Oxfam America
For A Project To Make Public Finances More Accountable To Poor Communities In Developing Countries
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Amount$2,500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/20/2013
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant would support the first three years of Oxfam America’s new six-year program. Concentrating their effort in a set of target countries, Oxfam America will undertake policy research and advocacy to improve the quality of U.S. foreign assistance, ensure that extractive industry deals are more transparent and accountable to community priorities, and build the capacity of civil society partners to hold their governments accountable in making development expenditures that benefit the poor. Oxfam America works closely with the other Oxfam affiliates, partnering with Oxfam Australia to strengthen the network’s expertise in extractive industries, and testing their new model of strengthening local partners to oversee their governments’ spending.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.oxfamamerica.org
Address
226 Causeway Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support to Oxfam West Africa’s project enhancing women’s participation in extractives governance
Oxfam West Africa is a global organization seeking to combat inequality by mobilizing extractive industry revenues toward social spending. This grant aims to ensure that women and other marginalized groups are able to participate, influence, and have equal voice in decision making about how extractive industry revenues are reported, managed, and used in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. This grant will particularly focus on strengthening the advocacy efforts to push for 30% of development funds from extractive sector revenue to benefit the development and rights of women and girls. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for strengthening women’s participation in social accountability in the extractive sectors
Oxfam is a global organization working to end poverty by tackling its root causes and creating lasting solutions. This grant will allow Oxfam America to consolidate, ensure the sustainability of, and explore the potential scale-up of six years of collective work with partners to advance a feminist natural resource governance policy agenda in Vietnam, Peru, and Zambia. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of U.S. international climate finance
Oxfam America is a relief and development organization that prioritizes work on climate change because of the threats it poses to poor and vulnerable people. Oxfam America’s efforts to build deeper understanding of and support for U.S. government international climate investment programs will help maximize the ability of the U.S. to remain a participant of key bilateral and multilateral climate change programs. (Substrategy: Multilateral)
