Oxfam Pilipinas, partners win UN’s Asia-Pacific Care Champions award
Bangkok, Thailand – The partners behind the WE CARE Ordinance of Quinapondan, Eastern Samar were honored as 2024 Asia-Pacific Care Champions by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and UN Women. The award recognizes “trailblazers who have made pioneering contributions to building inclusive and sustainable care systems” whose […]
We Save Lives
Feminist Local Humanitarian Leadership: Empowering Women as Drivers of Change in Emergencies
Judy Ann Reambonanza (middle) from Sentro para sa Ikauunlad ng Katutubong Agham at Teknolohiya (SIKAT), together with Mariphel Salgado (left) and Rechcin Concilles (right), proudly recalls and demonstrates how to apply knot-tying techniques to transport a person. This is part of the skills they acquired from the Water, Safety, Rescue, and Survival Techniques (WASAR) training.
We Promote Gender Justice
Civil society, women and youth promoting culture of peace in Mindanao, Philippines (BRIDGE) Project
Melita Amando, a 51-year-old Barangay Health Worker (BHW) from Barangay Lamud, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur, shares the struggles of her life as a “bakwit.”
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The inequality of risk
Disasters are life-shattering, but their effects are not the same for everyone. They are true breaking points for people with low incomes and high levels of vulnerability.
Updates
COP29: Why it matters to the Philippines
The Global North must #PayUp: Obligation, not a donation. As primary contributors to the climate crisis, the Global North and super-rich must pay up a hefty sum commensurate with the injustices and damages they have caused to the people and the planet.
ASEAN Energy Ministers commit to intensify Just and Inclusive Renewable Energy collaboration in the region
At AEBF-24, Oxfam joined the call of civil society organizations in urging ASEAN leaders for more ambitious targets on RE and to implement a fast transition to these sources.
Join Oxfam at APMCDRR 2024
This October 14-18, Oxfam Pilipinas along with our partners from across the confederation and our local humanitarian partners are joining the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2024 (APMCDRR) hosted by the Government of the Philippines and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila.
Farhana’s Fearless Campaign: Mobilising Young People to End Child Marriage
Farhana Ganoy, a youth advocate from the Maguindanao Alliance of Youth Advocates, during an in-school awareness session on Child, Early, and Forced Marriage, Teenage Pregnancy, and R.A. 11596 (An Act Prohibiting Child Marriage and Imposing Penalties for Violations) as part of the “CabPapalisa” activity.