Government Spending Watch, a site that collates MDG spending, launches today. Guppi Bola and Rachel Bladon explain how this powerful tool will be critical in holding governments to account....
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The human cost of Syria's conflict has risen beyond all expectations. There are already more than 1.3 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries. Inside Syria itself, 6.8 million people struggle in urgent need of assistance. As we publish a new briefing note on the crisis, Ed Cairns describes how, as the numbers grow, the money to help some of those refugees and displaced people is running out.
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For its size, the humanitarian response to the Upper Nile State refugee crisis was one of the most expensive in the world, but what did it look like on the ground? Away from the chaos of flooding and mismanagement that plagued the humanitarian agencies working there, what has it been like for the refugees themselves? From her point of view as Oxfam's Humanitarian Policy Adviser in
Maban County, Sultana Begum gives...
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Humanitarianism has evolved in the 70 years since Oxfam was first formed in response to famine in war-torn Europe. Ed Cairns traces this change and notes that it must continue to change to meet the needs of the future.
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Gregory Adam's, Director of Aid Effectiveness at Oxfam America introduces Oxfam's new Briefing Busan in a Nutshell: What next for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation?
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As Oxfam GB publishes its second batch of IATI-compliant data, Paul Clough explains our motivation for signing up to the transparency initiative.
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Hundreds of people continue to arrive each day in Kibati. 2 million people are now displaced across the DRC; the highest figure the country has seen since 2009.
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Ahead of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Oxfam has become one of the first INGOs to publish our data to IATI, the International Aid Transparency Initiative standard. Paul Clough, Oxfam GB's Head of International Finance talks about our decision to publish in this way and looks at the next steps over the coming months.
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