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Oxfam Novib
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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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Gollobé-Empowerment of women in Torodi

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It is a project that aims at the empowerment and the valorization of women. The project will be implemented by the association of Young Girls Leaders Gollobe of Torodi over a period of 12 months; the town of Torodi and 03 villages of the said town will be targeted in partnership with the local authorities and technical services of Torodi; for a total of 400 direct beneficiaries. Five main activities will be implemented: Advocacy at the communal level to promote access to land for young girls and women Encouraging the schooling of young girls by accompanying them through sensitizations Court hearings to allow 100 women with disabilities to obtain birthcertificates Capacity building for these women to participate in income generating activities Sensitization of women leaders to fight and denounce all forms of violence The project encourages the participation of women in development actions, the empowerment of young girls and women with disabilities. Indeed, women are often marginalized in rural areas. The actions of the girl leaders will give a voice to women who are discriminated against in terms of land management and sharing. The women leaders of the department will be put in contributions to launch an advocacy at the level of the communal authorities.

HO-GROW Campaign 2019-2020

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This project falls under Oxfam Novib's Strategic Partnership with the Dutch government and more specifically the Theory of Change for Right to Food, aiming to achieve impact for women, men and children living in poverty to realize their right to food. This project sits within a wider program that contains more projects that Oxfam Novib is engaged in. These initiatives firstly include the wider GROW campaign of Oxfam, which consists of work in some 30 countries as well as joint regional and global advocacy and campaigning,through the involvement of many Oxfam affiliates, Oxfam country teams, partners and allies. Secondly, they include activities thatare implemented in the context of broader alliances with contribution of multiple partners. This is a continuation of phase 1 of the project that took place 2016-2018. The GROW overarching goal for the period 2019-2020 is that by 2020, more governments, multilateral institutions and companies are implementing policies that promote sustainable food production and consumption, are supporting those most vulnerable to climate change, and are realising communities# rights to land. To this end 3 focus areas of work have been formulated 1) by 2020, more government funding for small scale food production and a greater proportion of private investment in agriculture is focused on helping, not harming, small scale food producers 2) by 2020, communities that are vulnerable to climate changehave greater access to adaption finance and other forms of support, and emissions from key sources are cut and 3) by 2020, women and communities in atleast 10 countries protect and realise their rights to land. This project focuses on four areas that are derivedfrom the overarching GROW objectives. Firstly, we will focus oninvestment in small-scale agriculture and adaptation to climate change. We will influence donors (including the Dutch national government) on ODA expenditure on agriculture and how to invest this money in (female) smallholder farmers to increase the resilience of livelihoods in the context of climate change and achieving food security. Second we will focus on the global food system by influencing and engaging the private sector for equitable, accountable and transparent agricultural value chains which among others includes work on Behind the Brands and IMVO (ICSR) covenants. Thirdly, we will focus on raising awareness and advancing the land rights of indigenous peoples and local communities through Land Rights Now, the Global Call to Action on Indigenousand community land rights, a worldwide alliance initiative of more than 400organizations and communities that aims at doubling the area of land formally recognized as owned or designated for indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020, which includesa strong focus on women#s land rights. Moreover, we will influence international financial institutions and Dutch stakeholders to improve their land policies and we will contribute towards the implementation and monitoring of the Voluntary Guidelines onthe Responsible Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests, and the 2030 Agenda, including through supporting national level advocacy and promoting the participation of women and community representatives in international processes. Finally, acrossall our thematic work we will aim to raise public awareness, and creating public pressure where appropriate together with our partners and allies. Women#s rights are central to the long term outcomes we want to achieve, and prominent in our analysis on landrights, investments in agriculture and climate change. Women are the main group of beneficiaries we are aiming to lift out of poverty as a result of the GROW campaign. Emphasis is given in proper gender analysis; research, data and story gathering that capture the voice of women; campaign and communication material that profiles women#s voice; supporting the participation of women in international fora. To achieve our outcomes we will use different strategies, ranging from monitoring, advocacy, dialogues,campaigning and publicengagement, knowledge generation and sharing, networking, and movement building. We work with and support partners and allies at country (non-Dutch) level, through Oxfam country teams. This includes Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam active in the GROW campaign and having a project in the Strategic Partnership under the Theory of Change Right to Food.

OI Land Rights Policy Lead 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 inpoverty 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 internationalimpact. 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 distribution within value chains, insecure land rights, climate change, gender inequality and 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 GROWcampaign 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 a voice; 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 community Cañamomo Lomaprieta and granted protection for ancestral mining activities. An overview of our results can be found on the interactive map. Oxfam is at the beginning of a new phase of the GROW campaign (2017 # 2020). Throughoutthe 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 driversof inequality in the food system. In this document, we present three innovative work streams running until at least 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. Wewantto 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.

Land Governance in Cambodia

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The NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGOF) works to improve life for poor and vulnerable people in Cambodia. It is a membership organisation that builds NGO cooperation and capacity, supporting NGO networks and other civil society organizations to engage in policydialogue,debate and advocacy. With this project, NGOF is responsible to lead coordinating the consultation process for the draft AgricultureLand Law with a number of local and international NGOs and farmers in Cambodia. The goal of the project is to enhance meaningful participation of civil society organizations and farming communities with qualified inputs in constructive dialogue for the improvement of the draft Agriculture Land Law and especially to collect inputs from stakeholders for improving thedraft law. The project expected that a) practical consultation tools of Agriculture Land Law will be produced and oriented for three consecutively regional consultations. b) Legal analysis recommendation report will be consolidated as one for influence and dialogue with government. c) Participants will have opportunities to share comments, experiences and conditions of actual geographical regions in terms of legal aspects and socio-economic conditions reflecting the draft law; d) Participants will be able to gather good comments and ideas from stakeholders for inclusion as important substances in order for the drafting process to become even better and appropriate within the Cambodian context.

LRN Campaign at Terra Madre Festival '18

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Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) will focus its involvement in the Land Rights Now Campaign on connecting indigenous youth to #urban#youth. The 4-day festival Terra Madre in Turin (20 to 24 September 2018) will be the opportunity for SFYN to join the Land Rights Now (LRN) campaign. They will host different events and collaborate in conferences that support the aim of the LRN campaign on different levels: awareness, connecting, engagement and mobilization. In order to raise awareness SFYN intends to organize conferences with indigenous youth speakers including among others, the following topics: land grabbing; Indigenous Peoples' food systems and Climate Change; Indigenous chefs and inspiring youth; Indigenous youth and innovation. SFYN will also host events on decolonization and shaping society with agriculture (with particular focus on Mexican indigenous communities). Face-to-face meetings will be organized between local SFYN groups in Asia, Latin America and Africa with indigenous youth from these continents; as well as a meeting between indigenous youth and SFYN to integrate with each other; speed-dates between youth: immigrants, indigenous, urban. Finally, at the end of Terra Madre event all representatives of the indigenous youth will be paired with an SFYN buddy through the #Go home with a buddy# initiative in order for them to be able to get in touch with each other when they are back home. In order to increase engagementseveral events involving indigenous communities and their own products will be organized. The latter would give an opportunity for everyone to cook together and share the story of their ingredients while at the same time teaching each other local cooking skills. During Terra Madre, SFYN will also focus on connecting and integrating the indigenous youth to the SFYN network. As a result, next year (2019), hopefully they can be involved in future mobilizations and campaigns. Finally, the aim is also to share the real storiesof indigenous youth all over the world, via the #language of food# by showing short videos and portrait series of indigenous youth and their stories around food. All the events taking place during Terra Madre will be recorded for this purpose.