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Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Job Creator
Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
Busan in a nutshell
What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?
GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster, prepare for future emergencies
Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ...
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
Where does foreign aid stand?
Press Briefing on Status of Foreign Aid Funding in Budget Debate, September 21, 2011.
Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our ...
New report shows 17 million lives at stake in farm bill negotiations
At the heart of the El Salvador flood response: partnership
When a major storm strikes El Salvador, preparedness and local partnerships make all the difference.
With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
Doubling his weather insurance, this Ethiopian farmer is happy for the security it provides
"Anything can happen," says Alemu Tadesse. And that's why he is investing in weather insurance for some of his crops.
The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor ...
Oxfam: US Government needs to be bolder in efforts to fight poverty
Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
Calling the shots under country ownership
How should US foreign aid decisions be made to ensure that poor countries are in the lead?
Ready or Not
Pakistan's resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
A tiny seed and a big idea
Insurance for Ethiopia's farmers
Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families.
Hardest hit: Ethiopia
A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
Smart Development
Oxfam's briefing paper on making aid work.
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.
Field Report from Southern Sudan
Smart Development in Practice Series
The Right to Survive
The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
The new adaptation marketplace
Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
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