Oxfam is an international confederation of 22 organizations working together with partners and local communities in 77 countries around the world.

Oxfam has been working in Nepal for over 40 years. We implement programmes through five interrelated thematic priorities - Gender Justice, Climate Justice and Resilience, Economic Justice, Water Governance and WASH, and Humanitarian Response to respond to the intersectional and multidimensional nature of inequalities and injustices that perpetuate poverty in the lives of women, marginalized, vulnerable people and communities.

Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them. In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.

Oxfam has been working in Nepal since the early 1980s undertaking various development initiatives addressing poverty and injustice faced by the population, especially women and other socially and economically excluded groups. 

Over the years, Oxfam has worked in partnership with local civil society organisations and the government authorities and services to promote rural livelihoods, and vulnerable communities’ resilience to climatic shocks and disasters. It has also significantly contributed to empowering community people, especially women, to negotiate with people in power, influence decision making processes, claim rights and essential services to which they are entitled, demand accountability on the part of duty bearers and engage larger masses in advocacy efforts.

Oxfam’s vision for Nepal is a just society without poverty, in which all women and men live a life of dignity, enjoy their rights and assume their responsibilities as active citizens of Nepal. To contribute to this vision, Oxfam builds upon its niche and delivers through five interrelated thematic priorities  - a. Gender Justice b. Climate Justice and Resilience c. Economic Justice d. Water Governance and WASH and e. Humanitarian Response. 

Our goal

Our purpose is to help create lasting solutions to the injustice of poverty. We are part of a global movement for change, empowering people to create a future that is secure, just, and free from poverty.

Our mission

We use a combination of rights-based sustainable development and influencing strategies to work with partners on the promotion and protection of human rights, women's economic empowerment, building community resilience, and responsible management of natural resources.

Our vision

Oxfam’s vision for Nepal is a just society without poverty, in which all women and men live a life of dignity, enjoy their rights and assume their responsibilities as active citizens of Nepal.