2018-19: Reaching People. Empowering Lives.

One more year has gone by and it’s time for us to share our last year’s journey with you all 2018-19 witnessed a steep rise in humanitarian emergencies across India. Oxfam India responded in six states including Kerala, Assam, Karnataka, Manipur, Tripura and Odisha as part of its humanitarian mandate, reaching out to approximately 30,000 people directly and 2 lakh people indirectly. Our recovery and response strategy focused on both providing immediate and sustainable support to disaster-affected communities.

2018-19 was a year when we looked hard at widening inequalities in jobs and wages through the release of the second edition of our inequality report ‘Mind the Gap: The State of Employment in India’. Oxfam India in collaboration with its partners reached out to over 100,000 people on the issue of violence against women and girls. This year witnessed an exceptional expansion of our work on private sector engagement as a result of which, Oxfam India became a member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Core Group on Business and Human Rights. This was a huge boost to our Private Sector Engagement work which is just about five-years old.

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