The Advocacy team's role is essentially to change public policies and practices in ways that will have a positive impact on poor people's lives.

Advocacy can take place at a variety of levels from local communities through to international institutions, and include a variety of methods including lobbying, media work, popular campaigning and changing public attitudes.

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Oxfam's humanitarian programmes aim to have the maximum impact on the health of a population affected by crisis, through the integration of Oxfam's various sectoral activities.

Oxfam's Humanitarian Department is responsible for a wide range of activities, including advising Oxfam's international regions on humanitarian response, building regional capacity to respond to emergencies, leading programme development work on key areas such as public health, food security, HIV and AIDS, protection, gender and preparedness, as well as delivering advocacy on humanitarian issues in developed countries and providing security management advice.

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Oxfam's country and regional staff work with the programme policy advisers to implement our programmes in more than sixty countries.  

Programme staff work with local partners to develop, implement and evaluate a variety of initiatives, offering a range of support through training and capacity-building, networking with other similar organisations, and financial support.

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The Programme Policy team consists of development professionals who provide global advisory support to Oxfam's large number of projects and programmes across more than sixty countries.

Programme Policy advisers assist in improving the coherence, quality, and impact of Oxfam's programmes and ensure that we learn from good and innovative work through facilitating programme focused learning processes and resources. 

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Research enables Oxfam to look ahead and plan strategically for a fast-changing context. It sharpens and underpins the credibility of Oxfam's campaigns and helps us design, monitor and assess the impact of our country-level programmes.

The Research team has a number of key functions: it researches and writes briefing papers and campaign reports; keeps abreast of new ideas that may feed into future policies or advocacy work or shape our programme thinking and builds Oxfam's research capacity and quality, especially outside the UK.

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Our Senior Management staff are responsible for ensuring the quality, effectiveness and accountability of Oxfam's portfolio of humanitarian, development and campaigning work around the world.

Oxfam GB works in seven global regions: Asia; Latin America & Caribbean; UK; HECA (Horn, East and Central Africa); MEEECIS (Middle East, Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States); Southern Africa and West Africa.

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