A journey through the life of a 24-year-old footwear factory worker.
After being in Cambodia for over 20 months, speaking with communities throughout the country and a whole lot of thinking, here are some reflections on Cambodia.
I recently visited Chumrun village in Takeo province – a village where Oxfam finished working in 2006 – to see how sustainable Oxfam’s projects had been. There were some great results.
Aid makes a real difference. It can save lives, put kids into school, and reduce poverty and suffering. But at the moment no one knows exactly how much money is being spent, where or on what. Join the campaign to Make Aid Transparent.
Most of us will be fortunate enough to never know disaster. Our lives will not be torn apart by flooding, famine, conflict. But the world is changing, and uncertainty confronts us all. Today, on World Humanitarian Day, we honour aid workers across the globe who are facing this uncertainty head-on.
Our friends over at the ONE campaign in the UK recently took to the streets to find out what the general public already knew about foreign aid spending.
The Leaders of the top eight economies in the world are coming to the G8 Summit in Deauville, France this year with a lot of explaining to do.
Today Oxfam published a report that looks at a worrying trend we’re seeing in international assistance: the militarization and politicisation of aid. The report entitled “Whose aid is it anyway?” looks at how key donors are now going down the route of allocating aid dollars heavily based on their military, security and geopolitical interests. It also looks at how donors are too often spending aid on security-driven projects that have proved expensive, ineffective and sometimes dangerous for their intended beneficiaries.
Newly launched, the ONE campaign in the US are running a new project called Living Proof, which aims to tell the real story of incredible progress being achieved by some of the world’s poorest people.