Oxfam Guide to Feminist Influencing


oxfams_guide_to_feminist_influencing_english.pdf


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Shamiso Faith Varaidzo Welcome to the Oxfam Guide to Feminist Influencing, designed to help Oxfam staff apply feminist principles and practices to
campaigning (including digital and public campaigns), policy, and advocacy. It will help you translate “putting women’s rights at
the heart of all we do” into clear simple steps, ideas and actions, with an emphasis on transforming unequal gender and power
relations. The ideas, strategy and tools presented here are applicable to any issue area and so can be used to either integrate
gender, or create gender-focused work, across all the themes and issues we work on.

This guide is for everyone working in the policy, advocacy, and campaigning space; you don’t have to be a gender specialist
to challenge oppression and contribute to gender equality. Staff at all levels and in any role can use this guide to make their
influencing work more feminist. While focused on influencing, which in Oxfam largely comprises of policy development, advocacy
and campaigning, including alliance and movement building, many of the themes presented here are also relevant for programs.
This guide builds on and can be used alongside other Oxfam resources for policy, advocacy and campaigns, many of which are linked
to throughout. We begin with an overview of what it means to have a “feminist approach” to influencing, and why it matters, then
address internal organizational culture, which is where a feminist approach really starts