Community Services: An Analysis of Oxfam's Function and Impact

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Oxfam's community services, detailing its functioning, purpose, and objectives. It explores Oxfam's mission to combat poverty and inequality on a global scale, examining its organizational structure, theoretical underpinnings from a functionalist perspective, and the processes and services it provides. The report delves into Oxfam's six-sided tactics, which include empowering people, promoting gender equality, providing aid during disasters, advocating for fair resource distribution, addressing hunger, and supporting education and healthcare. Furthermore, the report analyzes Oxfam's diverse funding sources, including contributions from governments, international organizations, and public appeals. The report also highlights Oxfam's strategic partnerships and the allocation of funds towards development programs and humanitarian efforts. Overall, the report underscores Oxfam's commitment to sustainable development, social justice, and the empowerment of disadvantaged communities.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
FUNCTIONING PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE...........................................................................3
THEORETICAL UNDERPINS......................................................................................................4
PROCESS AND SERVICES..........................................................................................................5
FUNDING SOURCES....................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCING..............................................................................................................................8

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INTRODUCTION
Oxfam is a collaboration of twenty non-governmental organizations, which works
together to end poverty at international level (92 countries). Headquarter of Oxfam is located in
Oxford, England, and founded in 1942 (Oxfamamerica.org, 2018). In 1963, Oxfam was initially
starts from Canada. Winnie Byanyima is the Executive Director of Oxfam international, with the
vision of – World without poverty (Oxfam International, 2018).
Oxfam works with partner organizations for disadvantaged citizens to end the injustices
that cause poverty. The state of poverty is not the same for every person. This may contrasts by
varying over the consumption level of individual in various assorted nation by the market
exchange rate. Since cross-nations have their own particular distinctive purchasing power.
Sometimes extremely complicated causes are the main problem with poverty.
(Source: Oxfamamerica.org, 2018)

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FUNCTIONING PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE
Twelve Chair members and twelve Board of Directors administer the Oxfam
International, where six of Chairs members and three of Directors are women. Oxfam Australia
is self-regulating, community-based support and development organization. It conducts long-run
development programs and stays available for all the occurring emergencies. It also does the
campaigning to upgrade the living standard of underprivileged people of this world. Oxfam
focuses on disadvantaged communities by providing free donations, security from war and
disasters, access to social services, strong participation in decision-making, equality in human
rights and escalate social status.
Three billion people of the world population lives on less than $2.50 a day. According to
the report of UNICEF, 22,000 children die every day due to poverty. (Do something.org, 2018).
Oxfam is carrying a strong vision, where they want to see the world without poverty. In addition,
people should be appreciated and treated equally, as a voter availing their free rights, and can
make strong impact on those decisions, which affects their life (Oxfam International, 2018).
Oxfam is devoted to generating the long-run solutions to overcome inequality and
poverty among the underprivileged citizens. Oxfam conducts such programs, which combines
basic human rights, ecological sustainable development, and high-level education for
communities. It also gives sponsorship support and encouragement, solving conflicts and
providing best assistance to the affected ones.
For the entire world, Oxfam wisely looks forward and works in same manner so that
people can live with their self-esteem. They can meet with their basic needs, feel respected and
valued in the society and can have strong positive control on their own lives. Oxfam is sensibly
making sustainable development program. Like - giving assistance for all the uncertain
emergencies, educational research, and organize certain campaigns to make this world more
unbiased and impartial for the underprivileged people. Some prime objectives, which Oxfam
thinks significant, are –
 Both financial and social integrity are main fundamental for sustainable development.
 For commercial growth, equity also has the same primacy.

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 Empower disadvantaged people to act on the operation and value of Oxfam.
 Line-up the new plans to prevent the reasons of poverty and inequality.
 All citizens should have a privilege to understand their potential capabilities, live without
any poverty in an unbiased world.
 Very frequently mostly the females are troubled with the poverty; also, their basic
requirements and human rights are essential for society (Oxfamamerica.org, 2018).
Therefore, Oxfam is very progressive and diverse by nature, which welcomes all opinions
and theories for the development of human rights.
THEORETICAL UNDERPINS
Functional Perspective of sociology represents an exceptional issue of explanation
(Isajiw, 2002). For instance, government collects taxes from citizens but in return, they provide
education to their children. Same as our families depends upon the various educational
institutions to get the decent jobs so that we can raise up our families too. Then routinely they
will be able to become taxpaying citizens.
In this order, society will produce stability as well as productivity. Functionalist have a
faith that society is covers certain social agreements, which are best for the entire society. This
stands separately from two main sociological perceptions: Symbolic internationalism and
Conflict theory. Functionalism is the reason, which stops people for being encouraged and
changing their role in society. Functionalism is an exceptional form of explanation, and only
viewed as a myth, which will be drive out with the time (Isajiw, 2002).

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PROCESS AND SERVICES
Oxfam implement six-sided tactics to overcome all the underprivileged citizens of this world
from the poverty and inequality.
 People discharged from poverty only when they have the privilege of availing their basic
rights. In this way, Oxfam helps people with its partners and local communities.
 Although women empowerment plays a vital role for human development but still
females are extremely underestimated and faces enormous trouble. Therefore, Oxfam is
there for providing impartiality and justice to all of them.
 Oxfam help people who are stuck in natural disasters and wars. They provide clean water,
food packets, sanitation, and other requirements for long-term protection to the people
affected by disasters.
 All the natural resources are so much significant for success and prosperity of poor and
disadvantaged citizens. They also have right of availing their fair share. Oxfam conduct a
number of operation with governments, universal associations, and other establishments
for more pleasant land arrangements and activity on climate change.
 In this world, almost one billion people sleep hungry so to stop hunger among people
Oxfam works with some global food suppliers. They want to balance the unfair food
system so that everyone can grow in a better appropriate way.
Firstly, Oxfam understands the process of working.
Then, meet with the beneficiaries.
Making designs and executing the construction.
Monitoring of programs (testing and monitoring work)

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Oxfam also support schools, valuable financial returns, help farmers in getting the just
payment for their crops, better health care, and treatment for diseases like HIV/AIDS, raising
voice against the laws and other sustainable projects for upgrading their lives (Oxfam
International, 2018).
FUNDING SOURCES
Poverty is deeply rooted with dissimilarity. For ending of unjust and inequality, Oxfam
needs to plan and work on their programs in more effective manner so that all of their work
would become more successful and enhance deliberately. During 2017-2018 Oxfam spent
£303.5m for accomplishment of donation, advancement programs, and other humanitarian duties
towards the underprivileged societies. Some of most deliberately key contributors who supports
Oxfam are - ECHO, DFID, DEC, Danida, WFP, SIDA, DFATD, government of Italy and
Belgium and other public appeals from across the world (Oxfam.org.uk, 2018).
For more growth opportunities, economic and financial benefit Oxfam is associated with
DFID. The funding of this five year Program Partnership Arrangement (PPA) is open for all
exclusive projects and helped for investing in various strategic primacies. In addition, from
2015-2019 SIDA Humanitarian Partnership Agreement, delivers a significant and expectable
monetary help of $10.8 million, to solve and support various philanthropic emergencies (NGO
Monitor, 2018).
HPA Considered as valuable source for Oxfam. HPA helps and serves life-saving wash,
security for food, protection, assistance and every possible support to approximately half million
citizens every year (Oxfam.org.uk, 2018). In 2017, Oxfam earned £409m, where 7% of total
revenue came from UK government. In 2016-2017, the overall income and overheads of Oxfam
was around €1 billion. 43.7% of their income belongs from- national government, European
Union, EU, UN and other related institutions (NGO Monitor, 2018). The prime privileged
countries who received the help from Oxfam are Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq,
Jordan, Nepal, South Sudan, and Yemen (Lee, 2018).

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CONCLUSION
Oxfam is an association of twenty non-governmental organizations, which works in a
systematic manner to end poverty at global level. Oxfam is an organization challenges the
auxiliary reasons for the bad form of poverty, and work with partners and accomplices locally in
a broader way. Oxfam is playing vital role for endowing underprivileged people to secure their
future, which is free and equitable from poverty. For the ending of poverty, economic growth is
not just enough. Therefore, that Oxfam is on a mission to provide the everlasting solutions to
stopover the hunger, poverty, and social injustice.

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REFERENCING
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https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-poverty
Isajiw, W. (2002). Causation and Functionalism in Society. Great Britain: Routledge & Kegan
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Lee, D. (2018). How much government aid does a charity like Oxfam actually get? Retrieved
from: https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/02/how-much-government-aid-does-charity-
oxfam-actually-get
NGO Monitor.org. (2018). Funding. Retrieved from: https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/oxfam/
Oxfam America. (2018). Countries we work in. Retrieved from:
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/countries/
Oxfam America.org. (2018). About Oxfam. Retrieved from:
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/about-oxfam/
Oxfam International. (2018). Long-Term Development. Retrieved from:
https://www.oxfam.org/en/longtermdevelopment
Oxfam international. (2018). Who we are. Retrieved from: https://www.oxfam.org/en/about
Oxfam. (2018). Strategic Funding Partnerships. Retrieved from: https://policy-
practice.oxfam.org.uk/our-approach/strategic-funding-partnerships