A joint initiative between Oxfam and the investment industry, The Better Returns in a Better World project aims to assess the potential for investors to contribute to poverty alleviation through their investment activities.

The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) aims to make cash transfer and voucher programming a viable and accountable programme mechanism used by all technical sectors engaged in humanitarian preparedness and response work by 2013.

The ECB project aims to improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of the humanitarian sector's ability to save lives, protect livelihoods and defend the rights of disaster-vulnerable communities.

Oxfam GB's Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods (EFSL) specialists have been heavily involved in the development of techniques and approaches that are widely used today.

The EDP supports and invests in small rural enterprises in places that financial institutions do not reach.

Ethical trade means that retailers, brands and their suppliers take responsibility for improving the working conditions of the people who make the products they sell.