At the second meeting on 11 December it was reported that the Hon. Secretary, Miss Macnamara, had resigned. The Chairman introduced the new Hon. Secretary, Cecil Jackson-Cole. Jackson-Cole, businessman and philanthropist, later the founder of charities including Help the Aged and Action Aid, became the driving force behind the work of the Committee by various means including his innovative use of advertising.
He continued as Hon. Secretary and later Secretary Emeritus with the Committee Oxfam from until his death in This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Although the organization today is a very different place—one that has grown and changed to address both the times and the changing needs of developing countries—several things have remained steadfast: the commitment to addressing issues of injustice and poverty, and the set of core values that has informed our work—legacies passed down through three decades of staff and board members.
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Email: Please enter a valid email address. Mobile phone number: Please enter a valid mobile phone number. Sign up Continue. Error code: GLB There was an error processing your form. Oxfam America resolved that its appeals for support would avoid promoting a condescending attitude toward poor people; communications would be thought-provoking rather than emotional. Oxfam France was founded in under the name "Agir ici pour un monde solidaire" Act here for a unified world.
Its work was already based on campaign and advocacy, both of which were rare in France at the time. Agir ici became an observer member of Oxfam in , and a fully-fledged member in Oxfam France's work in advocacy and research focuses on Economic Justice especially tax revenue in developing countries, ODA, tax heavens and innovative financing , Agriculture speculation and food prizes, biofuels , land grabbing , trade rules , protecting civilians, and health. Oxfam France is funded mostly by public donations and by institutional donors.
It has five second-hand shops: [23] three bookshops two in Paris, one in Lille , a clothes shop in Lille and a shop in Strasbourg. Oxfam Germany has its beginnings in an initiative by concerned private citizens who in opened a secondhand shop in Bonn modelled on the idea of the British charity shops. While not officially associated with Oxfam, the shop was staffed by volunteers and sold donated goods, with all proceeds given to projects run by Oxfam GB. A second shop, following the same model, was opened in Cologne in Oxfam officially came to Germany in with the foundation of the charitable Oxfam Deutschland e.
Oxfam Germany became a full affiliate of Oxfam International in As of March , Oxfam was operating 42 charity shops in 28 German cities, including five Oxfam bookshops and three fashion boutiques. According to Oxfam Germany website, there are 2, volunteers in those shops. IBIS was founded as an independent organization in in Denmark, but has its roots in the Danish department of World University Service and has been active since the initially mainly against apartheid and similar situations in other southern African nations.
Oxfam Hong Kong began in , when volunteers came together, opened a second-hand shop, and raised funds for anti-poverty projects around the world. Oxfam's involvement in India began when money was granted in to fight famine in Bihar. Bihar at the time was one of the poorest and most populated states in India. Bihar and famine would bring Oxfam back to India in to address drought due to bad monsoons. Bihar held a population of 53 million, of which 40 million relied on subsistence farming to live.
It is estimated that, over the course of the droughts and famines, 2, tons of milk was bought by Oxfam and at the height of this was feeding over , starving children and mothers. Oxfam India was established on 1 September under section 25 of the Companies Act, as a non profitable organization with its head office in Delhi and is now a member of Oxfam International Confederation.
This was marked by Oxfam's 60th year in India. Oxfam International awareness raising event on climate change The Oxfam International Secretariat OIS leads, facilitates, and supports collaboration between the Oxfam affiliates to increase Oxfam's impact on poverty and injustice through advocacy campaigns, development programmes and emergency response.
The Affiliates' Chairs are voting members and are non-remunerated. The Board also elects the Deputy Chair and Treasurer from among its voting members. The Board is responsible for ensuring that Oxfam International is accountable, transparent, and fit for purpose.
The constitution and Strategic Plan are also approved at Board level. The Board takes recommendations from Executive Directors and ensures that the Confederation is working to its agreed aims. A number of subcommittees with expert members are also mandated by the Board to assist with specific issues. Oxfam International's official languages are English, French and Spanish; English is the working language. Ahead of the World Economic Forum Oxfam published its report about wealth concentration : "The combined wealth of the world's richest 1 percent will overtake that of everyone else by next year [] given the current trend of rising inequality.
Oxfam has four main focuses for its resources. Economic Justice focuses on making agriculture work for farmers and agricultural labourers living in poverty and vulnerable circumstances, fairer trade rules for poor countries, and reducing the impact of climate change and energy shocks.
Oxfam relief supplies outside the Siginon warehouse in Nairobi , Kenya. Essential Services focuses on; demanding that national governments fulfil their responsibilities for equitable delivery of good quality health, education, water, and sanitation, supporting civil society organizations and alliances to hold governments accountable for the delivery of these services, and ensuring better policies and more funding from rich countries and international institutions, as well as make sure they honour existing commitments on aid and debt reduction.
Rights in Crisis focuses on improving the ability to deliver better protection and greater assistance, through improving our competencies and capacities, working with and through local organizations, and particularly strengthen the role of women, changing policies and practices of the international humanitarian system to deliver better protection and greater assistance, and working within the framework of human security, with a greater focus on preventing conflict, peace-building , reconciliation and longer-term development.
Gender Justice focuses on supporting women's leadership at all levels to achieve greater power in decision-making and greater control over their lives, increasing the number of women receiving an education two-thirds of all children denied school are girls , to acquire functional literacy skills so they can work, [37] working to end gender-based violence by changing ideas, attitudes and beliefs of men and women that permit violence against women, and strengthening Oxfam's own learning and capacities on gender to ensure that gender justice is achieved in all our work.
Oxfam has numerous shops all over the world, which sell many fair-trade and donated items. They opened their first charity shop in , [38] although trading began in The proceeds from these usually get paid to different charities or are used to further Oxfam's relief efforts around the globe.
Plaque attached to the original Oxfam shop at 17 Broad Street, Oxford. Much of their stock still comes from public donations but they currently also sell fair trade products from developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America, including handcrafts, books, music CDs and instruments, clothing, toys, food and ethnic creations.
These objects are brought to the public through fair trade to help boost the quality of life of their producers and surrounding communities. Oxfam has over 1, shops worldwide. Oxfam Germany has 45 shops including specialist book shops; Oxfam France shops sell books and fair trade products and Oxfam Hong Kong has 2 shops selling donated goods and fair trade products.
Of the Oxfam charity shops around the UK, around are specialist bookshops or book and music shops. Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Performers at the Oxjam fundraising event in Edinburgh. Oxfam has a number of successful fundraising channels in addition to its shops. Over half a million people in the UK make a regular financial contribution towards its work, and vital funds are received from gifts left to the organization in people's wills.
Many London Marathon [42] competitors run to raise money for Oxfam, and Oxfam also receives funds in return for providing and organising volunteer stewards at festivals such as Glastonbury.
Christopher McCandless , the subject of the book and film Into the Wild , donated his life savings to Oxfam before leaving society for the Alaskan wilderness. In August Arctic Monkeys released a 7-inch vinyl version of their new single "Crying Lightning" exclusively through Oxfam shops, with proceeds going to the charity. Recently Oxfam India is emerging as a successful fundraising unit, it is mainly with the help of always motivated team and the Resource Mobilization Heads.
Every October, Oxfam also holds the Oxjam music festival across the UK to raise funds for its activities. In , Oxfam started the Behind the Brands project, "to provide people who buy and enjoy these products with the information they need to hold the Big 10 [food and beverage companies] to account for what happens in their supply chains".
The Scorecard consists of seven categories, being: [46]. The table below provides an overview of the evolution of the scores in percentage : [47]. Make Trade Fair is a campaign organized by Oxfam International that focuses on the elimination of several trade practices:. Omaar and de Waal, in Food and Power in Sudan , [53] comment, "the s have seen growing pressure for humanitarian institutions to become more accountable.
There has been a succession of reviews of major operations, growing in independence and criticism. In response to these criticisms Oxfam and others launched the Sphere Project , an initiative which aims to "improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by disasters", to "develop a set of minimum standards in cure areas of humanitarian assistance" and to introduce an element of accountability which had previously been lacking.
In , the magazine New Internationalist described Oxfam as a "Big International Non-Government Organisation BINGO ", having a corporate-style, undemocratic internal structure, and addressing the symptoms rather than the causes of international poverty — especially by acquiescing to neoliberal economics and even taking over roles conventionally filled by national governments.
In an article for Columbia Journalism Review , [58] journalist Karen Rothmyer accused NGOs in general and Oxfam in particular of being unduly influenced by the priorities of the media, of providing inaccurate information to the press "stories featuring aid projects often rely on dubious numbers provided by the organisations" and of perpetuating negative stereotypes which "have the potential to influence policy".
She drew on earlier work by journalist Lauren Gelfand, who had taken a year away from journalism to work for Oxfam; "A lot of what Oxfam does is to sustain Oxfam" and Linda Polman, author of the Crisis Caravan; "Aid organisations are businesses dressed up like Mother Theresa.
Ethiopia and Oxfam America urged Starbucks to sign a licensing agreement with Ethiopia to help boost prices paid to farmers. At issue was Starbucks' use of Ethiopia's famed coffee brands—Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar—that generate high margins for Starbucks and cost consumers a premium, yet generated very low prices to Ethiopian farmers.
Robert Nelson, the head of the NCA, added that his organization initiated the opposition for economic reasons, "For the U. This particular scheme is going to hurt the Ethiopian coffee farmers economically. Facing more than 90, letters of concern, Starbucks had placed pamphlets in its stores accusing Oxfam of "misleading behavior" and insisting that its "campaign need[s] to stop". On 7 November, The Economist derided Oxfam's "simplistic" stance and Ethiopia's "economically illiterate" government, arguing that Starbucks' and Illy 's standards-based approach would ultimately benefit farmers more.
Starbucks, as part of the deal, also was set to market Ethiopian coffee during two promotional periods in Brandon Borrman, a Starbucks spokesman, said the announcement is "another development" in the relationship with Ethiopia and a way to raise the profile of Ethiopian coffee around the world.
Seth Petchers, an Oxfam spokesman, said the deal sounds like a "useful step" as long as farmers are benefiting, and it's a big step from a year ago when Starbucks "wasn't engaging directly with Ethiopians on adding value to their coffee". On 28 April an Australian think tank , the Institute of Public Affairs , lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission accusing Oxfam of misleading or deceptive conduct under the Trade Practices Act in its promotion of Fairtrade coffee.
The complaint was subsequently dismissed by the Commission. Oxfam endorses the two-state solution and wants Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip and dismantle all of the Israeli settlement infrastructure.
The project, Grow-Tatzmiach, includes sending 25 people to an activist training programme to help fight global hunger. In exchange for partnering, Oxfam has agreed not to "call for a boycott of Israeli goods or to support groups that do so, and will not partner with organizations that advocate violence or oppose a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ". Despite this agreement, there are still those on both sides who object to this project.
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