What Oxfam is Doing
Strengthening Organizations
Oxfam empowers organizations of indigenous peoples and minorities, training their leaders and providing support as they work to make government and society just for all peoples.
Specifically, Oxfam:
- Addresses exclusion—Oxfam helps people get the education they need to understand their rights. Once people understand their basic rights to education, health care, and making a decent living, they can learn how to project their collective voice. They possess a power that can never be taken away from them.
- Seeks out partnerships—We work with representative organizations to help them make their case to decision makers. Oxfam trains leaders to build strong organizations that can articulate the problems in poor and excluded areas. And we help with support for institutions, so they can do the organizing and education needed to empower their constituency and develop sound, reasonable proposals for change.
Strong organizations that demand government transparency and accountability build respect for basic human rights. When Oxfam moves on, a well-established, strong, and capable organization that serves its constituents is an enduring legacy we leave behind.