Oxfam Annual Report 2010-2011 Oxfam Annual Report 2011-2012 CONTENTS Click on an image to go directly to a section 1 About Oxfam 2 Our Year 3 One Oxfam 4 Economic Justice 5 Essential Services listening to our Fundraising Gender Justice Expenditure 6 Rights in Crisis 7 8 stakeholders 9 & income 10 energy and Organizational Living Our Values contact us Annex 11 12 resources 13 Profile 14 A OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 2 ABOUT THIS REPORT Our Annual Report provides an overview Oxfam supports increasing calls for greater of the work of the Oxfam confederation accountability from Non-Governmental INGO ACCOUntaBILITY from April 2011 – March 2012. The report Organizations (NGOs) to donors, governments, partners and communities and this report CHARTER - GRI CONTENT covers the work of the Oxfam International complies with the International NGO Throughout this report you will find secretariat, detailing our joint campaigns Accountability Charter and the Global Reporting bracketed references to each of the GRI and financial figures, and also illustrates Initiative (GRI). As a founding member of the requirements, and blue boxes describing Charter, we are part of an ongoing process to work from our affiliates. in more detail our approaches to set up common standards for International NGOs accountability. and to create mechanisms to report, monitor and evaluate compliance with those standards. These examples demonstrate how we strive to comply with the principles of the Charter. See Annex for details. OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 3 SECTION 1 About Oxfam om Greenwood/Oxfam T OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 4 1. ABOUT OXFAM (GRI 2.2, 2.8) Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations OUR CENTRAL COMMITMENT networked together in 94 countries, as part of a global movement for change. We work directly with communities, We are outraged by the poverty and injustice in Our Strategic Plan ‘Demanding Justice 2007 – and we seek to influence those in power to ensure the world. We must challenge unjust policies and 2012’, is available on our website at that people living in poverty can improve their lives and practices and respect people’s rights. Together www.oxfam.org/strategicplan. It sets out we can achieve a fair world without poverty. With our central commitment to put into practice livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. partners and allies, we will act in solidarity with this rights-based approach by supporting people living in poverty, especially women, to people living in poverty to hold governments, achieve their rights and assert their dignity as corporations and international organizations full citizens. (including Oxfam) to account for their responsibilities. In adopting the rights-based ietrasik/Oxfam All Oxfam’s work is framed by our commitment to approach, Oxfam uses a range of interventions: P om T five broad rights-based aims: • long-term sustainable development programs • the right to a sustainable livelihood with and through partners and communities; • the right to basic social services • related campaigns and advocacy at the global, • the right to life and security regional, national and local levels involving • the right to be heard research, lobbying, media and popular • the right to an identity mobilization; • emergency assistance for natural disasters Within this framework we will work together on and conflict situations and assistance in narrower “change goals” – the specific areas in response to slow-onset emergencies. which we aim to achieve positive change. The change goals are: 1. ECONOMIC JUSTICE 2. ESSENTIAL SERVICES 3. RIGHTS IN CRISIS 4. GENDER JUSTICE A vegetable market in the town of Bara Gaon, Uttar Pradesh, India. The price of staple foods such as rice and vegetables has risen throughout India. Fluctuating food prices which puts millions of people at risk, is one of the issues highlighted in the GROW campaign Image from previous page: Maithree Shanthirathna, part of Oxfam’s team in Sri Lanka wears a GROW T-shirt whilst holding a sack of capsicums OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 5 1. ABOUT OXFAM (GRI 2.2, 2.8) CHANGE GOALS 1. ECONOMIC JUSTICE 2. ESSENTIAL SERVICES 3. RIGHTS IN CRISIS 4. GENDER JUSTICE Our goal: More women and men will realize their Our goal: the Millennium Development Goals for Our goal: All women and men in humanitarian Our goal: Many more women will gain power over right to secure and sustainable livelihoods. essential services will be achieved, and people crises will be assured both the protection and their lives and live free from violence through living in poverty, especially women and girls, will the assistance they require, regardless of who changes in attitude, ideas and beliefs about • Improve the lives of farmers and agricultural realize their rights to accessible and affordable or where they are or how they are affected, in a gender relations, and through increased levels laborers living in poverty and vulnerable health, education, water and sanitation. manner consistent with their human rights. of women’s active engagement and critical situations. Reaching the majority of people leadership in institutions, decision-making and living in poverty will mean changing the rules • Demand that national governments fulfill their • Deliver better protection and greater change processes. that govern agriculture so that they get a responsibilities to deliver good quality services assistance, through improving our skills decent reward for their labor. in health, education, water and sanitation, competencies and capacities, and becoming • Support women’s leadership at all levels to especially for women and excluded groups. more accountable to the people we are achieve greater power in decision-making and • Achieve fairer trade rules for poor countries. assisting. We will also increase our work greater control over their lives. People living in poverty must get a fair share • Support civil society organizations and with and through local organizations, and of the wealth and opportunities generated by alliances to hold governments accountable for particularly strengthen the role of women. • Work to end gender-based violence by world trade. the delivery of these services. changing ideas, attitudes and beliefs of men • Change policies and practices of the and women that permit violence against • Reduce the impact of climate change • Ensure better policies and more funding from international humanitarian system to deliver women. by supporting vulnerable people and rich countries and international institutions, as better protection and greater assistance. communities, particularly in agriculture, to well as making sure they honor already existing This will mean lifting the standards of • Strengthen Oxfam’s own learning and adapt to climate change. We will campaign on commitments on aid and debt reduction. disaster response by international agencies, capacities on gender to ensure that gender the injustice of climate change – which nearly implementing commitments by governments justice is achieved in all our work. always hits poorest communities hardest. on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and pursuing an Arms Trade Treaty. • Work within the framework of human security, with a greater focus on preventing conflict, peace-building, reconciliation and longer-term development. OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 6 1. ABOUT OXFAM (GRI 2.2, 2.8) WHERE WE WORK Oxfam Novib(Netherlands) Oxfam Ireland Oxfam Germany Oxfam Great Britain Oxfam-in-Belgium Oxfam Quebec Oxfam France Oxfam Canada Oxfam Italy Intermón Oxfam Oxfam America (Spain) Oxfam Japan Oxfam India Oxfam Mexico Oxfam Hong Kong We work in 94 countries This work includes long term development programs, responding to humanitarian crises, Oxfam campaigning and advocacy and raising public awareness New Zealand of the causes of poverty and injustice. See page 65 for the Oxfam Australia contact details of the 17 organizations. OXFAM ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A1 www.oxfam.org 7 SECTION 2 Our Year nnie Bungeroth/Oxfam A 2. OUR YEAR (GRI 1.1, 2.9) There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, yet despite Oxfam Oxfam this, one billion people – one in seven – go to bed hungry every night. It is in response to this, that in 2011, Oxfam launched the GROW campaign. GROW calls for a world where everyone has enough to eat. We believe that through national and international actions we can bring an end to the injustice affecting our broken food system and in June, together with partners and allies, we launched the campaign in more than 40 countries around the world. We have Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director Keith Johnston, Chair Oxfam International Oxfam International also been campaigning on the devastating effects of the food crises in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel region of West Africa. Last year I saw first-hand the devastation We also learnt from the crisis. Our evaluation third of a million people. After nearly ten years a single strategy and single management. We caused by hunger as I visited Dadaab refugee highlighted that we must continue to ensure of campaigning, the Control Arms Campaign are confident that this will bring greater impact camp in Kenya, near the Somali border, to see our humanitarian and longer-term development partnership (which includes Oxfam), is continuing and reduced costs at the country level. SMS Oxfam’s humanitarian work in action.