Payments Oxfam operations from 18 countries amide COVID-19 Related financial pressure

The International Organization for Oxfam Development announced on Wednesday that it will withdraw its activity in 18 countries and laid off nearly a third of employees due to final pressures related to COVID-19 pandemic. “Oxfam has made the crown for help the work of the most vulnerable of the world’s most vital people than ever before, while at the same time, it affects the ability to deliver,” said Oxfam’s interim executive director Chema Vera in a statement. Oxfam currently works in 66 countries. Move the organization plans to have a presence in 48 countries around the preserve. be rejected 1,450 of 5,000 employees. The 19-COVID pandemic has put a strain on the organization’s financial situation, the suppression of fundraising events and the closing of the Oxfam charity shops. According to the latest annual report of the organization, fundraising 40% is attributable to the budget of Oxfam in 2018-2019. Some members of the Oxfam staff were voluntary wage cuts, adopted in particular for all ages. Several national offices are now closed in Thailand, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Paraguay, Egypt, Tanzania, Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Benin, Liberia and Mauritania, including. Oxfam has a presence in these countries some for over 50 years. In some cases, the organization sounded the alarm bell in relation to human rights violations in the countries in which they worked, especially in Rwanda during the genocide. “Inevitably we had some very tough decisions about where we no longer have a physical presence,” he said Vera added in the statement that further progress, Oxfam has a “deeper footprint” in some countries. Before COVID 19-pandemic Oxfam has already started a renovation and in 2018 with a scandal 10 years a strategic review of the organization are involved. Oxfam has come under fire after they covered the organization their investigation was locals pay staff for sex following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti discovered. The Commission Charity reports concluded that it was after the discovery of 7,000 pieces of evidence “serious problems with the culture, morality and behavior,” the Oxfam staff in Haiti, the charity hidden allegations of child abuse have shown. The scandal led to the resignation of the general manager, Oxfam UK, Mark Goldring and his deputy chief, Penny Lawrence in 2018. Oxfam has a financial success as a result of the scandal after donors pulled their support. A leaked document noted that Oxfam suffered a cut of $19 million dollars for its budget as a result of the scandal. “The security scandal of 2018 children with Oxfam UK already planning brand had weakened, even with a couple of big donors,” says Stefan Dercon, professor of political economy at Oxford University and former chief economist of the DFID, the Department the head of the British government international development efforts in the UK. “It ‘s already begun weaker in 2020 than many other organizations.” He added: “COVID19 accelerated its decline.” While Oxfam unique pressures faced before COVID19 challenging climate still affected by humanitarian organizations in the pandemic. “Even before the crisis, declining commitment to help in many countries, many of the usual delivery of development have been set, including, but not limited to international NGOs, under pressure,” said Dercon.
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