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 86 - 90 of 328Oxfam Timor-Leste Loss and Damage
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This project will conduct research into loss and damage on community land as a result of climatic disasters, which is an under researched area in Timor-Leste. Through conducting focus groups in three Municipalities with local land experts, interviews with climatechange impacted community members and local Government, the research will serve as a catalyst for future projects to lobby the Timor-Leste Government to develop mechanisms to support community members impacted by climatic disasters on community land, as well as support influencing at COP27. This project contributes to the Oxfam International outcome of: “Civil society in at least one country are mobilized to advocate for secure land rights of local communities using improved knowledge of the interrelations between land inequality, climate change and food security”. Timor-Leste is particularly vulnerable to climate-related hazards including floods, drought, cyclones, and earthquakes, with forecasts suggesting these are likely to increase in severity and frequency due to climate change. Flooding between the 29th of March and the 4th of April in 2021 resulted in an estimated US$307.7 million in loss and damage, affecting over 31,000 households, as well as damage to community land that was being depended on by local communities for farming andlivelihoods (Source: Household and Building Damage Assessment of Floods in Timor-Leste”, UNDP, Timor-Leste, 30 November 2021). Thisevent followed flooding in 2020 that impacted 9,131 individuals and drought in 2016 that impacted 120,000 individuals (source: Timor-Leste Country Profile, Climate Change Knowledge Portal, World Bank Group). Many communities depend on community land for agriculture to sustain their livelihoods, but there is currently no Government mechanism in Timor-Leste that provides support in response to loss and damage for impacted communities as a result of climatic disasters, and whilst land use surveys have been conducted in the past, the extent of the damage from the floods in 2021 has still not been fully assessed. This project will conduct research in threeMunicipalities in Timor-Leste including Dili (community land), Covalima (community land) and Lautem (national park land) which havebeen chosen as representing the West, Central and Eastern regions. A consultant will be recruited to identify community members with knowledge on community land use and loss and damage in each Municipality, to participate in focus group discussions to identify community land use changes between January 2018 and December 2021. In order to raise awareness of loss and damage as a result of climate change on community land and its implications on community members, interviews will also be conducted with affected community members to develop case studies. The consultant will also conduct interviews with local government stakeholders in each Municipality (Minister of Justice, Land and Property, Civil Protection, Ministry of Agriculture) to assess existing laws related to the community land (including land titles) early warning systems employed as well as existing policies related to loss and damage.
XG OI SIDA II - Activity Budget 2022-23
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This OPA is part of the Sida2GROW project and will contribute to campaign and advocacy objectives of Oxfam, that include food systems, land rights and climate justice. The OPA will contribute to achieving Oxfam Global Strategic Framework goals (a) Just Economies and (b) Climate Justice. Activities mentioned in this OPA are consistent and will deliver against the Sida2GROW 2022 Operational Plan, and the agreed 2022 Global Activity Budget. Activities contributes to Pathway 1 andPathway 3. More specifically: •Pathway 1: Smallholder farmers and workers continue to face systemic discrimination and abuse in food value chains, despite their enormous paid and unpaid contributions. In 2022 the BtBP Campaign will focus on key areas of work that will help us wrap up the global public campaigning focus, help us hold our campaign targets accountable to their commitments made in the course of the campaign and lay the ground work and build to the next important campaign for equality in the globalfood system.•Pathway 3: Our climate work will continue to advocate for bold climate action that responds to the needs and realitiesof communities that are most vulnerable to climate change, with advocacy work strengthened by a renewed focus in 2022 on public engagement and public mobilisation. The overall goal for the BTBP campaign this year, which is to:1.Bring the public campaigning phase of Behind the Barcodes/Price to a close, by showcasing the overall work of the campaign and sharing with the publics we have mobilised over the years what change their contributions have made. This will be through case studies and summarising the wins of the campaign, to show that public campaigning works and has a really big impact. This moment will also be used to reveal to supermarkets where they have moved on Oxfam's scorecard and show them the gaps that still exist and where they need to keep making changes. It will be the start of the public monitoring of their commitments they have made through the campaign. Therefore, this is the time we shift into the implementation phase of the campaign.2.Forward planning, through research, reflection and planning what is next in food system campaigning work. Given the contexts we are facing with pandemics, unrest and the climate crisis continuing, we will work with allies to establish the next meaningful intervention we canmake together, to address the inequality in the food system.
Oxfam Colombia
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This project involves a Country Case Study on Land Inequality, Climate Change and Food Security Nexus. The objective of this research is to gather evidence for a case study that will explore the inter-linkages between land inequality, climate change andfood security. The case study aims to provide an analysis to CSOs and communities, with a gender approach, on how land inequality manifestsin their country and how it is linked to and impacted by climate change and food security. It will provide the evidence base for advocacy with the national government and other stakeholders. It will feed into our ongoing work around land inequality and land and climate nexus. Land inequality is a key issue of Oxfam and we have been engaged in the land inequality initiative led by the International Land Coalition (ILC). In 2019, the ILC commenced the first phase of the land inequality initiative which focused on collective research that culminated in the launch of a flagship report Uneven Ground which is co-branded with Oxfam. The second phaseof this initiative intends to support advocacy and campaigning efforts at national and international level. It is expected thatthis research will contribute to the body of evidence available within the land inequality initiative for global level work onthe issue. It is also expected that the research solidifies land inequality as a core issue for Oxfam and link it with climate change which is one of the key priorities of Oxfam. Through the Tightening the Netreport, we explored how the net zero targets of governments and companies which are heavily reliant on using vast extents of lands in low-income countries to capture carbon emissions, would lead to an explosion in the demand for land, increasing land inequality and hunger. This research is expected to provide evidence on how this takes place on the ground. This project will contribute to Sida2GROW Pathway 3 work on land rights, and specificallyto towards the intermediary outcome 3.2 greater globalaccountability to uphold international benchmarks on land rights is built. This will be done through a research that will explore the inter-linkages between land inequality, climate change and food security, agreater understanding of which will enable civilsociety organisations to advocate with their national governments for required legal and policy change and accountability.
CED - Land Rights Now support
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We are witnessing an increased number of cases of Environmental Defenders rights# violations in Cameroon and DRC. The existing cases are very often located in rural areas, with very little publicity in the cities. The public opinion, key decision-makers are oftennot informed of those cases of rights# violations. The media, judges, public administrations, members of the Parliament and human rights commission are unaware of the magnitude of these violations and there is no collective action to address theprotection of environmental defenders. In addition to the work being done by the platforms focusing on Commitment-Based Initiatives (CBI) 10, NES-DRC and NES Cameroon plan to inform national authorities of the extent of this problem, and to attract publicattention. Mobilizing decision-makers on this issue is the first step towards political commitment. The project aims at raising awareness of civil society organizations, decision-makers, the media, parliamentarians, the Human Rights Commission and relevant civil servants on the nature and extend of the violations of environmental rights defenders, and to give a public space to environmental defenders to make their casein the public. In the context of the Land Rights Now Global Mobilisation against Criminalisation of Land Rights Defenders the project will: # Document per country at least one case of criminalization of land rights defenders based on the key criteria for the global public campaign (DRC and Cameroon) # Put in place a mechanism to identify, discuss and address cases of violations of land and environmental rights (through legal means, paralegal solutions and mediation) with the media, the judiciary, members of the Parliament, members of the Human Rights Commission, and relevant civil servants (Cameroon) # Initiate discussions with government authorities(DRC) # Organize a series of public events for the mobilization day of the Land Rights Now campaign (DRC and Cameroon)
CED - Land Rights Now support
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We are witnessing an increased number of cases of Environmental Defenders rights# violations in Cameroon and DRC. The existing cases are very often located in rural areas, with very little publicity in the cities. The public opinion, key decision-makers are oftennot informed of those cases of rights# violations. The media, judges, public administrations, members of the Parliament and human rights commission are unaware of the magnitude of these violations and there is no collective action to address theprotection of environmental defenders. In addition to the work being done by the platforms focusing on Commitment-Based Initiatives (CBI) 10, NES-DRC and NES Cameroon plan to inform national authorities of the extent of this problem, and to attract publicattention. Mobilizing decision-makers on this issue is the first step towards political commitment. The project aims at raising awareness of civil society organizations, decision-makers, the media, parliamentarians, the Human Rights Commission and relevant civil servants on the nature and extend of the violations of environmental rights defenders, and to give a public space to environmental defenders to make their casein the public. In the context of the Land Rights Now Global Mobilisation against Criminalisation of Land Rights Defenders the project will: # Document per country at least one case of criminalization of land rights defenders based on the key criteria for the global public campaign (DRC and Cameroon) # Put in place a mechanism to identify, discuss and address cases of violations of land and environmental rights (through legal means, paralegal solutions and mediation) with the media, the judiciary, members of the Parliament, members of the Human Rights Commission, and relevant civil servants (Cameroon) # Initiate discussions with government authorities(DRC) # Organize a series of public events for the mobilization day of the Land Rights Now campaign (DRC and Cameroon)