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Oxfam Hong Kong will remember this year for one of the largest natural disasters in known history, the formation of our China Unit, advances in the Make Trade Fair Campaign, and our 721 active projects.
The tsunami appeal was the largest in Oxfam history, and Hong Kong one of the most generous donors per capita worldwide. In the first six months after the disaster, the 12-member Oxfam family assisted some 1.6 million people in 7 countries, and the joint disaster management plan vows to make the best use of entrusted resources in a pro-poor, preparedness-based, gender-sensitive, transparent and accountable manner. Oxfam Hong Kongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new China Unit manages the development and expansion of our work in and on China: rural and urban programmes, policy research, advocacy, publishing, global citizenship education and more. This integration will better leverage our experience, create greater synergy and capacity, and influence both local and national policy for greater impact on poverty and inequity. While on-the-ground programmes can empower people out of poverty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; see page 9, 11, 15, 16 for projects with farmers and factory workers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; advocacy can multiply that effect for the long term. Through Oxfamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Make Trade Fair Campaign, more and more people are recognising that fair trade is an engine for effective poverty alleviation. Several corporations have engaged with us on Corporate Social Responsibility, the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently declared US cotton subsidies and European Union (EU) sugar subsidies illegal, and at the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in December 2005, our goal is a pro-poor agreement to assist some 2.5 billion farmers in developing countries. The year 2005 is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;make or breakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for poverty reduction: in many forums, world leaders are reviewing their commitments to increase aid, eliminate debt, reform trade rules, and meet the Millennium Development Goals of 2015, and Oxfam is urging them to act swiftly and responsibly so that poor people have better opportunities and more rights. In all that we do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; development, emergency relief, advocacy, public education and fundraising â&#x20AC;&#x201C; high quality is a must, and a given: many mechanisms are in place to ensure impact and accountability, and communications such as this Annual Review exists to relay our experiences with you, our stakeholders. We hope you will always be our partner against poverty, and we wish you all a harmonious year ahead, with all of your basic needs and rights met. Thank you for your support.
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!"#$%& Tse Kam-keung, Council Chair
!"#$ Chong Chan-yau, Executive Director