(FORMER) F4A Women’s Economic Empowermen the collaboration between the Women’s Economic Empowerment Knowledge Hub and Oxfam Novib
Prepared by: Ruben De Winne (Learning, innovation <(>&<)> knowledge coordinator, F4A programme, Oxfam Novib) <(>&<)> Marylew Echavez (Coordinator, Women’s Economic Empowerment Knowledge Hub, Oxfam in the Philippines)
Date: 22 February 2022
Version: 3
Background
From 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025, a consortium consisting of Huairou Commission, Oxfam Novib, SOMO, and Third World Network-Africa will implement the FAIR for ALL (“F4A”) programme. With funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and together with dozens of partner organizations, the consortium wants to make value chains and trade in 14 countries more inclusive and sustainable. Learning is a key component of the programme. Through effective learning, the programme stakeholders seek to improve ongoing programme strategies and maximize their impact. To that end, the consortium needs a deliberate space <(>&<)> infrastructure for learning, innovation <(>&<)> knowledge, available toall consortium members and their partner organizations, to enable continuous adaptive management so that the F4A programme is and remains relevant, efficient <(>&<)> effective.
Learning in the F4A programme happens both within the 17 countries, regional <(>&<)> global projects, and at the cross-country level. To harness cross-country learning, the FAIR for ALL country and regional teams decided to establish four Communities of Practice (“COPs”) that will each focus on one of the following four topics: capacity strengthening, civic space, (private sector) influencing, and women’s economic empowerment.
The purpose of these Communities of Practice is to provide the staff of consortium members (both at the central and decentralized level) and of partner organizations with a safe environment for sharing, learning, collaborating, and strengthening capacities on capacity strengthening, civic space, (private sector) influencing, or women’s economic empowerment. As such, this Community of Practice is part of the infrastructure for learning, innovation <(>&<)> knowledge available to all consortium members and their partner organizations.
Each Community of Practice will have a chairperson and an animator.
WEE Knowledge Hub background, purpose, and knowledge offers
Since its inception in 2013, the WEE Knowledge Hub (WEE KH) has mobilized and animated the Oxfam WEE network, created links for knowledge exchange, and made visible pre-existingknowledge across the confederation. These objectives have been reached bya shared service model focusing on communications accompaniment, knowledge management support, facilitating peer-to-peer learning exchanges unlocking strategic practitioner networking, and influencing opportunities.
The WEE KH has acted as a conduit to share and connect WEE practitioners across the confederation. Its legacies as a learning convenor across programmes and projects across Oxfam as a whole including its partners, through high impact learning forums, learning spaces, and brokering knowledge connection and shared expertise, have fulfilled the WEE KH purpose to strengthen Oxfam’s quality work on WEE, learn from practice and influence social change.
This is the knowledge and learning offer of the WEEKH to the FAIR for ALL (“F4A”) programme.  WEE KH through its convenor and networker role, will support the WEE Community of Practice within the F4A programme to become effective WEE champions, innovators, and knowledge holders in promoting gender justice, racialjustice, and transformation of economic systems.
Purpose of the collaboration between the WEE KH and Oxfam Novib
Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Knowledge Hub, hosted by Oxfam in the Philippines, will manage the animator role of the F4A Community of Practiceon women’s economic empowerment. As such, the WEE KH will animate the Community of Practice by proactively encouraging and organizing the community members to connect and co-create knowledge from practice within the F4A program. WEE KH can also bring in its knowledge offer and thematic expertise from the wider WEE KH Network in Oxfam so that the F4A WEE Community of Practice will be able to connect to various WEE knowledge activities across the Oxfam Confederation and together, generate useful learning to improve ongoing WEE-related programme strategies and maximize its impact. To be able to do this effectively, the WEE KH will commission staff or consultant/s based on the identified needs of the F4A WEE COP workplan and supervise the execution of the animator role of the WEE KHtothe F4A Programme.
Structural Approaches:
1. Learning Convenor Role – the WEE KH as the animator through a dedicated staff/consultant will assist the chairperson in the preparation, delivery of knowledge activities such as meetings, webinars, learning events, andactive participation of the WEE COP members in its learning activities.
a. WEE KH will manage and ensure up-to-date COP membership,profiling of database, and report to the FAIR for ALL Learning Coordinator the developments, needs, and anynecessary information related to the F4A programme.

2. Knowledge Management Role – WEE KH will co-lead and provide advice on the development of learning products <(>&<)> methodologies and on the organization of learning events, to support the development ofthe F4A WEE COP as a learning network.

a. WEE KH through a dedicated staff/consultant will document the activities of the Community of Practice and their outcomes. With inputs from the Community of Practice, WEE KH will facilitate the production of knowledge products that will translate the learning from within the Community of Practice into something also useful for those outside the Community of Practice. Expected deliverables from the WEE KH
Overall timeframe for the collaboration between the WEEKH and Oxfam Novib
The WEE KH and Oxfam Novib intend to engage in a 4-year collaboration: from early 2022 until the end of the FAIR for ALL programme in December 2025. The WEE KH and Oxfam Novib will regularly, but at least once per year, evaluate the modalities of their collaboration.
Expected deliverables from WEEKH
- Active and up-to-date list of F4A WEE Community of Practice members or directory that includes learning needs, expertise, or specialization aside from the usual contact list.
- A finalTerms of Reference for the Community of Practice on women’s economic empowerment, finalized together with the Community members and the chairperson.
- The preparation <(>&<)> facilitation of as many meetings of the Community of Practice as Community membersdeem useful, but at least once per month as of Year 2, in a format co-decided upon with Community members and the chairperson. For Year 1, one meeting with the Chairperson in February 2022 and one meeting with theF4A WEE Community of Practice in March 2022.
-Succinct, to-the-point documentation of the activities of the Community of Practice and their main outcomes.
- Facilitate consultations on and delivery of the knowledge products the COP decides to produce and disseminate within and outside the F4A programme.  These knowledge products will require inputs and content from the members of the Community of Practice.
- Integration of knowledge produced in/by the Community of Practice into other relevant Oxfam knowledge fora.
- Facilitate reflection of the outcomes and reach of knowledge activities of the COP (at least annually).
Expected support by Oxfam Novib
-Oxfam Novib will cover the costs that the WEE KH will incur for the animation of the Community of Practice à 35,000 EUR/year.
- Oxfam Novib willprovide all necessary information related to the FAIR for ALL programmes.
- Oxfam Novib will convene all animators of all Communities of Practice to discuss common challenges and good practices.
Specific timeline for end of Year 1 and Year 2