
It is my privilege to present to you the Annual Report and audited accounts of Oxfam India for the Financial year 2014-2015. Oxfam has been present in India since 1951, and therefore, has a 64 year old legacy; yet, we are relatively new as an Indian organisation, having completed just six years as an Indian Oxfam, on September 1, 2014. During this period, we have restructured Oxfam India so that now, our entire program is fully aligned to the strategy that we had formulated for 2010-2015. We are now focused on the seven poorest states of India - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam, and Odisha, and, within these states, we are working for the rights of the most marginalised people in India. As we do so, we are conscious and dismayed by the high and rising inequality within India (and across the globe) and of the need to provide basic education, basic health, and livelihoods for all so that these gaps can be narrowed. Oxfam's global report "Even It Up" caught the attention of world policy and opinion makers because it captures so brilliantly the mood and concerns of the world on the issue of widespread rise in inequality.