ADVOCATING FOR A TRANSPARENT AID POLICY
The focus of the ‘India and the World’ (IATW) programme at Oxfam India involves extensive engagement between civil society and grassroots organisations through varied modes. This helps to enhance their understanding of how multilateral processes and development affect their roles and objectives in the domestic context.
Additionally, the IATW programme aims to create a vast body of research on India’s development cooperation experience and on developing country issues which can be addressed at the G20 and BRICS/NDB platforms when they take place.
The developments that took place this year as part of the IATW programme were:
EMPOWERING CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS (CSO) NETWORKS IN AN UNEQUAL MULTIPOLAR WORLD IN BRICSAM COUNTRIES (ECSN-BRICSAM)
The three-year European Commission project aimed to increase the level of engagement with global processes CSOs and their partners in the BRICSAM grouping. The goals realised under the ECSN project will inform and articulate Oxfam India’s advocacy work in the international development and finance space from a civil society perspective. Oxfam India partnered with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) and the Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA) over the duration of the project. There was increased participation by representatives from Indian CSOs at major global multilateral forums namely the G20, Financing for Development (FFD) organised by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), the Civil BRICS, and conferences, workshops and seminars organised around the newly-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
GLOBAL RESEARCH, STUDIES AND NEWSLETTERS
A Networks contributed to global research on the commercialisation of health service JSA and in food systems (Right to Food Campaign). With an emphasis on India, the CBGA produced two studies on secondary education and health services. It also went about formulating a number of policy briefs which tackled issues pertaining to illicit financial flows in BRICS countries, SDGs and inequality. The ‘Vasudha Foundation’ took up the responsibility of producing four quarterly BRICS newsletters which were disseminated both within the country and to CSO networks overseas.
