As President William Ruto kickstarts the #IDA 21 Summit alongside 16 African Heads of State in Nairobi, Women County Governors in Kenya are urging him to step up and prioritize gender equality within the #IDA framework.
Read their open letter here ⬇️standardmedia.co.ke/branding-voice…

Smallholders produce 70% of Africa's food, yet climate change is threatening their own food security and climate finance doesn't reach them. #IDA21 offers a key opportunity to strengthen Africa's food systems and deliver #GoodFood4All . ROPPA Oxfam in Africa Pan African Farmers Organisation (PAFO) Food and Agriculture Organization

'It is time for climate finance for women & holding players accountable! Together we can build a climate resilience #Africa where women are empowered as agents for change' Jeffrey
Join Oxfam & FEMNET today for the #ClimateTalkAfrica
Register👉us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Despite skyrocketing #cocoa prices, which topped $11,000 per metric ton for the first time, many farmers are unable to support their livelihood and are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.
More: oxf.am/CocoaConf24

Kenya commits to ensuring that labour market complies ‘with constitutional, legal and international standards’: statelaw.go.ke/wp-content/upl…. What is KNCHR Ministry of Labour and Social Protection going to do about this ?

MECHANICAL ENGINEER Amnesty Kenya The People’s Watchman OHCHR-KENYA The East African Centre for Human Rights KHRC UN Global Compact

Happening now on the sidelines of #PAC2023 in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭!

Would incorporating feminist economic alternatives in global tax governance pave the way for fiscal justice for women and girls in Africa?

Join the conversation ▶️: bit.ly/3sPedYc

.Hannah Ryder (芮 婉 洁) of Development Reimagined™ gives vital context on African voice in IMF :

🚩Germany has the same size of quota as the whole African continent

🚩At Bretton Woods, 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 had 20+ colonies, & they relied on this to argue for their shares

African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) Policy Center for the New South

At #WD2023 , Oxfam, partners and goverment officials came together to highlight

➡️ the important role women have in climate mitigation
➡️ the importance of having their voices in decision making process.

The current flow of climate financing to Africa does not meet its needs, particularly for women.

At the sidelines of Women Deliver, we will unpack how governments should leverage climate financing for gender-responsive agricultural resilience
Register➡️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🇰🇪Kenya has dropped its digital services tax and will join Pillar One. Revenue officials we spoke with this week were very confident the DST was the better option, but the explanation comes at the end of the article. All eyes on 🇳🇬Nigeria now! …essdailyafrica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.busine…

“If you put crabs in a barrel to insure your survival you gon’ end up pulling down people that look just Iike you…”

#MurderToExcellence

Oxfam and ROA Africa Network are working together to ensure that aid provided to Africa is effectively fighting poverty and inequality through strong and coherent coalitions of civil society organizations and women’s rights organizations

#FeministPower

“It is time to change the current food system that only benefits the few, & move towards food system that puts pple over profits” Diana Trevilla, Mexican Feminist Agroecologist at the close of the Feminist Food System Convening 2023 conference in Mozambique
#FeministPower
Oxfam International

This is what #FeministPower looks like 👉🏾 From mobilizing women to campaign for their rights to making governments implement their commitments to gender equality – FEMNET is a powerful outlet for the voices of African women.

#internationalwomensday

Zakayo is focused on eating More than dynasties.
Reviving the economy ni wewe.

Nairobi CBD, Kericho,Bomet, Finlay,Lake Victoria, Tirries Tuesday, Terminal 2

🇰🇪 'He wants to sleep with you, then you get a job.'

A #BBCAfricaEye and #BBCPanorama investigation has uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms which supply some of the world’s most popular brands.

Watch ‘Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea': youtu.be/1wMdnCx6eUc

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼Let's come together tomorrow!

Join thousands of activists from over 20 countries across the world as we observe the 1st Global #BlackBandFriday in a massive show of strength for this growing movement

Find out what time your region will be participating fightinequality.org/#black-band-fr…

Inequality is a global & European problem
👉The richest 1% in the 🌍 pocketed 6x more wealth than the bottom 90% between 2020-21
👉The richest 1% in the 🇪🇺 made 4.5x more wealth that the bottom 90%
👉The bottom 90% in the 🇪🇺 shared less than 10 € out of 100
A thread on #wef23 🧵

I'll try break down in this thread some of the analysis + data jam-packed across Oxfam International's new inequality report, 'Survival of the Richest'. Full: oxfam.org/en/research/su…

A massive shout out to amazing pals Oxfam International + beyond who led this. Some of 'em tagged here.

Ok here we go!

Today Oxfam launches our new report 'Survival of the richest'. In it, we document the obscene wealth concentration among billionaires and the richest 1%. Our solution: Tax the rich.

Read some of report highlights in the thread below 👇🧵 #TaxTheRich
theguardian.com/inequality/202…