Policy Papers

We work on the ground with people living in poverty to make a practical difference, we gather evidence and share knowledge to show what works and what needs to change. From world leaders to multi-national corporations, we challenge opinions and change practices, locally and globally, to bring about lasting results.

Here you'll find a wide selection of reports and papers on the programming, advocacy and research that we undertake in order to achieve our aims. You can browse and download publications by topic and/or date.

Latest publications

 

  • Jenipher Nkotima, 24, used to be able to grow enough maize to feed her family but that the recent drought, exacerbated by climate change, means there hasn’t been enough food to go round. Photo: Eldson Chagara/Oxfam

    The longest lean season

    21 November 2016
  • Approximately 1,000 people are staying at Katsikas camp in the Epirus Region of Northwest Greece. Conditions are poor, with refugees living in army tents and exposed to the weather. Photo credit: Aubrey Wade/Oxfam

    Gender analysis: The situation of refugees and migrants in Greece

    11 November 2016
  • Jalal, 20, from Afghanistan, is in the Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos with his brother's wife Aradol, 25 (not pictured), his nephew Hakem*, 8 and niece Afrooz*, 4.

    More than six months stranded – What now?

    10 November 2016
  • Community Health Volunteers receiving training in Clara Town, Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

    Guide to community engagement in WASH

    3 November 2016
  • Dust blows through a camp for IDPs in Bisle Siti zone. A devastating drought is causing the worst food crisis to hit Ethiopia in 30 years putting millions of people at risk of hunger and disease. Photo credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

    Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016

    3 November 2016
  • A woman in Bria sitting in front of her house, which has been destroyed by the attacks of armed groups - Pablo Tosco/Oxfam

    Central African Republic: unprotected zones

    31 October 2016
  • Karen Ramirez (center) meets with members of a national emergency coordination body in a community affected by a storm surge in El Salvador, in 2015.

    Transforming the system of humanitarian response

    27 October 2016
  • Saibi Mrisho (33) prepares to make charcoal by stacking wood, covering it with leaves and earth and slow burning it over 3 days. Photo credit: Aubrey Wade/Oxfam

    Burning land, burning the climate

    25 October 2016
  • Puerto Montt: shrines. Popular belief here is, that when a person is murdered, they die too soon and their spririt remains on earth. If the murder victim was a good person, then their spirit can do good deeds. Photo credit: Toby Adamson/Oxfam

    The risks of defending human rights

    24 October 2016
  • Cut sugar cane. Photo credit: Ami Vitale / Oxfam America

    Land rights and soda giants

    20 October 2016
  • Rosa, 20, and her baby, from Syria, near to the Croatian border. More than 110,000 migrants and refugees have entered into Serbia since last January. Photo: Sam Tarling/Oxfam

    Causing suffering and problems

    19 October 2016
  • Woman in Mali

    Red lines for the EU's new development framework

    11 October 2016
  • A woman washes clothes at a drinking water source that is next to a toxic ash-pond from the Sasan project in Singrauli. Photo: Joe Athialy/Oxfam

    Owning the outcomes

    30 September 2016
  • Namonaro, land rights defender from Mozambique

    Custodians of the land, defenders of our future

    25 September 2016