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Rhodah Kabbila (front), Obvious Malyeniluyu (back) and Busiku M Shakantu (center) are members of the Natural Resource Group in Sindzongwe, Mamba in Southern Zambia. The group lobbied to save a bridge that helps the community during the country’s wet season. “We have been able to have roads repaired and new classrooms built for a school here,” said Busiki. “We did all of these things through the voice of this group.”

Photo: Georgina Goodwin/Oxfam AUS

Oxfam Natural Resource Justice Strategic Plan

2021-2027

Few sectors have contributed more to the twin crises of global inequality and climate change than the extractive industries. Yet, despite a looming climate emergency and fresh concerns about the post-COVID economy, the pressure to extract oil and minerals remains higher than ever. Never has Oxfam’s campaign for natural resource justice proven more critical.

With this context, we are pleased to present Oxfam’s Natural Resource Justice Strategic Plan (available in English, Spanish, and French).

This strategic plan will guide our natural resource research, advocacy, influencing, partnerships, and programming work through 2027 across all levels of the Oxfam confederation. We will implement our new strategic plan in over 30 countries in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, contributing to Oxfam's mission of creating a more just and sustainable world.

We are energized, focused, and determined that we, together with our partners and allies, can achieve natural resource justice and a more equitable, sustainable world.

Gabriela Bucher, Oxfam International Executive Director

Oxfam has been working in partnership with communities adversely impacted by the mining, oil, and gas sector for over two decades. Our work takes us to these communities; to regulators and treasury officials in national capitals; to the boardrooms of multinational companies and those financing extractive industry project development, including the international financial institutions; and to those forums where many of the standards and rules governing the sector are made.

Wherever we are, we work alongside and for the benefit of those communities that are impacted by the sector and for those people who, despite the tremendous oil and mineral wealth with which their country is endowed, continue to live in poverty.

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