Oxfam’s programmes are designed to drive systemic change for communities across the Pacific and beyond.
Oxfam supports development programmes in Laos, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. In the 2023 fiscal year, these programmes reached at least 17,468 people.
Kōtui
The Kōtui programme is designed to drive systemic change for vulnerable and marginalised women facing climate breakdown and disasters. The projects included in the Kōtui programme aim to improve women’s access to resources and opportunities and make sure that the governance systems that affect them include women and their priorities.
Kōtui seeks two long-term outcomes: first governance systems affecting resilience are more inclusive, accountable and gender-responsive. Secondly, women have more equitable access
to resources and opportunities that matter to their resilience and wellbeing
Learn more here.
Lao PDR
This project focused on vulnerable communities, especially women, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Vientiane, Oudomxay, Xayaburi and Bokeo Province.
Papua New Guinea
Our goal is to improve health, resilience, and quality of life for remote and vulnerable communities, particularly women and children, in rural Papua New Guinea.
Solomon Islands
Women in Solomon Islands have little influence on the critical decisions that directly impact their lives because they are not often included in decision-making groups or processes.
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste accesses significant amounts of climate finance, yet women and other vulnerable groups in Timor-Leste have not yet been able to adequately access or benefit from climate finance.
Timor-Leste
This project will drive work on the distribution of land rights information at the community level, alongside broader women’s empowerment work.
Timor-Leste
This initiative aims to strengthen the climate change adaptation capacities of households and communities in rural Timor- Leste
Tuvalu
The islands of Tuvalu are extremely low-lying and sea level rise is a direct threat to lives, assets, livelihoods and ecosystems. Oxfam is helping to make climate change adaptation and resilience policy settings more inclusive and equitable.
Other programmes include:
- Rohingya refugee programming
- Enhancing Youth Employment and Livelihoods Vanuatu (EYEL)
- UnBlocked Cash Vanuatu
