1. What are the main issues facing Oxfam’s project managers in terms of:

• Globalization and international management

• Environmental management

• Social responsibility

• Technology

• Knowledge management?

Oxfam is a major international development, relief and campaigning organization dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. Oxfam GB, which is affiliated to Oxfam International, works closely with the communities it helps through a network of local partners and volunteers to provide safety, dignity and opportunity for many disadvantaged people around the world.
The Oxford Famine Relief began as one of many famine relief agencies that sprang up during the Second World War. It continued after the war and extended its remit to provide for the relief of suffering whatever the cause might be. Oxfam, as it soon became known, set up collection points for donations and opened its first charity shop in 1948. Oxfam’s current network of more than 830 charity shops are run by about 22,000 volunteers and are a key source of income. The shops sell donated items and handcrafts from around the world giving small-scale producers fair prices, training, advice and funding. Orders for items can be made by mail or over the internet.
Oxfam has also teamed up with Yahoo! to provide free access to the internet in the United Kingdom and at the same time raise funds. Together with legacies and donations for general use and monies raised for particular emergencies (restrictive funds), Oxfam generated a total income of around £124 million in 1998–99. Oxfam employs around 1300 staff, of whom around 700 are based in Oxford, and the others, together with about 1500 locally recruited staff, work overseas.