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Swot Analysis Of Oxfam

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Determining the strengths and weaknesses of Oxfam requires that you evaluate the global impact and outcomes of the organizations programs. Non-government organizations (NGOs) work locally and internationally and receive millions and I am sure billions of dollars in donations to improve the conditions for the poor and underserved. Currently, Oxfam is comprised of 17 organizations in approximately 94 countries (Oxfam GB, 2015). The name “Oxfam” comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942, the original mission was a campaign for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War. Although, funding for …show more content…

Of the 26 projects in various categories being evaluated, included 12 community based projects, 9 policy interventions, and 5 humanitarian projects. Claire Hutchings, Oxfam GB Head of Programme Quality, co-authored with Karl Hughes “Can we obtain the required rigor without randomization? Oxfam GB 's non-experimental Global Performance Framework (Hughes & Hutchings, 2011).” I commend Oxfam for their commitment to transparency and after reviewing th7/e report was surprised that both favorable and unfavorable results were included and published. Overall Oxfam’s interventions have made things better, but there is room for improvement and some projects with low or negative impact need to be evaluated to determine if those resources should be transferred to another project. However after reading the review I believe the question of how great the cost to do beneficial work not fully is addressed. However, the report does do a good job of demonstrating the on average Oxfam has made a positive impact in the world. The 2011 report was the first attempt by Oxfam to investigate their effectiveness. Hopefully, this will not be the last attempt by Oxfam to evaluate how to use its money …show more content…

Like many other NGO’s Oxfam can “recommend” changes to laws and policies but unable to inflict any punishment on any nation or corporation. However, Oxfam and other NGO’s contribute to reduction in poverty initiatives, especially Oxfam who focused earlier this year on wealth inequality. Oxfam claims the Richest 1% have most of the wealth in the world. Additionally Oxfam reported the richest 85 people in the world own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 50% of the world’s population (Oxfam, 2014). Oxfam International is clearly an outstanding NGO, however if the focused on their original mission of poverty/hunger and use the 1.25 billion in income to fight something they can impact like hunger and focus less on shaming wealthy about inequality (Morton,

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