Countries locked into International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity programs are also, on average, around twice as vulnerable to the economic fallout from the

This report documents the findings and analyses from a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) project conducted with a collective of twelve researchers between September 2025 and July 2026. The research explores how restricted and unjust access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge shapes young women’s relationships with their bodies, their self-perceptions, and their intimate relationships and decision-making.

As a Roving Teacher Trainer, Nyamara Patrick Odego supports teachers with practical skills, classroom mentoring, and continuous professional developmen

During July 2026, the protection environment across monitored collective shelters in South Lebanon and the Bekaa remained characterized by protracted displacement, shelter consolidation measures, barriers to safe and dignified return, deteriorating socioeconomic conditions, and persistent gaps in access to essential services. While displacement trends differed between the two regions, monitoring findings indicate that the households remaining displaced increasingly represent some of the most vulnerable caseloads, facing complex and overlapping protection risks linked to insecurity, housing destruction, loss of livelihoods, financial hardship, and inadequate living conditions.

This note draws on the ECDPM-Oxfam event on "The future of EU development cooperation: navigating trade-offs in a contested world", held in Brussels on 23 September 2026 as an associated event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The event brought together EU and member state representatives, partner-country ambassadors, civil society, the private sector, academia, think tanks, development finance institutions and international organisations to consider what an increased focus on mutual interests means for the future of EU development cooperation. The discussion comes as negotiations on the next EU multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the proposed Global Europe instrument are under way. Economic, geopolitical and security interests are playing a larger role in how Europe approaches international partnerships, reflected in initiatives such as Global Gateway, while development funding has faced significant cuts. The discussion focused on how these EU interests interact with development objectives and partner-country priorities in practice. 

Improving education is not only about training teachers.

Teachers across South Sudan continue to play a critical role in ensuring children can access quality education despite ongoing challenges, including limited resources and professional development opportunities. As the project progresses into its second year, the focus is increasingly on the impact of these investments on teacher confidence, classroom practice, and learner outcomes. 

This snapshot is based on a survey of 29 international and national NGOs conducted in the first week of September and covering the previous six months, from March through August 2026. While the results do not capture every NGO operating in the West Bank, they reflect the persistently constrained operating environment and impact on Palestinian communities.

Civil society organizations warned the IMF what frontloaded fiscal adjustment would mean in practice: large spending cuts imposed all at once, leaving ordina

In its proposed next long-term budget, the EU and its Member States risks undermining development and human rights by diverting development assistance towards migration control, rather than using it for its intended purpose. Drawing on evidence, lessons learned, and analysis of EU migration-related Official Development Assistance (ODA) instruments, this Oxfam paper sets out four recommendations to the EU and its Member States to ensure that development assistance remains focused on sustainable development, poverty eradication and human rights.