Difficult, Disturbing Times at Oxfam, but Gender Equality Mission Endures
If you follow the news on philanthropy, you have probably heard about Oxfam's troubles. One of the oldest and largest global relief and development organizations, Oxfam is now facing heavy scrutiny due to sexual misconduct by some of its staff in Haiti in 2011. The Haitian government has suspended some of Oxfam's operations in its country for two months while it investigates how the nonprofit handled the allegations of Oxfam's sexual misconduct during their humanitarian response in 2011. An estimated 7,000 individual supporters have since abandoned the organization since the allegations were reported in February this year, although the nonprofit asserts that their corporate partners have not withdrawn support. (A helpful timeline of events about the O
Great update. Thank-you!
It is important for long standing supporters of Oxfam America like me, and in full disclosure I worked for Oxfam as their Global Program Director for three years, to share information about concrete steps being taken to improve and monitor programs and culture. Thank you for sharing this so widely. Constance Kane