Oxfam Strategic Plan, 2013-2019
Oxfam Strategic Plan, 2013-2019
Cover photo: Caroline Gluck
THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY 3OXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013 – 2019Contents1. forewordForewordOxfam’s VisionThe power of people against povertyOxfam’s guiding principles567102. SIX GOALS TO CHANGE OUR WORLDIntroductionGoal 1: The Right to be Heard – People claiming their right to a better lifeGoal 2: Advancing gender justiceGoal 3: Saving lives, now and in the futureGoal 4: Sustainable foodGoal 5: Fair sharing of natural resourcesGoal 6: Financing for development and universal essential services131415161718193. six goals to change the way we workIntroductionOperational Goal 1: Creating a worldwide influencing networkOperational Goal 2: Program quality, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL)Operational Goal 3: Strengthening accountabilityOperational Goal 4: Investing in peopleOperational Goal 5: Cost effectivenessOperational Goal 6: Income strategy222324252627284. benchmarks and budgetMeasuring the impact of our work for people in povertyFunding the ambition for poverty reduction in this Strategic PlanGlossary of abbreviations303031
1. forewordPhoto: Rachel Corner
THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY 5OXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013 – 2019Oxfam has a vision: nine billion people will live equitablyand free from the injustice of poverty, on a planet that hasthe natural resources to sustain them.Realizing this vision means overcoming huge and complexchallenges in an ever-more volatile world. In 2050, therewill be 2 billion more people than today, but we aresquandering precious natural resources; inequality isincreasing in poor and rich parts of the world, within andbetween countries.We live in a world that has sufficient resources, means,and knowledge to solve these problems, yet our leadersstruggle to find the political courage to tackle them.The blight of poverty demands a powerful and practicalmoral response to its causes and the impact of povertyon people’s lives. A clear change in direction is urgentlyneeded.National governments and international organizations areincreasingly ducking their responsibility for tackling the bigissues, often compromised by political weakness, politicalexpediency or powerful vested interests. Shifting globalpower dynamics are resulting in splits between rich andpoor countries on major global issues such as trade andclimate change that affect developing countries.Climate change is a looming disaster which is alreadyhaving dramatic impacts, yet meaningful action has beenparalyzed. Global warming is causing harm and sufferingto vulnerable communities, with increasing frequency ofweather related disasters and volatile food prices. Unfairaccess to natural resources - land, water, energy – isdeepening the inequality that hits the poorest hardest.There is growing public outrage at the corporatedishonesty and excesses that led to the crisis in theglobal financial system and at unaccountable and corruptgovernments that fail to protect the vulnerable andexacerbate injustice. Profligacy in the rich world, fuelledby reckless lending, has forced global austerity thatcauses great hardship and tragic social consequencesin many parts of the world. Developing countries arefacing a decline in the quantity and quality of aid by manydonor countries. Demand for change, across the world, isespecially passionate from young people, who are beingdenied a future in rich and poor countries alike. With somuch at stake, the world cannot afford to slide back into‘business as usual’. Ultimately it will require people-powerto find a new and more sustainable path from poverty.There are plenty of reasons for hope. Rejection of the ‘old’economic growth paradigm opens crucial opportunitiesfor new thinking and approaches that favour a just andsustainable future. Ending extreme poverty and inequalityis within the reach of this generation. More progressivegovernments, more effective international bodies andmore socially responsible corporations will be an importantfactor; but, mainly, lives are being improved by the powerof people to demand their basic rights, turn the trend ofinequality, and create their own solutions together.Creating the political will for change needs people,organizations, and alliances working together acrosscontinents, rich and poor countries, and social dividesto drive change locally and globally. Our goal will beredistribution for greater equality of income, and ofpower of poor people; matched by the solidarity ofconcerned people in rich countries working to change theirgovernments’ policies and behaviour. Success will emergefrom the partnership that links local and national actionwith global change. It will be vital for organizations withinfluence, such as Oxfam, to do our utmost to protect thepolitical ‘space’ for people’s movements and organizations,space which is under increasing threat around the world.Oxfam’s Strategic Plan to 2019 has a vision that sets localcommunities and the voices of women, men and youngpeople at the centre of change. Through dialogue andpressure on governments and business, and throughpractical programs that enable human development,dignity and wellbeing, it is those voices that are the besthope for ending discrimination, exclusion and the injusticeof poverty.
6 THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTYOXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013-2019Oxfam’s VisionOxfam’s vision is a just worldwithout poverty: a world inwhich people can influencedecisions that affect theirlives, enjoy their rights, andassume their responsibilitiesas full citizens of a world inwhich all human beings arevalued and treated equally.The ultimate goal of Oxfam is to end the injustice of poverty.Through the period covered by the Plan, to 2019, we wantto see consolidation of the gains that have been made overthe past decade in reducing poverty, measured in terms ofincome levels as well as equality. People who were oncepoor should achieve permanent wellbeing without slippingback into poverty. The achievements within the MilleniumDevelopment Goals (and the post-2015 successors), shouldbe long-term and irreversible.There will have been an accelerated pace of povertyreduction and inequality in all countries, includingemerging economies (such as China and India), low-incomecountries and fragile states, as well as OECD countrieswhere the scourge of inequality risks blighting futuregenerations. That implies that we must find ways to reachvery poor people living at the edge of survival.Our goal is to see significantly less poverty amongstwomen and other excluded groups. Social protectionshould underpin anti-poverty strategies in all countries.Income gains should not be at the expense of people’shuman rights and well-being, for example, receiving betterincomes but still having to work 90 hours a week in apolluted environment or as a rights-deprived migrant in aforeign country.Poverty reduction should not rob the next generation,and should be achieved sustainably, without worseningclimate change.
THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY 7OXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013 – 2019The Power of People againstPovertyToday 1 billion of the earth’s 7 billion women and men live inavoidable extreme poverty. Within a single generation, theearth will be inhabited by 9 billion people, and 90 per centof the additional 2 billion inhabitants are likely to be borninto poverty.The challenge of our generation is to find the ways tochange those odds. How can we reduce extreme poverty,increase people’s rights, and balance the ecologicalsystems that sustain life and the economic systems thatsustain wealth? The answer is, simply, justice; fair useof the world’s natural resources; a global economy thatreduces inequality; a world that does not discriminateagainst women or minorities.Oxfam’s contribution is to use an integrated approach,reducing poverty by addressing the causes of poverty,locally, nationally and globally. Oxfam works at the mostfundamental level to save lives in humanitarian crises,and at the grass-roots level to promote development;and, simultaneously, we link local action with crucialcampaigning that draws on our advocacy in support ofpolicies and practice that underpin justice and well-being.We couldn’t do either well without the other, and it isweaving together this complex web of efforts and joiningwith others, in dialogue or in protest, that Oxfam has foundto be effective.Increasingly the focus has shifted with the understandingthat exclusion, inequality and injustice are the real target,more than simply a lack of income. The most effectivesolutions lie in people demanding their rights to livelihoodsand decent work, and working together to increaseliving standards and reduce vulnerability. Oxfam works toenable people to become fully integrated and respectedmembers of their society and economy. We do this byworking with communities, lobbying for change by nationalgovernments, or campaigning globally to change the waythe policies of rich countries create or perpetuate theinjustice of poverty.There are some recurring priorities that underpin all ourlocal-to-global work.In all Oxfam’s programming, campaigning and humanitarianrelief efforts, we support people to claim and exercisetheir basic rights, to life and security, a sustainablelivelihood, and the most essential services to sustain lifesuch as health and education. The right to be heard andto have a recognized identity are also a fundamental partof human well-being. These rights are explicitly groundedin the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UnitedNations, and the relevant Treaties and Covenants.In the coming years, we will continue to place a highpriority on supporting women at all levels to becomeleaders and take valued roles in the society and economy.Women are proving their power to lead communities andbusinesses and thwart the violence and oppression thathas kept them illiterate and exploited in many parts of theworld.Equally, campaigning to arrest runaway climate changeis part of our effort to prevent natural disasters andadapt to environmental conditions. We want to ensurethat poor countries do not pay the price for the historicalresponsibility of the polluting rich world which has enjoyedunrestricted carbon-based development. This underpinsour work on sustainable development and food; ouradvocacy for more equality between parts of the worldand within countries; a belief that fairer sharing of scarcenatural resources is vital for the future of the planet andhumanity.These approaches form the basis for the Strategic Plan.Fortunately, there are grounds for optimism.Within the last two decades, 660 million people haverisen out of poverty. Average real incomes in developingcountries have doubled and the world’s average lifeexpectancy has increased by four years. We are developingthe understanding of what is needed to reduce poverty invaried and complex circumstances.Investment in small-scale farming, particularly womenfarmers, can make big inroads on poverty. There is much tolearn from the experiences of large-scale poverty reductionin East Asia. Brazil has demonstrated that effective taxsystems to finance good quality public services, such ashealth and education, can reduce poverty and inequality.There are also increasing numbers of governments thatprove the importance of effective states, without which itis impossible to tackle poverty. Some developing countrygovernments are establishing social safety nets to protecttheir most vulnerable and excluded citizens – a vitalmeasure to address inequality and fairness.
8 THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTYOXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013-2019The changing landscape of global power is moving to Asiaand middle-income countries, home to a majority of theworld’s poor. This shift offers new opportunities to reducepoverty and inequality. It also means that countries suchas China and India are beginning to undertake developmentprograms in other parts of the world.People in all parts of the world are rapidly making use ofdigital communications and sharing real-time informationto assert their right to be heard through smart activistmovements that are often led by young people opposingpolitical tyranny, corporate irresponsibility and theplundering of the planet’s resources.In the midst of such huge change, Oxfam, like otherdevelopment organizations, needs to keep faith with loyalsupporters who drive the campaigns, who so generouslyfund the organization and, critically, who ensure, by theirparticipation, that Oxfam can be genuinely independent.We must also continue to find innovative approaches,develop new sources of finance, make our resources goeven further and promote new, inclusive ways for people toparticipate.This Strategic Plan sets priorities that build on thatprogress and that we judge will do most to reduce theinjustice of poverty to 2019, starting with greater equality.Equality equals RightsDespite the huge progress of the last four decades inreducing extreme income poverty, inequality is becominga critical problem, both between and within countries,whether rich or poor. Inequality means over-abundance forthe few and injustice for the many. This is a denial of therights of millions of people.High-income countries have average incomes that are morethan 70 times those of low-income countries. Redistributionof 10% of the incomes of the richest countries wouldincrease the incomes of the poor countries by more thannine-fold per head.of the world’s work but earn only 10 per cent of the world’sincome (source: UNDP).The Strategic Plan sets the reinforcement of people’srights, and especially women’s rights, at the heart of allwe do. Beyond enabling women and marginalized people tohave access to valued roles in the economy and society,we will put a particular focus on gender justice andempowering poor people to make their voices heard.We will also push for meaningful social protection toensure that peoples’ most basic needs are met andto avoid the exclusion that perpetuates the deepestpoverty. Universal access to essential services is a right.Challenging inequality and exclusion also demands of us amore effective response to poverty-driven migration.We must reverse the trend of increasing inequality.Hunger in a world of plentyVolatility of prices, of weather, and of access to foodis particularly harmful for people living in poverty. Theygenerally lack the social safety nets, such as insurance,that protect people in crises. Over the last decade theworld’s poor have experienced huge multiple shocks. Theglobal economic crisis generated in the rich world, has hadmajor negative impacts on rich and poor countries. Globalfood price crises have sparked protests and riots across thedeveloping world. The impact of climate change is alreadywreaking havoc on vulnerable communities in many parts ofthe world, with weather-related events quadrupling sincethe 1980s. The proportion of the world’s poor living in fragilestates has doubled.This all underscores the importance of helping to buildthe resilience of people living in such a volatile context,helping them to increase their power to sustain their ownlivelihoods.Inequality keeps poor people poor and powerless, andweakens the capacity of economic growth to eradicatepoverty. Systematic exclusion and discrimination createdeep social problems such as youth unemployment anddeny people their dignity and their voice, which deepenssocial frustration and the likelihood of conflict.Part of that effort will focus squarely on food. Small-scalefarming, often under the management of women, is a provensuccess in many countries. Property rights and policiesthat prevent speculative acquisition of land for biofuelsand carbon markets – land grabs – will help local peopleto sustain their own food supplies and economy. We willcontinue to engage in, and encourage fair trade, and willpress for food companies to behave responsibly.One of the most serious and pervasive forms of inequality isdiscrimination against women and girls. Two-thirds of theworld’s illiterate adults are women. Women do 60 per centIn a world where there is enough food to feed the wholepopulation of the planet, it is unacceptable that 1 billionpeople go hungry.
THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY 9OXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013 – 2019Fair Sharing of ResourcesPoor communities find themselves in competition withpowerful interests for control over the land, water andenergy resources that they depend upon for survival, withwomen and girls often disproportionately affected. Manyof these struggles also pit rich countries against poor,and corporate interests against ordinary women, menand communities. The global consumption of resources isalready outstripping the earth’s capacity to accommodateit.Climate change, too, affects the poor world vastly morethan the rich world that has by far the greatest historicalresponsibility for emissions of greenhouse gases. For poorcountries, tackling climate change is about survival andthe right to develop; for rich countries it is about lifestyleand changing levels of consumption. This is profoundlyunequal.We are also demanding equitable sharing of natural resources. For example, extractive industries need tobecome more transparent, and environmentally andsocially responsible. This means fair sharing of revenueswith local communities and equitable contributions ofroyalties and taxes to national governments.It also requires progressive taxation policies of nationalgovernments to address gross inequalities and enableredistribution, while at the global level, more coordinatedefforts to tackle the scourge of corruption which costspoor governments and poor people vast amounts ofrevenue.Sustainable development and sustaining scarce resourcesare at the core of Oxfam’s work.Saving lives, better futuresOxfam has a long and well-recognized record of humanitarianrelief in times of natural disaster and crisis. We are gettingbetter, as a partnership of international organizations,at coordinating and delivering the water and sanitation,food, shelter and security that are needed in emergencies.Oxfam’s focus in the coming years will also include helpingpeople to guard against future crises by becoming moreresilient. Whether it is adaptation to the vicissitudes ofthe climate, or establishing emergency responses locally,preparation is key. Oxfam will focus on the reinforcement ofpeople’s rights to guard against the effects of disaster andto cope with emergencies, ensuring that all parts of societyare part of the response.The focus for our longstanding role of providing essentialservices – such as health and education – is also shifting,to encourage self-managed local solutions. Yet again, itcomes back to people knowing and exercising their rightsand devising approaches that suit their own environment,whether urban or rural. Increasingly humanitarian responsewill need to address the needs of urban communities, inresponse to the huge changes in global demographicswhich see for the first time ever, the world’s urbanpopulation outstripping rural populations.Work on resilience must include a focus on creatingopportunities for young people whose future is threatenedby the failure of the current generation of leaders to tackleunemployment and other problems blighting the lives ofyoung people.Central to Oxfam’s work will be new ways of organizing atthe local level for lasting resilience to crisis and poverty.Accelerating actionIn rich and poor countries alike, politically active, organizedand accountable people are beginning to realize theirstrength and their capacity to challenge the vestedinterests that perpetuate the injustice of poverty. We wantto find and support innovative approaches to building amovement for change. Oxfam believes that people living inpoverty who claim their rights and make their voices heardconstitute an enormous source of hope for real change andgreater power in people’s lives.That means devoting a lot of effort to linking with others– social
THE POWER OF PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY OXFAM STRATEGIC PLAN, 2013 – 2019 3 1. foreword Foreword 5 Oxfam’s Vision 6 The power of people against poverty 7 Oxfam’s guiding principles 10 2. SIX GOALS TO CHANGE OUR WORLD Introduction 13 Goal 1: The Right to be Heard – People claiming their right to a better life 14
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