Oxfam, UK
Organisation O0058
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| Contact details | Oxfam House John Smith Drive Cowley Oxford OX4 2JY UK Tel. +44 (0) 1865 473727 |
| Type of organisation | Development organisation |
| Organisation's interest | Development |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Learning Group member? | No |
Description
Oxfam GB is a confederation of 12 Oxfam organisations worldwide. An international development and humanitarian NGO, Oxfam was established during World War II to tackle war-induced famine. Today its overriding mission is to tackle poverty and injustice worldwide. Oxfam adopts a range of approaches including emergency relief, long term development programmes and campaigning.
Links to conservation-poverty issues come from its work on livelihoods (particularly links with agro-biodiversity and food security), pastoralists (land tenure and resource management) and human rights.
Projects
Oxfam GB's global programme works in many countries around the world. The following are some of the projects carried out by Oxfam GB around the world:
1. Making a living in rural Angola: Oxfam supports a network of Angolan organisations campaigning actively on land issues since the end of the war. The network aims to support the rights of poor Angolans and their communities to access to productive lands.
2. The Livelihoods Programme in Cambodia: The livelihoods of rural poor people in Cambodia depend heavily on having access to, and use of, natural resources, especially land, fisheries, and forests. We will ensure that these livelihood strategies continue to help bring about food- and income-security to those living in poverty.
3. Sustainable livelihood in Haiti: The overall objective of this programme is to improve the livelihoods of small-scale producers through strategies aimed at reinforcing their production capacities and food security.
4. Sustainable livelihoods and risk prevention in Honduras: The programme’s objective is to reduce rural poverty and achieve a higher income for rural families.
5. Livelihoods in India: The majority of poor people have insecure livelihoods. The situation is worse for people who live in disaster-prone areas. Oxfam's work on livelihoods in India focuses on improving economic security of small producers and farmers, especially women and those prone to natural disasters.
6. Sustainable Livelihood Programme in Indonesia: Oxfam works with communities and partners to: strengthen poor fishers’ capacity to manage coastal resources in sustainable and environmentally friendly ways by improving local production and access to markets; influence the government to allocate sufficient budgets to ensure sustainable harvesting practices.
7. Oxfam's work in Mexico: Oxfam promotes projects of local organisations whose aim is to increase the income of indigenous communities through a rational use of local natural resources.
8. Magic beans! Oxfam is enabling farmers in Siuna, Nicaragua to adopt an environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional ‘slash and burn’ method, which has had a devastating effect on the area’s rainforest. As well as protecting the environment, the new technique has led to a dramatic increase in yields of maize and other crops.
9. Ensuring poor communities have access to and control of their assets in the Philippines: Oxfam has worked in the area of fisheries development since the late 1980s, supporting fishing communities in improving their technology with the aim of securing their right to a sustainable source of food and income.
10. Pastoralists in Ngorongoro, Tanzania: Our work with nomadic herders, or ‘pastoralists’, aims to overcome discrimination against them in obtaining services and work opportunities.
11. Land rights and wrongs, Tanzania: The Serengeti plains and Ngorongoro volcanic crater in northern Tanzania are among Africa’s top tourist attractions. Oxfam is helping indigenous people living in this area to earn a living from tourism and wildlife conservation.
12. Rural livelihoods in Zambia: Oxfam work at community level involves helping people to diversify the crops they grow and livestock they rear.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Web URL
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Related records below this one:
- No Time to Waste: Poverty and the Global Environment (Biblio B0204)
- Community Forest Management: A Casebook from India (Biblio B0465)
- Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability (Biblio B0661)
- The Oxfam Poverty Report (Biblio B0947)
- Food Security Situation in the Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia (Biblio B1130)
- Perspectives on Pastoral Development: A Casebook from Kenya (Biblio B1131)