Oxfam in Zambia has been working on fiscal justice and fighting inequality within the country. These themes have become even more important in the context of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The Zambia team is involved in the Corona National Response Meetings and took part in a closed door meeting with the […]

  On June 30th, 2020, the South Africa team launched the report ‘The Right to Dignified Healthcare Work is a Right to Dignified Healthcare for all’, that focuses on inequality in the healthcare sector. This report is one of the products that was developed as part of Oxfam South Africa’s digital campaign “#Caring4Carers” around South Africa’s […]

The Solomon Islands team and their partners have taken part in an online training to increase their capacity on social accountability approaches. The training focused on gender-responsive budgeting and was tailored and contextualized to the pacific context. Over the course of a few weeks, the team took part in multiple sessions of 1,5 – 2 […]

A workshop with the Uganda team was organized to refine their influencing strategy and co-create their public campaign around health and taxation. This was described in an earlier FESM Solution. The campaign has launched in February and is still making noise! The workshop had resulted in a draft plan to deliver Uganda’s campaign, and FESM […]

In November 2019, a five-day workshop was organized in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for countries in the region to deepen their understanding of tax analysis and national advocacy. Colleagues from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines all took part in the workshop to familiarize themselves with the new Fair Tax Monitor methodology […]

The Myanmar team had produced an Inequality report which was long ready to be published. However, because of sensitive political timing and small space for civil societies to share a critical voice, the report had not been launched yet. Ideally, the team wanted to launch the report along with the Asia Inequality report. What they […]

In Kenya, a project on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) was already underway. The project focused on four points: governments, the mobilization of women in budgeting processes, organizing civil society around GRB tools and social accountability for budget monitoring and auditing processes. Although some activities have already been implemented, such as helping women participate in the […]

Oxfam in Uganda and its partners were in need of support to refine their influencing strategy and to co-create their public campaign around health and taxation. The Fair Even it Up Support Mechanism matched two of its advisors with the team in Uganda. The support resulted in a successful workshop that leads to concrete plans. […]

With the arrival of a new government in Zimbabwe, the citizens were eager for change. Oxfam Zimbabwe seized this opportunity to develop its national inequality report. The Zimbabwe inequality report project was undertaken by the country team with the help of local consultants. In the early stages of the project, the team identified a need […]

In Ghana, the country team decided to introduce a focus on health and education into their advocacy work in order to achieve greater equality in those sectors. In this effort, the Ghana team received support from advisers through the Fair-Even it Up Support Mechanism to develop the country inequality report and identify key advocacy strategies. […]

An opportunity opened up for Laos to deepen their work on the topic of gender responsive budgeting. The team needed support on a number of issues including short-term technical support for the development of their gender responsive budgeting concept note for an EU call and support with facilitating a programme development workshop. FESM facilitated the […]

The Asia regional platform was working with different universities in the region on a project to review successful inequality programs introduced by governments in Asia. Their challenge for FESM was to find support from thematic experts and policy leads across Oxfam within a short timeframe. Our Fair-Even it Up Support Mechanism facilitated matching and coordination […]