Publications

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…

ICDRC - Yakomina

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…

Inclusion Project 2 Brochure

The Inclusion Project - Phase 2 works with vulnerable communities and civil society to ensure continued access to essential river resources for their livelihoods, health and well-being, and is a…

Informal Sector Activities in Timor Leste

The Informal Sector in Timor-Leste has been severely impacted by COVID-19. This research by Timorese Organization Mata Dalan Institute (MDI), supported by Oxfam in Timor-Leste presents key findings…

GBM basin countries could save at least USD 14.2 billion annually through cooperation

Because of non-cooperation over shared waters governance in the GBM basin, the basin countries are losing more than USD 14.2 billion annually. Such a high cost of non-cooperation in one of the most…