The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extractivism and exploitation, with the most marginalized paying the highest price while elites profit. From transition mineral mining to debt burdens and unequal energy access, the […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
This is the introduction to the Special Issue on 'Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis'.| Oxfam Policy & Practice
This report outlines Oxfam Scotland's priorities for the Scottish Parliament in the run-up to and following the Scottish election in May 2026. It sets out 40 ambitious but achievable policy goals, using devolved powers, across four pillars of justice: Economic, Social, Climate and Global. Each pillar is vital to building a fairer Scotland in a fairer […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
This report seeks to identify the threats to equity posed by certain land-based climate change mitigation strategies and the potential impacts of these threats on food security and other human rights, in order to sound the alarm on current and potential future inequalities. At the same time, this report highlights opportunities to decrease greenhouse gas […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
These guidelines cover the gathering of content, the management of content, and the use of content by Oxfam for its public engagement work. The main purpose of these guidelines is to ensure that content is gathered, managed and used ethically, in ways that uphold contributors’ rights to participate and be heard, to experience respect and […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
This briefing paper shows how the undervaluation of paid and unpaid care drives poverty and inequalities across Britain, and it outlines a transformational vision for change. Every day, millions of people, mostly women, provide essential paid and unpaid care for children and disabled, ill and older people. Yet their huge contribution remains widely unseen, undervalued […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
Senegal's energy transition is at a critical juncture. While the country has made significant progress in terms of access to electricity and the integration of renewable energies, its energy financing model remains heavily dependent on foreign private investment and favors the latter. This implies debt-based financing and risk mitigation mechanisms that protect investors while risking […]| 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 […]| 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 […]| 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
The lack of secure access to land is a major driver of physical and food insecurity, violence, and violations of the fundamental rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities. This briefing paper outlines the causes and consequences of restricted land access and explores its links with protection risks in the context of […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
There is growing consensus among policymakers, institutions and movements that GDP is not fit for purpose as the pre-eminent economic metric. Alternatives are urgently needed to facilitate the transition to a new economic model that supports a radically more equal, kinder, greener and feminist world in the present, while offering redress for historical damage and […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice
The world is in the grip of a climate emergency. Urgent and equitable action is essential to prevent yet further escalating climate impacts that are devastating communities worldwide and to safeguard a liveable planet for future generations. For governments everywhere, including the UK Government, this is a defining test of leadership. But it is also […]| Oxfam Policy & Practice