Oxfam Emergency Response

The climate crisis, armed conflict, and deep-rooted inequality are making life much less stable and more fragile for millions of people around the world.

We are now responding to ongoing emergencies in a very complex landscape.

Oxfam’s Emergency Response Fund is a pot of money that ensures the affected communities and local partners we work with can respond at every stage of a disaster.

We work with local experts and have decades of experience – so together we are fast, flexible and effective in an emergency.

Our response includes:

• Before a crisis hits, working to assess risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios, as well as stockpile life-saving supplies ready to be shipped at a moment's notice.
• During an emergency, delivering vital supplies – clean water, sanitation kits, food and shelter – and distributing it to the people they know need it most.
• After the immediate danger passes, keeping funding and support going to help communities who are rebuilding their damaged livelihoods from the ground up.

Our approach is partner-led. This is because we know and respect that the communities we work with have incredible resilience, knowledge, and expertise.

For over 80 years, our support has focused on enabling communities to have the power, institutions, and resources to simultaneously:

• Stand up for their rights
• Rebuild with more resilience
• Lead on life-saving response during emergencies by delivering life essentials like water, sanitation, food and shelter

We partner with local experts, including the people who’ve been worst affected, to deliver the essentials.

With more than 80 years’ experience working in some of the most fragile situations around the world, we’ve reached millions of people with practical support while doing what we can to enable them to reclaim their rights and build peace. We do this thanks to the commitment of people like you.

We work in partnership with local organisations so that we can quickly adapt our response. We’re led by the communities who are most affected, listening, learning from and acting on their expertise both during and after armed conflict or extreme weather events.

Your support makes you a key partner – because each win is only possible when all of us work together.

In wars and natural disasters, people lose everything. With our partners, Oxfam provides essentials like clean water, sanitation and food.

This support includes:

• Direct cash payments, so that people can prioritise according to their needs.
• Clean water supplies, soap and toilets to prevent the spread of deadly diseases.
• Food packages to stop hunger from taking hold.

When you set up a regular donation to the Fund, you’re helping to keep our Emergency Fund and supplies topped up month after month, so local partners can be there for communities facing crisis at every moment.