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Ownership in practice: The key to smart development
Countries should provide foreign aid in ways that strengthen the voice of poor people and the responsiveness of the state.
Predictable, multiyear aid is life-saving in difficult contexts
An interview with Melissa Phillips, NGO Secretariat Coordinator in Juba, Southern Sudan.
In promoting public health, compassion is Margaret Asewe's best medicine
In Chad, Margaret Asewe worked with some of the first refugees from Darfur. In the summer of 2007, she returned to confront another rainy season and thousands ...
On a high note, Oxfam conveys health information
Using familiar tunes, women sing about how to avoid fatal diseases in a crowded camp for displaced people in Darfur.
Field Report from Southern Sudan
Smart Development in Practice Series
The Right to Survive
The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser on Bloggingheads.tv
Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and The American Prospect, chats with Ray Offenheiser about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices ...
Enhancing US aid effectiveness: The state of play and ways forward
This panel considers three important policy processes, and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape US foreign assistance and global development policy.
After the quake: Preventing disease
Oxfam has built latrines and bathing stalls, and provided basic necessities, such as soap and toothbrushes to thousands of people living temporarily in camps, ...
A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Captured in photos
One month after the earthquake, Oxfam is providing water, latrines, plastic sheeting, and relief materials–as well as cash payments for work—to thousands who ...
What’s in a bar of soap
In the crowded camps of Pakistan, parents talk to Oxfam's Jane Beesley about the importance and challenges of keeping their families clean.
Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ...
What Happened at the G20?
Initial analysis of the London summit
Oxfam reaction to G8 communique
Oxfam outlines four stepping stones to the G20's 'new world order'
Questions and answers on Novartis and the Glivec patent case in India
Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health
Oxfam welcomes Global Health Initiative announcement
Take Action: Global Food Crisis
Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
Two promises kept on fight against poverty, one more left to go
Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
Hardest hit: El Salvador
“Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
Not just more, better: improving aid to the developing world
"Africa's future is up to Africans"
President Obama's first speech in sub-Saharan Africa hits important points on good governance, responsible use of natural resources, trade, and defeating ...
Humanitarian crisis imminent in Somali refugee camp, Oxfam warns
The long road home
As the rainy season approaches, providing emergency shelter materials to those who have lost their houses is one of Oxfam's top priorities.
Field report from Afghanistan
Smart Development in Practice series
Failing the Cardozo test
Why US foreign assistance legislation needs a fresh start
A journey to Zimbabwe with Emile Hirsch
As the fight against cholera continues in Zimbabwe, a public health worker documents her travels alongside the actor and Oxfam Ambassador.
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