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The Gaza Playbook
Briefing Note
The violations and atrocities that underpinned Israel’s genocide in Gaza are again on full display in Lebanon as Israeli forces roll out the same military playbook across the country during…
by Oxfam Canada | June 3, 2026
Results That Matter: Gender Equality Across the Nexus: Evidence from Humanitarian, Development and Peace Programming
Briefing Note
These companion learning briefs from Oxfam Canada make the case for integrating gender equality at the heart of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus.
by Oxfam Canada | May 28, 2026
Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement
- Briefing Note
- Report
This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and CARE, analyses data from 2021 and 2022 and finds that countries have been failing their climate finance commitments as the true…
by Oxfam Canada | October 6, 2025
Profiting from Pain
Briefing Note
Billionaire wealth has soared during the COVID-19 pandemic as companies in the food, pharma, energy, and tech sectors have cashed in. Meanwhile millions of people around the world are facing…
by Oxfam | May 22, 2022
Carbon inequality in 2030
Briefing Note
This is a brief that provides estimates of the impact of the Nationally Determined Contributions on the per capita consumption emissions of different global income groups in 2030 – revealing…
by Oxfam Canada | November 4, 2021
Oxfam Canada Climate Finance Briefing Note
Briefing Note
Oxfam Canada's recommendations on how Canada can approach our 2021 climate finance renewal to strengthen post-2020 climate finance commitments.
by Oxfam Canada | April 19, 2021
The Women's Sector At Risk of Devastation: Implications for Canada's COVID-19 Recovery
Briefing Note
After months of uncertainty and ongoing challenges, the women's sector is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts have labelled the pandemic-induced…
by Oxfam Canada | December 16, 2020
The year 2020 was meant to be a year for celebrating and accelerating progress on gender equality as world leaders marked the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform…
by Oxfam Canada | December 15, 2020
Testimony given by Oxfam Canada's Interim Executive Director, Kate Higgins as part of the FINA Committee Pre-Budget Consultations.
by Oxfam Canada | December 3, 2020
Testimony given by Oxfam Canada's Director of Policy & Campaigns, Diana Sarosi, to the Status of Women Committee on Women's Unpaid Work.
by Oxfam Canada | December 3, 2020
Investing in a Feminist Green COVID-19 Recovery
Briefing Note
Oxfam Canada's recommendations for Budget 2020 include investing in the care sector, social protections, decent work for women, feminist leadership, global recovery, the green economy and ending gender-based violence.
by Oxfam Canada | October 26, 2020
COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe.
by Oxfam | July 9, 2020
Guidance Note on Feminist MEAL
- Briefing Note
- Feminist MEAL
Oxfam Canada outlines our approach to Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL), which is based on the understanding that transformative change in unequal gender and power relations is complex…
by Oxfam Canada | June 10, 2020
Oxfam offers the following three urgent recommendations to mining companies, which should be implemented regardless of the location of their operations.
by Oxfam Canada | June 1, 2020
Federal Budget 2020 is the opportunity for Canada to signal its renewed commitment to meeting the targets set out in the Beijing Platform for Action through ambitious and targeted investments.
by Oxfam Canada | February 11, 2020
Advancing Canada's Global Leadership on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Briefing Note
- Report
Canada sits at a critical juncture in its efforts to advance gender equality and implement its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). This policy paper explores why and how Canada can…
by Oxfam Canada | April 13, 2019
As the world prepares to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 20th Anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325, governments, donors, United Nations…
by Oxfam Canada and NGO partners | April 4, 2019
This is a transcript of the testimony by Diana Sarosi, manager of policy at Oxfam Canada, to the Standing Committee on Finance regarding Bill C-86. Authors Diana Sarosi Manager of…
by Oxfam | November 10, 2018
Leadership on and Investments in a Feminist Future
Briefing Note
by | Credit: Abir Abdullah/Oxfam Budget 2018 took important steps in advancing Canada’s gender budgeting approach and made considerable investments to promote gender equality and women’s rights, at home and abroad.…
by Oxfam Canada | September 11, 2018
From the Technical to the Transformational: Applying Feminist M.E.L. principles to SRHR programming
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
SRHR programming can be transformational when the agency, autonomy, and choice of women and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions are prioritized, including through monitoring, evaluation…
by Oxfam | June 12, 2018
Building An Economy That Works for Women: Oxfam Canada’s Recommendations for Federal Budget 2018
Briefing Note
The federal government has taken significant steps over the past year and a half to tackle inequality and to promote women’s rights and gender equality. Despite considerable advancements, there are…
by Oxfam Canada | October 6, 2017
On the Brink
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
As famine takes hold in South Sudan and threatens to spread to northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen, world leaders must immediately step up to fully fund the United Nations’ appeal…
by Oxfam Canada | May 24, 2017
Race to the Bottom: World's Worst Tax Havens Exposed
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
Bermuda, the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg are among the world’s 15 worst corporate tax havens, according to this new Oxfam report. ‘Tax Battles,’ reveals how these tax havens are leading…
by Oxfam Canada | December 12, 2016
The risks of defending human rights: the rising tide of attacks against human rights activists in Latin America
Briefing Note
The rising tide of attacks against human rights activists: Oxfam is deeply concerned about the worsening levels of violence, murder and repression against the men and women defending human rights…
by Oxfam Canada | October 31, 2016
The global economy is not working for women. Gender inequality affects the jobs women have access to, the money they earn, and the way society values their work. Women who…
by Oxfam Canada | October 16, 2016
Led by a feminist Prime Minister, who campaigned on inclusive growth and women’s rights, Canada is well placed to become a global leader in tackling the twin struggles of gender…
by alvaro | October 12, 2016
Media Brief: A Poor Welcome from the World’s Wealthy
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
The number of people forced to flee their homes due to war, violence or persecution is at its highest level since records began.The conflict in Syria has been a major…
by Oxfam Canada | July 18, 2016
EU “hotspots” spread fear and doubt
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
On 18 April 2015, a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean caused the deaths of an estimated 800 people seeking to reach Italy. The EU responded to the tragedy by calling…
by Oxfam Canada | April 18, 2016
Syria Crisis Fair Share Analysis: 2016
Briefing Note
The number of people in need as a result of the conflict in Syria continues to rise, but the international aid response has failed to keep up. The donor conference…
by Oxfam Canada | February 1, 2016
Media briefing: Game-changers in the Paris climate deal
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
There is likely to be a climate deal in Paris. The emission pledges that more than 150 governments have put on the table this year show that global climate ambition is…
by Oxfam | November 25, 2015
I cut my aid-worker teeth on the famine of 1998 in Western Bahr el Ghazal in what was then southern Sudan – a region at war with the Khartoum regime…
by alvaro | July 14, 2015
Working For The Many - Public services fight inequality
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
Public services like health and education are one of the strongest weapons in the fight against inequality. They benefit everyone in society, but the poorest most of all. They mitigate…
by Oxfam Canada | April 3, 2014
Risk of reversal in progress on world hunger as climate change threatens food security
- Briefing Note
- Education Resource
The IPCC report is clear: the impacts of climate change on food are worse than previously estimated. The last time the IPCC reported in 2007 they gave mixed messages about…
by Oxfam Canada | March 31, 2014
Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and our global food system is woefully…
by Oxfam Canada | March 24, 2014
Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015
- Briefing Note
- Report
Violence against women (VAW) is the most widespread and persistent violation of human rights. According to a 2013 study from the World Health Organization (WHO), at least one in three…
by Oxfam Canada | March 11, 2014
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half…
by Oxfam Canada | January 20, 2014
To better understand the challenges that people face getting enough of the right food, Oxfam has compiled a global snapshot of 125 countries indicating the best and worst places to…
by Oxfam Canada | January 16, 2014
Adaptation and the $100 billion Commitment
Briefing Note
Private finance will struggle to meet the essential adaptation needs of poor and marginalized people; it overwhelmingly favours mitigation over adaptation; and it favours richer developing countries over less developed…
by alvaro | November 21, 2013
With long-awaited peace talks due to resume in Geneva in November 2013, this new momentum has the potential to turn into a breakthrough only if urgent and immediate action is…
by alvaro | October 22, 2013
Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people get the treatment they need without fear of falling into poverty. Unfortunately, in the name of UHC, some donors and developing country…
by alvaro | October 22, 2013
Increased transparency and consultation with beneficiaries, and a food security perspectiveacross government departments, would increase Canada’s effectiveness in addressingglobal food security. Report:Fertile Ground? Assessing CIDA’s investments in food and…
by alvaro | July 25, 2013