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Oxfam International Secretariat
- Organization type:Non-Governmental Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.oxfam.org/en/
- Address: Oxfam International Secretariat, Suite 20, 266 Banbury Road
- Postal Code: OX2 7DL
- City: Oxford
- Country: United Kingdom
- Telephone: +44 1865339100
- Fax: +44 1865339101
- Email: information@oxfaminternational.org
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
Oxfam International is a confederation of 15 organizations working together in over 90 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. Each organization (Affiliate) works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives.
- 40 per cent drop in climate change adaptation funding must prompt action at key meetings next week
4 Apr 2013 - Oxfam report: Climate ‘fiscal cliff’ looms for developing countries if leaders come to Doha with no new money
25 Nov 2012 - Oxfam: Millions more will go hungry as world struggles to respond to unprecedented food crises and sharply rising prices
9 Aug 2012 - 'In Niger, more than 6 million people face food shortages' - Oxfam
12 Mar 2012 - Oxfam: 'Thousands of lives and millions of pounds lost due to late response to food crisis in East Africa'
18 Jan 2012 - Philippines: Typhoon Sendong - A disaster that waited to happen
20 Dec 2011 - Oxfam: Extreme weather endangers food security worldwide
28 Nov 2011 - Oxfam: Lazy labelling threatens effective disaster risk reduction
13 Oct 2011 - Oxfam: Floods in Pakistan demonstrate that commitments made six years ago to save lives have not been met
8 Oct 2011 - Oxfam: Eighteen months after the earthquake in Haiti
5 Aug 2011 - Climate Wise Women give first-hand account of the impact of climate change
12 Apr 2011 - A-FAB: ASEAN must demonstrate leadership in UN climate negotiations
4 Apr 2011 - UNISDR: Pakistan cannot risk its future, lives of people, by being ill-prepared
22 Feb 2011 - Six months later, Pakistan’s flood disaster threatens to worsen - Oxfam
26 Jan 2011 - Oxfam: Last minute package breathes life into UN Climate Talks
11 Dec 2010 - Oxfam: In pictures - women fighting climate change
8 Dec 2010 - Oxfam and WFP announce R4 partnership for resilient livelihoods in a changing climate
4 Dec 2010 - Why I’m going to Cancun - Op-ed
30 Nov 2010 - Guardian UK: A climate journey - The Andes: Retreat of the glaciers
26 Nov 2010 - Pakistan floods one month on: Catastrophe increases but planning for reconstruction must begin
29 Aug 2010 - Survey shows Haiti camps vulnerable to major hurricane damage
1 Jun 2010 - Oxfam: Funding call for Myanmar recovery two years after Cyclone Nargis
2 May 2010 - Ethiopia: Climate change increasing poverty and vulnerability
22 Apr 2010 - Oxfam: Hurricanes, hunger and homelessness for the people of Haiti if world leaders do not act against climate change
27 Nov 2009 - Oxfam: Bolivia battered on five fronts by climate change
4 Nov 2009 - Oxfam: How can poor countries adapt to a changing climate?
2 Nov 2009 - Oxfam: Climate change is pushing Malawi further into poverty - women are hit worst
17 Jun 2009 - Oxfam: Finance ministers must find funds to secure climate deal
8 Jun 2009 - Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
20 Apr 2009 - Oxfam: Innovative financing mechanisms can fund climate change adaptation needs
2 Dec 2008 - Disasters caused by human failures not nature, says Oxfam
10 Apr 2008 - El Salvador: Holding onto the mangroves
Statements & Presentations
- The post hyogo framework: what’s next for disaster risk reduction?
2013 - Country document for Bolivia, 2012 / Documento de país DIPECHO, Bolivia 2012
2012 - Mainstreaming of DRR into GoB schemes on water and sanitation: gap analysis and way forward
2012 - The looming climate ‘fiscal cliff’: an evaluation of fast start finance and its lessons for the future
2012 - Recognise the strength of women and girls in reducing disaster risks: stories from Viet Nam
2012 - A dangerous delay: the cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
2012 - Weathering change in Timor-Leste: participatory action research in Timor-Leste identifying climate change and associated impacts experienced at the community level
2012 - Extreme weather endangers food security - 2010-11: A grim foretaste of future suffering and hunger?
2011 - Review of climate change adaptation practices in South Asia
2011 - Overcoming the barriers: how to ensure future food production under climate change in southern Africa
2011 - WASH and DRR integration during a flood response, Cordoba, Colombia
2011 - Integrating disaster risk reduction in livelihoods programming in the Northwest of Nicaragua
2011 - Evolving traditions: an inter-cultural approach to food security, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction by Miskitu and Mayangna communities in Nicaragua
2011 - A charter to end extreme hunger
2011 - Briefing on the Horn of Africa drought 2011: disaster risk reduction – fundamental to saving lives and reducing poverty
2011 - Disaster risk reduction in the drylands of the horn of Africa
2011 - Briefing on the Horn of Africa drought: climate change and future impacts on food security
2011 - Ready or not: Pakistan’s resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
2011 - Growing a better future: food justice in a resource-constrained world
2011 - Adapting for a green economy: companies, communities and climate change
2011 - Owning adaptation: country-level governance of climate adaptation finance
2011 - Sistematización de experiencias de integración de reducción de riesgos de desastres en proyectos de medios de vida
2011 - Six months into the floods: resetting Pakistan's priorities through reconstruction
2011 - Nepal disaster report: the hazardscape and vulnerability
2010 - Hunger in the Sahel: a permanent emergency?
2010 - Review and systematization of disaster preparedness experiences in urban areas in the Caribbean region
2010 - Integrating disaster risk reduction and adaptation into rural livelihood programming: a guide for Oxfam staff and partners in Southeast Asia
2010 - Financing adaptation or funding chaos? Adaptation, finance and Philippine climate policy
2010 - Building local capacities for disaster response and risk reduction
2010 - Climate change adaptation: enabling people living in poverty to adapt
2010 - The rain doesn’t come on time anymore: poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia
2010 - Haitians talk about rebuilding the country after the January 12, 2010 earthquake
2010 - Haiti: a once-in-a-century chance for change
2010 - Reconstructing Haiti
2010 - Reaching tipping point? Climate change and poverty in Tajikistan
2010 - Conference proceedings: 5th National conference community based disaster risk reduction
2009 - People-centered resilience: working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
2009 - Haiti: a gathering storm
2009 - Bolivia, climate change poverty and adaptation
2009 - Climate change adaptation: enabling people living in poverty to adapt (discussion paper)
2009 - Band aids and beyond tackling disasters in Ethiopia 25 years after the famine
2009 - Climate change and gender justice
2009 - Beyond aid: ensuring adaptation to climate change works for the poor
2009 - Oxfam disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation resources: case study
2009 - The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi
2009 - Suffering the science: climate change, people, and poverty
2009 - Even the himalayas have stopped smiling: climate change, poverty and adaptation in Nepal
2009 - The right to survive in a changing climate
2009 - Forecasting the numbers of people affected annually by natural disasters up to 2015
2009 - The right to survive: the humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
2009 - ENOS variabilidad climática y riesgo de desabre en las Américas: procesos, patrones y gestión
2008 - Turning up the heat climate change and poverty in Uganda
2008 - Climate change, development and energy problems in South Africa: another world is possible
2008 - Russia and neighbouring countries: environmental, economic and social impacts of climate change
2008 - Drought management considerations for climate change adaptation: focus on the Mekong region, Cambodia, Svay Rieng province
2008 - Drought management considerations for climate change adaptation: focus on the Mekong region, Viet Nam, Ninh Thuan province
2008 - After the cyclone: lessons from a disaster
2008 - Cuba: paradigma en la reducción de riesgo de desastres
2008 - Rethinking disasters: why death and destruction is not nature's fault but human failure
2008 - Climate alarm: disasters increase as climate change bites
2007 - Sink or swim: why disaster risk reduction is central to surviving floods in South Asia
2007 - Oxfam International tsunami fund: second year report
2006 - A mountain to climb
2005 - The tsunami's impact on women, Oxfam briefing note
2005 - The Asian tsunami: the challenge after the Jakarta summit, Oxfam briefing note
2005 - The Asian tsunami: three weeks on, Oxfam briefing note
2005 - Cuba, weathering the storm: lessons in risk reduction from Cuba
2004 - Urban vulnerability: perspectives from Southern Africa
2002
- Vanuatu: Panel discussion on gender based violence in humanitarian action on the International Day for Disaster Reduction
13 Oct 2012 - Georgia: DIPECHO partners celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction
12 Oct 2012 - Solomon Islands: Celabration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction
12 Oct 2012 - Vanuatu: Gender and gender based violence in humanitarian action workshop for the International Day for Disaster Reduction
09-12 Oct 2012 - International Day for Disaster Reduction celebration in Ethiopia
03-12 Oct 2012 - Disaster risk reduction in Armenia
25 Jun 2012 - International DRR day celebration in Myanmar
13 Oct 2011 - International disaster reduction day & workshop
08 Oct 2008
- Introduction to climate change adaptation: a learning companion
2011 - Women leadership in disaster risk management
2011 - Global express: the rapid response information series for schools on world events in the news - tsunami
2005 - Up in smoke? Threats from, and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development
2004 - Learning about livelihoods
2002
- Regional sustainable livelihoods lead
5 Sep 2012 - Programme officer (DRR and humanitarian)
18 Jul 2012 - Humanitarian programme manager for Haiti
28 Apr 2012 - Disaster risk reduction coordinator
8 Jul 2011 - Evaluator of Oxfam's disaster risk reduction programme in the South Caucasus
17 Jun 2011 - Programme manager - Humanitarian Response and Preparedness (HRP)
16 Mar 2011 - Disaster risk reduction (DRR) coordinator
11 Mar 2011 - Consultant – Development of Oxfam international humanitarian operational plan in Indonesia
26 Feb 2010 - Lead consultant: Do’s and don’ts in DRR in Indonesia - Practical review of DRR investment results in recent natural disasters in Indonesia
26 Feb 2010 - Oxfam international contingency planning and preparedness coordinator, C2 National plus
15 Jan 2010 - Disaster risk reduction & emergency response manager
11 Jul 2008 - Disaster risk reduction trainer
22 Feb 2008 - Sustainable livelihoods and food security program coordinator
27 Oct 2007
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