The year 2025 has been marked by deepening aid cuts by major donors. This briefing note examines the implications of these cuts on Africa’s development, highlighting long-standing failures in official development assistance (ODA) to reduce poverty, inequality, and climate vulnerability. It analyses ODA trends across sectors, gaps in support to Least Developed Countries and women’s […] The post Changing Face of Aid in Africa: Outlook, failures, and reform potential appeared first on Oxfa...| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Group Cash Transfer (GCT) is an approach that provides cash in the form of cash transfers to unregistered, emerging or self-mobilizing community groups enabling them to design and implement projects that address the urgent needs and longer-term recovery of crisis-affected populations. In October 2023, Oxfam and NEEDS Nepal piloted four GCT initiatives in the southwestern […] The post Launching Group Cash Transfers in Nepal appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Practice.| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
As seafood demand rises, it has been accompanied by a growing understanding of persistent human rights abuses. Recent reports have highlighted how poor procurement practices can contribute to abuses, while stronger practices can reduce them. This report reviews the current landscape and how buyers are enhancing their procurement practices to align with their human rights […] The post Emerging Good Practices on Embedding Human Rights into Seafood Procurement appeared first on Oxfam Policy & ...| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
The Middle East and North Africa is one of the regions that will be affected the most by climate change, extreme weather events, exacerbating the chronic water scarcity that it suffers from and current dependency on fossil fuels. Climate change impacts are already witnessed in many countries, especially those experiencing conflicts. At the same time […] The post Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat: Climate and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Prac...| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Any intervention in a fragile or conflict affected context will inevitably have an impact on that context. These impacts may be intended or unintended, positive or negative, relatively minor or highly significant. Any organisation operating in such a context therefore has a responsibility to try to understand what those impacts may be, and to account […] The post Conflict Sensitivity Framework appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Practice.| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Africa is facing a double inequality crisis: extreme inequality alongside weak commitment among its governments to fight it. But there is hope. The African Union has urged member states to reduce inequality by 15% in the coming decade and has identified progressive taxation as a key tool to do so. The challenge, though, is the […] The post Africa’s Inequality Crisis and the Rise of the Super-Rich appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Practice.| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers. This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving […] The post Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Prac...| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
This paper identifies the current situation and future trends of climate financing, institutional capacity, and budget tracing in Ethiopia. It seeks to inform Oxfam, partners, and all other stakeholders in the discussion for evidence-based decisions and actions to ensure meaningful and informed participation of citizens in social and financial accountability of climate financing at both […] The post Climate Financing, Institutional Structure, and Budget Tracing in Ethiopia appeared first on...| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
This paper presents the first of three Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) conducted by Oxfam on behalf of Bolton Food, focusing on its tuna supply chain in Ecuador between 2021 and 2022. The assessment evaluates both actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain. It seeks to identify the […] The post Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food’s Canned Tuna Supply Chain in Ecuador appeared first on Oxfam Policy & Practice.| All Resources - Oxfam Policy & Practice
This paper reports on the second human rights impact assessment (HRIA) carried out by Oxfam at Nouvelle Cosarno, Bolton Food’s tuna cannery in the coastal city of Agadir, Morocco. The factory employs more than 400 workers, 90% of whom are performing manual tasks (blue-collar workers). Women make up the majority of the manual workers (71%). […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice