Publication date: 22 December 2025
A mutual evolution with partners that began with conversations, sometimes difficult ones. This is how Jaroslawa Szewczuk, Oxfam’s Partnership Coordinator, describes Oxfam’s transition in Ukraine. At the onset of the full-scale invasion, the work focused on responding to the crisis and supporting affected communities alongside partners, at break-neck speed. Now, more than three years later, it has been about shifting approaches and stepping back, asking the partners what their organizations need to continue their vital work with communities or who they want to become. But the ‘becoming’ in this shift is not that of the partners alone, it is of Oxfam as well.
