We helped women gain access to and control over productive resources so that they could improve their economic status and well-being. This includes addressing the issue of unpaid care work which prevents women and girls from being economically empowered.
Executive Director Maria Rosario “Lot” Felizco shared Oxfam’s decade-long journey in advancing care at the Quezon City Transformative Care Policy and Practice Conference on 12 March 2026
As recent developments threaten the gains of the Bangsamoro peace process, we join a multisectoral coalition of leaders and organizations in urging the Philippine government to take decisive action to keep the transition on track in accordance with the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.
Oxfam Pilipinas joined the Regional Safeguarding Training in Bangkok, Thailand on 4-6 February 2026, organized by Oxfam in Asia.
Partner organizations SIMCARRD Inc., KMFI, Oxfam België/Belgique, and Oxfam Pilipinas gathered for a feast of community stories as the European Union-funded project "Strengthening Agri-fishery Enterprise through Women and Youth Empowerment Inclusive Business and Climate Resilience", or WEE-SAFE, comes to an end on 11 February 2026, in Zamboanga.
Oxfam Pilipinas, Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK), together with the Government of Canada, Oxfam Canada, and local organizations, launched the Care Connect project in Biliran on July 24, 2025, emphasizing the need to recognize care work as real work and institutionalize care programs and policies at the local level.
Within countless households across the Philippines, domestic workers provide essential care work for other families so their own families may live. And yet, they are among the most vulnerable and underappreciated workers in the country. Long hours, below-minimum wages, little to no social protection, and, in extreme cases, outright abuse characterize their experience.
The campaign kicks off with an online forum, ‘Family or Career, Why Not Both? Pag-usapan natin paano sumakses sa bahay at buhay', highlighting the effects of assigning majority of unpaid care and domestic work to women in the typical Filipino household.
Civil society, government, and private sector representatives concluded a learning exchange focused on enhancing women’s economic empowerment in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) held February 18 to 19 in Davao City. Hosted by Oxfam and The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Bangsamoro Women Commission and supported by the Australian Government in […]
Oxfam Pilipinas and its partners have officially launched an initiative aimed at boosting economic opportunities for 54,600 women, youth, indigenous people (IP), and other small producers in the Agri-fishery sector in Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi (BaSulTa) provinces in the Philippines.
Oxfam Pilipinas’ campaign addressing gender norms on unpaid care work and women’s breadwinning during COVID-19 received the top award at the recently held 20th Philippine Quill Awards. The “HomesquadPH” campaign, which sheds light on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) in Filipino homes, especially among urban millennials, received an Award of Excellence in communication management […]