Publications

Regional forum on carework in ASEAN countries 2023

Highlights from the Regional Forum on Carework in ASEAN countries

Discover more about the Regional Forum on Care Work in ASEAN Countries that occurred in Vientiane, Lao-PDR on July 27th and 28th, 2023. This forum played a pivotal role in advancing initiatives to…

woman from Pakistan using a hand pump

Water Dillemas

Oxfam‘s report Water Dilemmas highlights how a water security crisis, in large part driven by global heating from greenhouse gas emissions, will fuel hunger and disease and force more people to leave…

Farmer in Cambodia, holding greens

GRAISEA and FFA Launch New Policy Brief Calling for Gender Transformation and HRDD in ASEAN’S Agriculture Sector

Titled, Rights and Risk-Based Due Diligence in Financing the ASEAN Agriculture Sector, the new policy brief details regional-level insights and recommendations aimed at accelerating the…

Houses alongside the Comoro river in Dili.

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives…

First, Do No Harm: Examining the impact of the IFC’s support to private healthcare in India

This report examines the support to private healthcare provision in India by the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Despite supporting private healthcare in…

Sick Development

Development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in the Global South that block…

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Policy paper on Human Rights Due Diligence

Human rights due diligence (HRDD) refers to the process of a business assessing its actual and potential human rights impacts, integrating, and acting on those findings, tracking responses, and…

Unpaid Care Work

The literature on unpaid care work – and unpaid work generally – in Timor-Leste is relatively sparse, generally limited to small sections of research focused on other areas of community life. As such…

Civil Society Engagement in Fiscal and Economic Diversification Policy Environment

The objective of this research is to analyse and understand the role played by civil society in the area of fiscal and economic diversification policies, and to provide data to form a base of…

Increasing Youth Participation in Agriculture Sector in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste is facing a major challenge to be able to accommodate between 20,000 to 30,000 young people who enter the labour force each year. Currently, Timor-Leste’s economy cannot absorb these…