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Development programmes

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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.

Map showing areas that Kotui is active in

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.

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.

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.

Timor-Leste

This project will drive work on the distribution of land rights information at the community level, alongside broader women’s empowerment work.

Other programmes include: