Grassroots groups are helping improve the living and working conditions of hundreds of thousands of low-income women in urban informal settlements across India. By organising and influencing local service providers, …
A fairer tax system is essential to ‘building back better’
Robert PalmerTax Justice UK shares Oxfam’s commitment to tackling inequality, eradicating poverty and standing up for those who typically struggle to get their voices heard. The need to address these issues …
Change is all about the narrative
Caroline CassidyIt’s always useful when someone puts together a summary and synthesis of a larger piece of work. Thanks to Caroline Cassidy who put this blog together, inspired by Narrative Power …
Transformative impact at scale in Senegal
Diatou Ndiaye and Rose DiopThe Inspiring Better Futures case studies series shares insights from people who are successfully creating better futures even against the odds in some of the world’s toughest contexts in lower-income countries. All have achieved transformative impact at scale by tackling underlying structural causes of the …
Inspiring Radically Better Futures
Irene Guijt and Ruth MayneThe Inspiring Better Futures case study series is a collective endeavour with contributions from many people around the world. Hope has been quite the buzzword in 2020. And hope is …
Ready to adapt: resilient women entrepreneurs in the pandemic
Aissa Boodhoo, Shekhar Anand and Ahmed ElassalUN Women estimates that during the first month of the pandemic, informal workers lost an average of 60 percent of their income: with losses as high as 81% in sub-Saharan …
3 things we learnt from the practice of 9 influencing networks
Saskia Veen and Marieke MeeskeMarieke Meeske and Saskia van Veen share some of the learning from a recently published book by Oxfam Novib called Beating the Drum: Stories of Influencing Networks. The book explores …
What really influences our behaviours?
Thomas Dunmore Rodriguez and Ruth MayneWe are re-running this blog in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It was originally published in 2019. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the importance of individuals adopting particular behaviours for …
