Oxfam

Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice by supporting partners across the world through development and emergency response.

Their annual demonstrated impact related to supporting the hunger crisis in East Africa includes:

Supporting access to water and sanitation facilities to over 475,000 individuals in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan.
Providing food distribution, multipurpose cash transfers, livestock feed, agricultural inputs, and skills enhancement to communities experiencing crisis levels of food insecurity.

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Key Strengths: Scale

Multidimensional Poverty Index Indicators: All MPI Indicators

Other Key Outcomes: Not applicable

Recent Expense Budget: US$1,000,000,000

Year Founded: 1942

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The problem: economic inequality and social injustice

Over 700 million people worldwide live on less than US$1.90 a day. For those in extreme poverty, it is difficult or impossible to secure adequate food and shelter, let alone access to education and basic health care. The global poor and politically disenfranchised — namely women and girls, and racial and sexual minorities — are particularly vulnerable to the effects of conflicts, natural disasters, and climate change.

The solution: coordinated action

The causes and effects of global poverty are complicated and interlocking, so the best way to bring about real change is to implement multifaceted, broad solutions to the root causes and ramifications of poverty. These include long-term development, emergency and disaster relief, as well as political advocacy for structural change.

How Oxfam works

Oxfam is uniquely equipped to respond quickly, effectively, and on a great scale to global crises. Oxfam’s size and reach make it a world leader in combating poverty. Whereas smaller nonprofits usually have a narrow focus, Oxfam works not just to address current needs, but to influence policy and infrastructure changes on the international, national, and local levels.

Their 20 national offices work with thousands of local NGOs and nonprofits to test and implement initiatives tailored to individual communities on a wide range of focus areas, including [2]:

agriculture
education
health
HIV/AIDS
climate change
aid effectiveness
emergency response
gender justice
indigenous and minority rights
natural resources
peace and security
private sector
trade
youth outreach

Around 700 million people worldwide live on less than US$1.90 a day.

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What makes Oxfam so effective

Broad scope

In a single year, Oxfam’s worldwide work can reach upwards of 25.7 million beneficiaries, including communities and individuals who are often overlooked in more targeted anti-poverty initiatives, such as women and girls, and sexual and racial minorities.

Targeted disaster relief

Oxfam’s scale, resources, and local partnerships enable staff to act swiftly in the wake of natural disasters and global conflicts. At any given time, Oxfam is responding to over 30 emergency situations worldwide.

Local solutions to global issues

Oxfam works with a large network of on-the-ground partners. For example, to help shape 10 new laws to protect women against gender-based violence in countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, and Pakistan, they connected with 45 local partners, 141 community activist groups, and over 1,000 coalition members.

Commitment to evaluation

Since 2005, Oxfam has had a dedicated department to learning, evaluation, and accountability.

Global leverage

As one of the largest and best-known aid organizations, Oxfam can exert tremendous influence on policy and infrastructure changes at the international, national, and local levels. In November 2013, Coca-Cola responded to their “Behind the Brands” campaign by ensuring its sugar suppliers did not expand production by grabbing land from local people who may have farmed it for generations.

Oxfam’s accountability and sustainability

Oxfam publishes its annual and financial reports on its website, along with a large selection of its policies, codes of conduct, evaluations. [3] [4] (National Oxfam bodies publish their own annual reports on their websites. [5])

Oxfam is focused on structural change to permanently alleviate and eradicate poverty. They work with thousands of local partners to ensure that successes can continue to be replicated at the local level.