Campaign Publications

Haiti Progress Report 2011: Summary

mhart — 2012-01-06T21:13:48Z

On Jan. 12, 2010, a massive earthquake hit Haiti, killing 220,000 people, injuring 300,000, and severely damaging great swaths of the country. With more than half a million people still living in camps, Haitians and their new government have struggled to recover. Oxfam remains committed to the challenge. In 2011, Oxfam reached 532,000 people as it began to shift its focus from emergency needs to reconstruction initiatives. Haiti has a long way to go, and so do all of us who support Haitians in the enormous challenge of rebuilding their country.

Oxfam America student action guide

akramer — 2012-01-05T18:54:10Z

Are you a student who wants to support Oxfam? Find our helpful tips for starting and running an Oxfam Club, ideas for campus events, and much more.

Oxfam Fact Sheet: Food Crisis in East Africa

akramer — 2011-11-10T21:22:48Z

Parts of East Africa are the driest they have been in 60 years. But punishing weather is not the only challenge families here face: deep poverty and decades of marginalization have left them with few resources on which to fall back as the price of food soars and water shortages persist. In Somalia, the crisis has escalated into famine.

Right now, Oxfam aims to reach three million people with clean water, food, and basic sanitation services. We are already helping more than two million people by drilling deep wells and rehabilitating existing water supplies, vaccinating animals to ensure their strength during this time of great stress, providing people with cash to buy food, and offering sanitation and public health promotion to stem the spread of waterborne diseases.

Recommendations to the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force

aperera — 2011-10-20T20:27:08Z

Restoration of America’s Gulf Coast, damaged not just by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike and the BP oil spill, but also by decades of degradation from human impacts and natural disasters, is essential for protection of the region’s communities and cultures. Protection of these resources is critical at the national level as well, playing vital roles in our nation’s waterways, commerce, and economy. As the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (“Task Force”), created by an executive order of President Barack Obama, develops its comprehensive restoration strategy, Oxfam and its partners Bayou Grace Community Services, Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (BISCO), Coastal Women for Change, STEPS Coalition, Terrebonne Readiness and Assistance Coalition
(TRAC), and Zion Travelers Cooperative Center—grassroots groups representing coastal communities in the lower Mississippi River Delta—offer the following recommendations to ensure that the region’s most vulnerable residents are active participants in revitalizing our coastal resources and beneficiaries of the new restoration economy. These recommendations represent a call to action for a bold, innovative, and integrated solution involving federal, state, and local governments and industry and community stakeholders.

Talking the walk

aperera — 2011-09-29T15:39:09Z

Aligning business lobbying with corporate social responsibility

Watching the watchdogs

aperera — 2011-09-29T15:16:16Z

With the expansion of the global search for oil, gas, and other natural resources in recent decades, extractive industry companies increasingly have extended their reach to remote and sensitive areas, as well as to more politically risky environments. Within this context, project-affected communities and civil society organizations increasingly demand public accountability of the corporations that implement large-scale projects with the potential to generate serious social and environmental impacts and of the public international financial institutions (IFIs) that sometimes participate in financing these projects. Expert panels bring together experienced independent experts to identify risks and opportunities and prepare recommendations to address social and environmental issues, and generally report directly to company or IFI management. The panels have emerged as a way for project sponsors and lenders to provide an external and ostensibly impartial check on project implementation.

The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations

aperera — 2011-09-21T18:30:16Z

London-based New Forests Company (NFC) would seem to be the design blueprint of how a young modern company should conduct a major land investment in Africa in a responsible way. Oxfam’s investigations reveal that serious allegations by people who were evicted from land to make way for NFC’s operations remain unresolved. How will the company respond?

Oxfam Fact Sheet: GROW Campaign

cengstrom — 2011-07-18T18:22:11Z

One in seven people goes to bed hungry every night. Not because there isn’t enough food, but because of deep imbalances in access to resources like fertile land and water. The power to control these resources sits neither with the billion-plus farmers who produce food, nor with the billions of consumers who eat it.

GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.

mborum — 2011-06-01T14:36:36Z

Soon there'll be nine billion of us on the planet. All of us, our friends and our families, deserve enough to eat. The food, water, and land we all rely on could soon be used up. So more of the same is not enough. It's time to change the way we produce, consume, and share. GROW is the new campaign to do just that. Starting now. To grow for all. A better way of living. Shared solutions for a safer planet. So the next generation can join us at the table.

Open publication

Enough for Everyone

cengstrom — 2011-07-18T18:25:12Z

Right now the power to overcome the failures of our food system sits neither with the billion-plus farmers who produce food nor the billions of consumers who eat it. Instead, companies and governments set policies Oxfam America’s five-point plan to respond to the emerging food crisis and reduce food insecurity around the world and control markets—and they often determine who eats and who doesn’t. We must all work to deliver a future in which everyone has enough healthy food to eat. But the most powerful actors—President Obama, the US Congress and US companies—must take urgent action to begin to build a better food system today.

This plan alone won’t end hunger. But by taking immediate action on these priorities, President Obama, Congress, and companies can ensure greater economic prosperity and national security, a better life for poor farmers, and a more stable food supply for everyone for generations to come.

Protect Community Rights and Resources Fact Sheet

Oxfam America — 2011-07-21T19:40:10Z

But oil, gas, and mining projects don't have to add to poverty and powerlessness; in fact, they can help communities overcome these challenges.

More and more, poor people are asserting their right to decide if or how they want oil, gas, and mining development to take place in their community—and their right to know about the impacts and benefits of these projects.

Fund-raising for Oxfam: Frequently asked questions

akramer — 2011-07-19T13:44:54Z

Oxfam supporters around the country host more than 1,000 grassroots events every year, from bake sales to charity auctions, benefit concerts to Oxfam America Hunger Banquet events. Community-driven efforts like these provide essential support for our work fighting poverty and responding to disasters worldwide.

In this short guide, you’ll find answers to some frequently asked questions about fund-raising for Oxfam in your community. If you have further questions or need help, please contact us by email at actfast@oxfamamerica.org or by phone at (800) 77-OXFAM.

Menu of event ideas

akramer — 2011-07-19T13:45:43Z

Want to raise awareness about poverty and hunger? Find ideas for events you can host at your school, on campus, in your community, or or in the workplace.

Oxfam America organizing guide

Oxfam America — 2011-07-19T13:46:17Z

Ready to take action? This guide includes all the tools you need to begin organizing in your community, including step-by-step instructions for making your voice heard by legislators and in print. We’ve also included some additional suggestions for creative ways to get the word out.

Oxfam America House Party guide

mborum — 2011-07-19T13:46:56Z

A house party is a fun, informal gathering where you get your friends and family together to take action. Whether it's writing a letter or making a phone call to your legislator, having a film screening and discussion, building a support network, or educating others, you'll get to work with others committed to social justice--and you'll make an important contribution by raising awareness about the world's most important issues.