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Establishing resilient communities through women’s leadership and organising: a case study in Gaziantep, Türkiye
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During the pandemic KEDV collaborated with 19 women community leaders in the Akyol neighbourhood of Gaziantep, Turkiye, to assess the pandemic’s immediate economic and social consequences on refugee and local women in their neighbourhood and respond to these needs accordingly.
 
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Fast, Fair, Funded and Feminist: A pathway to a just and transformative climate transition within and beyond the UK
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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 a moment of opportunity—an opportunity to build economies and societies that are not only decarbonised and climate resilient, but that actively reduce inequalities, are more inclusive, and prioritise the wellbeing of people and the planet over short-term profit. In this report, we outline key steps the UK Government can take to lead the way toward a just and transformative transition—one that not only stabilises the climate but also delivers fairness and justice for all.
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From Exploited to Unemployed: The women in Leicester left behind by fast fashion outsourcing, interviews with Leicester garment workers
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This case study presents personal accounts from five women working in garment and textile factories in Leicester, UK. As migrant women in global supply chains, they experience intersectional vulnerability to exploitation, and their stories demonstrate the gendered impact of the buying choices made by fashion brands. 
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Women’s Land Tenure Security and Climate Action: Evidence, barriers to evidence, and the need for collaboration
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The complex connections between women’s land tenure security (WLTS) and climate action need to be understood to inform investments and plans for mitigating climate change and achieving more resilient futures. We synthesise empirical evidence using a conceptual framework with three pathways through which improving WLTS could contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience: long-term land investments, increased range of response options, and sustainable management of forest resources. Although emerging evidence supports WLTS as a route to climate change mitigation and adaptation, data gaps and an insufficiently clear framing of mitigation and adaptation outcomes impede analysis of the impacts of WLTS on mitigation and adaptation. Applying conceptual frameworks for resilience can clarify, organise, and help communicate the expected adaptation and resilience outcomes. Data on women’s bundle of land and resource rights within collective systems, their completeness and durability, and equity compared with men’s rights in the same system are needed to analyse and make more visible WLTS and its potential influence on mitigation and adaptation actions. Researchers, governments, and funders can collaborate to generate the data and evidence needed and assess already existing relevant data. Initiatives to facilitate closer collaboration across land and climate change sectors can help motivate the cross-sector collaboration needed to address data gaps.
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Reclaiming Dignity: The struggle for recognition among women farmers and widows in Maharashtra
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This essay deals with the struggle for recognition among women farmers and widows in Maharashtra, India. 
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Waters of Resistance: Decolonising perspectives on women’s territorial r-existence in southern Chile
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This article explores the gendered experiences of, and responses to, processes of water commodification and scarcity in rural areas of the Toltén River in southern Chile through a decolonial lens. Within the framework of neoliberal water governance, water use rights are primarily owned by large-scale agribusiness and industrial companies, leading to significant socioecological conflicts (dispossession, pollution, and resource depletion) and gendered disparities in rural areas. Women face severe vulnerability concerning access to land and water rights, often resulting in their exclusion from decision-making processes. Consequently, they encounter barriers to accessing credit, subsidies, and capital, further exacerbating their marginalisation and impoverishment. Drawing upon stories collected from women leaders of rural drinking water committees and co-operatives, social movements, and peasant women in the Toltén hydrosocial territory in southern Chile, we analyse conflicts over water use and valuation, along with the different forms of r-existence in which women engage to counter the commodification of water through community-based water management initiatives. Their efforts challenge portrayals of rural women as passive victims of development and reject the notions of water as a mere resource for exploitation. We argue for the adoption of a decolonial feminist approach to investigate everyday forms of r-existence that contribute to collaborative water governance processes. By centring the diverse needs, concerns, and priorities of rural women, this framework offers pathways for transformative change at the intersection of gender, water governance, and colonial legacies.
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Exploring the Potential of Territorial Funds to Achieve Equitable and Inclusive Direct Climate and Biodiversity Finance
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Drawing on the author’s work in research and philanthropy, this essay reflects on the potential of emerging territorial funding mechanisms for promoting equitable and effective direct biodiversity and climate finance outcomes. 
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Conflict Sensitivity Framework
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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 for them in programming. Oxfam is committed to integrating a conflict sensitive approach across all areas of work, including humanitarian, development, peacebuilding and influencing activities, as well as across procurement, recruitment, and all other operational processes. Oxfam’s Conflict Sensitivity resources have been developed to support staff and partners with the integration of conflict sensitivity in their work.
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Launching Group Cash Transfers in Nepal
No full textGroup 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 plains of Nepal, targeting marginalized and diverse communities in Kanchanpur district. Selected groups were supported to implement locally driven initiatives, including livelihood restoration and other community-prioritized activities. The pilot aimed to strengthen community resilience through sustainable, inclusive, and locally led solutions. By placing decision-making power in the hands of communities, the GCT approach helps ensure that interventions are relevant, context-specific, and responsive to local needs. This case study highlights how GCTs can unlock community leadership, foster ownership, and generate valuable insights for future humanitarian and recovery programming
Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement
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The Climate Finance Shadow Report presents analysis of North-South climate finance flows and assessing progress towards the 100 billion commitment to inform climate finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and 2023.
This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and CARE, analyses data from 2021 and 2022 and finds that countries have been failing their climate finance commitments as the true value of reported climate finance was just US28–35bn in 2022 and may even decrease due to planned ODA cuts. Moreover, two-thirds of public climate finance consisted of loans.
This paper calls on developed countries to increase the mobilization and provision of climate finance and in particular for local communities. Countries should come to COP30 with individual climate finance commitments for the period until 2030 , reverse ODA cuts and tap into new sources for climate finance, while prioritizing grants and increased finance for adaptation, loss and damage and gender equality.
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