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Gender in Emergencies: Practical tools for transformative action
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Building on the progress made, the Oxfam Action Guide is designed to help COs turn Oxfam’s Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Strategy and Standards into practical, context specific actions that make a real impact in crisis affected communities. Clear, concise, and easy to translate, the guide provides step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and key resources to support Oxfam staff and partners in delivering accountable, gender-transformative emergency responses.
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Impact Evaluation of Strengthening Harmonized Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness, and Recovery (SHARPER) Project
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This report presents findings and recommendations from the independent impact evaluation commissioned by Oxfam Pilipinas of its Strengthening Harmonized Action for Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness, and Recovery (SHARPER) Project (Phase 1) that it implemented with local partners within the provinces of Catanduanes and Eastern Samar in the Philippines. The evaluation focused on assessing SHARPER’s gains and impact in line with its second pillar or component that aimed to strengthen resilience of local livelihoods. As such, it complements the project’s contracted studies to track the status of 32 partner communities around identified outcome metrics during the course of implementation, and the multi-country (Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines) final evaluation commissioned by Oxfam America for the Asia Disaster Community Preparedness and Transformation (ACT) program which supported SHARPER.  A key finding of the evaluation highlighted the transformative role of local women-led self-help groups (SHGs) not only in diversifying the community’s livelihood options and setting up mechanisms to facilitate quick post-disaster livelihood recovery, but also in driving community action and critical engagements towards more inclusive and pre-emptive local disaster risk reduction governance. 
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A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid
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Historically there has been very little discussion of feminism within the international humanitarian system. In recent years, some donor governments – including Canada, Mexico, and Germany – have adopted overtly feminist foreign policies and applied these to their strategies and guidance for humanitarian assistance. At the same time, aid actors have started to reconfigure their ways of working, vision, goals, and conceptualisation of humanitarianism in the light of decolonisation, anti-racism, local humanitarian leadership, and gender justice in the aid system. This discussion paper intends to prompt discussion and debate, by exploring what a feminist approach to principled humanitarian aid might look like practically, and what aid actors and the humanitarian system can to do to make it more of a reality. 
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Decolonising women’s land rights: gender and landownership in pre-colonial Africa
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This essay deals with gender and land ownership in pre-colonial Africa. 
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‘Muipuri pacoa, ketimaha romiiri’: The women in the Tukano Oriental Shamanism
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A group of Tukano Oriental Indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon undertook a research initiative implementing a biocultural monitoring methodology for the strengthening of the traditional management of their territory. The initial results revealed that, as the elders had anticipated, crops nurtured by the elders and, notably, by the wise women are the most diverse. However, the joint and autonomous reflection on the results brought to light a concern: the imminent risk of losing the knowledge associated with species of flora and minerals for ritual dyes and fabrics, despite these still being present in crops and the forest. Hence, they proposed actions aimed at the cultural protection and intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge and ritual practices, for which they are responsible. Noticeably, they brought their leading and fundamental role within their traditional knowledge system to the forefront. Their efforts invite us to continue re-evaluating mainstream conservation and biological monitoring concepts and be cautious with climate change programmes that could threaten Amazonian agri-food systems. We present this research as a photo essay to highlight the uniqueness of these Indigenous peoples, the beauty of their traditions, and the determination of their women.
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No Women, No Peace - A Snapshot of Oxfam’s Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Lessons and Opportunities
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This briefing paper summarizes the important lessons learned since 2018 by Oxfam Denmark and the wider Oxfam confederation while promoting the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda and supporting WPS programming in Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine and Yemen, including under the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) strategic partnerships. It contains practical and policy-level recommendations for international actors working on the WPS agenda in various crisis and conflict contexts globally. The briefing paper shows that supporting and amplifying locally led feminist action by diverse women-led, women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights organizations, networks and groups is a central foundation for peace and justice.  
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The Private Sphere Trap: Women and the climate crisis in Iraq
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This Oxfam briefing paper examines the intersection of gender inequality and climate change in Iraq, focusing on the agricultural sector. Women in Iraq face systemic barriers that confine them to the "private sphere," limiting their participation in decision-making processes critical to climate adaptation and mitigation. Through qualitative research, including focus group discussions and key informant interviews, the paper highlights how social norms, economic dependency, and lack of access to resources exacerbate women’s vulnerability to climate impacts. It provides actionable recommendations to foster inclusive climate action, such as raising awareness, leveraging respected female leaders, and improving technical support for farmers. The report underscores the urgent need to dismantle male-dominated structures to build a resilient and equitable future for Iraq.
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A European agenda to tax the super-rich: A solution to inequality in the European Union
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Europe faces a deep inequality crisis: the richest 1% in the EU own nearly a quarter of all wealth while half the population shares just 3%. Decades of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations resulted in the super-rich paying proportionally less taxes than ordinary citizens, eroding fairness, democracy, and social cohesion. The EU lacks harmonized policies to curb extreme wealth concentration and tax avoidance of the wealthiest. Oxfam calls for bold reforms, such as an EU-wide or national tax on the super-rich and transparency mechanisms like an EU assets registry, to fund social needs, climate action, and development. Taxing the super-rich is widely supported, is feasible and is urgent.
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Voices from the margins: the role of decolonial feminism in transforming leadership in the global South
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This paper investigates the potential for decolonial feminism to disrupt norms of leadership and resound diverse voices from countries in the global South. Unlike Western-centric approaches to leadership that often oversimplify intersections, decolonial feminism emphasises their complexity and offers a more nuanced understanding. This perspective also underscores the importance of collective agency rooted in anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal methodologies, as well as inclusive practices that resonate with local epistemologies and cultural contexts. Decolonial feminist leadership disrupts authority by focusing on marginalised voices and creating space for large-scale social reform. The research explores what characterises decolonial feminist leadership, stressing the importance of social movements and the inclusion of a multiple-perspective approach which centres Indigenous and oppressed voices. Case studies of prominent grassroots movements and leaders like Vandana Shiva in India and Marielle Franco in Brazil reveal how these leaders navigate and resist established power structures while advocating for social justice. Despite its potential, decolonial feminist leadership faces challenges, including internal conflicts within feminist movements and resistance from traditional political systems. We have tried to examine the nooks and corners of these issues and suggest methods anew to facilitate more inclusive and decolonial leadership practices. This article demonstrates the importance of decolonial feminism in developing a paradigm for leadership that establishes collaboration, inclusivity, and social justice. This research contributes to the discourse about feminist leadership and offers practical advice for scholars, activists, and policymakers working to promote fairness and justice in a variety of global situations.
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Human Rights Impact Assessment of Bolton Food's Canned Tuna Supply Chain in Ecuador
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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 root causes of these risks and impacts and to provide actionable recommendations to Bolton Food and relevant stakeholders on how to address, mitigate, or remediate them. For the purposes of this assessment, the primary group of rights-holders identified includes male and female workers employed in canned tuna processing plants in Manta, as well as male workers aboard tuna fishing vessels operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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