This document discusses the partnership between Oxfam and Monash University, including several research projects they conducted together on topics like the gendered impacts of climate change in Bangladesh and governance/accountability in South Africa's health sector. It notes that the partnership allows them to pool innovation, better support social change processes, and pilot new collaborative approaches. It also highlights a case study they conducted on strengthening citizen accountability for South Africa's national health insurance program.

1. The Potential of partnerships: the
Oxfam-Monash research partnership
Doing more together

2. Working together
• South Africa Summer
Placements Program
• Oxfam shop on
Clayton campus
• Staff giving
• Oxfam-Monash The 2011 Oxfam-Monash Summer Placement Program
participants.Credit: Inger Harber / OxfamSA
Partnership

3. Funded Research
• Gendered impacts of climate variability and climate events in Bangladesh
▫ Professor Margaret Alston, Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability Unit
(Monash University)
▫ Tania Cass, Program Manager, India and Bangladesh program (Oxfam Australia)
▫ Md Badi Akhter, Program Manager, Oxfam Great Britain
• Governance and Accountability in the Health Sector: Developing a people’s
policy for health in South Africa
▫ Professors Brian Oldenburg and Geoffrey Setswe, Dr Ravayi Marindo (Monash
University)
▫ Uvarshi Rajcoomar, Senior Program Coordinator (Oxfam South Africa)
• Oxfam International Sense-making Exercise
▫ Chris Roach, Director Development Effectiveness (Oxfam Australia)
▫ Dr Craig Thorburn, School of Geography (Monash University)
• Community-driven Accountability in Cambodia
▫ Dr Shelley Marshall, Department of Business Law and Taxation (Monash
University)
▫ Michael Simon, Advocacy Manager (Oxfam Australia)

4. Ways of Working
• Pooling and testing
innovation
• Understanding how to
best support processes of
pro-poor political and
social change
• Piloting new forms of 2010 Oxfam-Monash Partnership Search Conference
praxis

5. Case Study - NHI in South Africa
How can the South African
government be held to account by
its citizens for the development and
delivery of effective, appropriate
social policy?
Specifically, how can citizens’
ability to hold their governments
accountable for an effective and
efficient health system in South
Africa be strengthened? Gugu Ndlovu is a care giver at the Hillcrest HIV centre in Durban,
South Africa. Credit: Matthew Willman / OxfamAUS

6. Lessons Learned
• Ways of working
• The bigger picture
▫ Leverage for sector wide impact
▫ Links with organizational strengths
▫ Articulation of methodology

7. Thank You!