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Reframing Narratives Around Care and Informal Work in Kenya, the UK and Zimbabwe: A synthesis of national research
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This research study across three countries – Kenya, UK, and Zimbabwe – was carried out to identify the dominant narratives that influence public perceptions of care and informal work. It enabled the researchers to develop and test new narratives that could be used to improve public attitudes towards care and informal work. Creating new stories about care and informal work is vital to securing adequate investment and support from communities, traditional leaders and governments.
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Towards Achieving Gender Equity in the Food Sector: What can investors do?
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Women and gender-diverse people represent an important constituency in the food value chain. Among all working women globally, about one in three works upstream in the food value chain. These women face increasing barriers to safety, recognition and advancement. Yet very little about their experiences has been documented. In the limited instances where the women who power global supply chains have been put into focus, most have concentrated on the experiences of women workers in the apparel sector.
Through desktop research, one-on-one interviews with local organizations, case studies and workshops, this paper provides information and guidance on how investors, who are well-positioned to encourage companies to advance gender equity upstream in company supply chains, can help reshape this narrative and encourage companies to act.
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Beyond Crises: The future of Special Drawing Rights as a source of development and climate finance
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The allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has generated considerable interest in using SDRs as a tool for development and climate finance. This policy brief argues that the monetary logic that underpins SDRs justifies regular allocations of at least $200 billion a year, and more than doubling the share of low-and middle-income countries. Once allocated, governments can use SDRs in multiple ways, including to fund some development or climate projects. The brief also discusses reforms to deepen the SDR system in the interest of all countries.
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Water War Crimes: How Israel has weaponised water in its military campaign in Gaza
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This report presents a detailed analysis of how the Government of Israel has systematically weaponized water against the Palestinians in its latest assault on Gaza, raising grave concerns of human rights violations and breaches of international law. It highlights ongoing violations of international laws, showing how the Government of Israel has used water deprivation to dehumanize and ultimately threaten Palestinian lives since the 1993 Oslo Accords. This culminates, in a brutal fashion, in the current military operation in Gaza.
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Right-sizing Corporate Voice: A briefing for business on responsible political engagement
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Businesses dominate the policymaking process, mostly prioritize short-term financial interests and provide minimal transparency, creating an inherent risk of corporate policy capture that has been exacerbated by practices across lobbying, advocacy and political spending. A new approach to corporate political engagement – building on existing frameworks and based on the familiar experience of developing human rights due diligence – can tackle these issues and enable companies to align their political engagement with the protection of human rights, delivery of ambitious environmental goals, support for civic institutions and the needs of society. The briefing sets out the actions that businesses should take to achieve this.
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A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran
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Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in a broader sociohistorical context and present a nuanced understanding of their presence in emerging public spaces. To do so, I compare texts written by the non-locals with those written by local observers with a specific focus on their characterisation of women and their presence and agency in the newly emerging public spaces during this time. Having used grounded theory methods to carry out the initial examining and coding of the data, I investigate the degree to which the images portrayed by the local and non-local texts take into account the material circumstances of women. I deconstruct the dominant knowledge about Iranian women’s portrayal and reconstruct a layered sociohistorical interpretation of the findings, thereby proposing an alternative decolonial narrative of women’s agency in public spaces in 19th-century Iran. I contend that the prevalent historical portrayal of women’s agency, particularly in public spaces, is markedly shaped by one of the narratives of the late 19th century, i.e. that of the non-local Western observers. Building on a comparative analysis, I argue that to produce alternative decolonial place-based feminist knowledge, it is imperative to re-engage with domestic texts. By revisiting these sources, feminist scholars can question and deconstruct the dominant knowledge on women’s presence in urban landscapes and reconstruct a more accurate and diversified feminist narrative that acknowledges women’s dynamic interplay with the local and global forces which in itself is a decolonial feminist practice.
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Moving Along, Stopping at: The gendering of the public spaces in Al Wehdat Camp in Amman, Jordan
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In Al Wehdat Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, women are usually seen in motion, attempting to navigate the camp space or move around it to complete their everyday errands within what is a highly male-dominated space. The spaces in which they stop, and stay, are limited. For this paper, I conduct an architectural investigation into the camp to understand the different ways architecture has contributed to the gendering of the public spaces in the camp, particularly in relation to two elements: streets and walls. Streets are fundamentally paths of activity and movement, paths along which women are usually seen moving, while walls are what construct interiors inside which activities take place, ones that women either visit or avoid, with both elements drawing lines of privacy, ownership, and safety. This investigation makes use of nine months of ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Al Wehdat Camp between 2019 and 2023, based on focus groups and interviews with women in the camp. I rely on the experience of the women to better understand the gendering of the camp space as a way of understanding the spatial production and transformation of the camp after six decades of its establishment. I also reflect on my own experience of researching the camp during the fieldwork, as a woman Palestinian and Jordanian scholar who stands at the threshold between being an insider and an outsider to the experiences of the women and the lived reality of Al Wehdat Camp.
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Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all
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The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately by the super-rich. 
We share new evidence of how the yachts, jets and polluting investments of the 50 richest billionaires are accelerating the climate crisis. Oxfam’s research shows that the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1% are causing economic losses of trillions of dollars; contributing to huge crop losses; and leading to millions of excess deaths.
As global temperatures continue to rise, risking the lives and livelihoods of people living in poverty and precarity, we must act now to curb the emissions of the super-rich and make rich polluters pay. 
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The Triple Nexus in Somaliland: Lessons from integrated humanitarian-development-peacebuilding work in El-Afweyn district
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Oxfam is committed to working with communities before, during and after crises. In Somaliland, we have been piloting approaches that aim to achieve greater synergy between our humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programming and influencing. This innovative ‘triple nexus’ work recognises that communities' needs and ambitions are not met along the false silos created by aid agencies.  It asks the international development and humanitarian sector to walk the talk on locally led programming to better meet the holistic needs and aspirations of communities. This case study clearly shows the impact of programming which simultaneously meets immediate needs and development gaps while also addressing the drivers of crisis (such as conflict and climate change) to achieve durable solutions in protracted crises.
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Putting An End To World Hunger - The European Union’s role in transforming the global food system
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Farmers around the world produce more than enough to feed everyone on the planet, yet since 2017 hunger has increased sharply. Promoting food production and distribution that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable is a necessity, in Europe and globally. This paper highlights the European Union’s role in addressing global hunger and supporting a sustainable and equitable global food system transformation. A new direction is needed and the EU can make a positive change. Smallholder farmers in the Global South offer enormous untapped potential for fighting global hunger but they must be better supported. The EU must also stand for climate justice by taking the climate change threat to food security seriously, limit the EU’s global land use footprint by stopping unsustainable and irresponsible land use that drives hunger and inequality, and balance the power in food systems by breaking corporate domination and enhancing equitable global food governance.
 
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