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 111 - 115 of 328Country Office 506708 Oxfam Novib Uganda
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OIE Unrestricted commitment to Uganda OCS in the period from 1 April 2015 to 31st March 2016 in the areas of women land rights, Humanitarian, digital communications initiatives, value chain development,
LRN Campaign - AIPP
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The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact is one of the founders of the Land Rights Now campaign (www.landrightsnow.org) and has actively participated in the campaign since its inception. Through this project AIPP aims at supporting mobilizations in Thailand and Cambodia through its members, and document actions so that they can feed the wider global campaign and mobilize solidarity around the issue of Indigenous rights to ancestral territories and food, in line with the narrative and asks of the Land Rights Now global mobilization on Indigenous and community land rights and food. The objectives are the following: raise awareness on the link between indigenousland rights and food sovereignty; support national influencing strategies to secure Indigenous land rights. Food sovereignty for indigenous peoples is viewed as having access to land and local food without having to purchase them and where traditional knowledge of farming or wild harvesting are maintained and practiced without fear of reprisals. Furthermore, access to land play an important role in fighting hunger and malnutrition and preventing non-communicable diseases amongst indigenous communities. Often indigenous foods are undervalued and classified as ''food of the poor'' of ''of the past.# Food systems and the nutrition situation of indigenous people are often under pressure due to inaccessibility to their lands and to practice their traditional livelihood and general discrimination to indigenous culture. With this, the proposed project activities for this event are to provide an opportunity to highlight the relation of protection and promotion of indigenous peoples land rights and securing food sovereignty, which is further related to their health and livelihood situation.
EC VN Budget Transparency
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Specific objective: #Empowered CSOs, CBOs and communities in Hoa Binh and Quang Tri provinces are able to effectively influence thepublic budget process of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) with wider national impacts on relevant laws and decrees#. 4 results: R1- Poor people, ethnic minorities and women at local level have increased awareness of the budget process and are able to exert influence on this process of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) R2- The budget transparency coalition is expanded to include multiple stakeholders and strengthened to promote and advocate for budget transparency, accountability and participation at local and national levels, including in relevant laws and decrees at national level R3- Targeted People#s Councils from commune to provincial levels are more effective in the oversight of the budget process, promoting budget transparency, accountability and people#s participation R4- Targeted People#s Committees from commune to provincial levels open spaces for civil society#s meaningful engagement in public budget formulation and budget monitoring of poverty reduction and development programmes (including on health issues) ACDC has experience working for the rights of marginalised groups (including the rural poor, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities), and has specifically focused on influencing policies, and conducting participatory research and community consultations (responsible for developing provincial level consultations for the draft revised Budget Law in 2014 and Land Law in 2013). As an organisation well established in Hoa Binh Province, and with deep understanding of issues facing marginalised communities, ACDC will be responsible for the coordination of activities in Hoa Binh. As a member of the coalition, ACDC also coordinates national level work, providing legal expertise for policy advocacy and inclusive budgets.
FPP - Land Rights Now
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Amplifying the Global Call to Action on Community and Indigenous Land Rights # These activities lead by Forest Peoples Program (FPP) and their partners in three countries contribute to amplifying the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community land rights by supporting local efforts to secure their lands, gaining support for them and creating momentum linking local and global to help them achieve their aims while also engaging governments, national human rights institutions and supporting local efforts at land and resource governance and management. FPP will offer communications support to allied organizations, and use social media and website to showcase the strongest outputs from these activities through www.landrightsnow.org and other media.
Empowerment and raising voice of ethnic
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In June 2014, a three-day conference to discuss sustainable development in the remote Northern mountainous regions of Vietnam was organized by the World Bank and Thai Nguyen University. The conference, Sustainable Development and Ethnic Minority Poverty Reductionin Mountainous Regions , aimed to discuss opportunities for sustainable poverty reduction in the region drawing from lessons of successful experiences in Vietnam and elsewhere. Participants include government officials at both central and provincial levels, researchers, business people, development partners and practitioners including from other countries. The EMWG thematic discussion paper provided deep analysis of critical issues in achieving sustainable development of ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Six important topics were concisely presented as listed below: - A lack of representation and participation of ethnic minority in policy formation - A fragmented policy framework and lack of coordination - Discrimination and Stigma - Education - Livelihoods - Land rights. The sharing welcomed more than 30 participants from development organizations and research institutions. Representatives of Caritas Switzerland and Helvetas presented about their projects in Ha Giang, Cao Bang and Hoa Binh provinces. They shared their good practices in promoting local participation in socio-economic development activities in their communities. The integration of local people into agricultural activities and public administrative management would ensure a sustainable development in ethnic minority areas.