Some people often correlate women leaders with bad governance or bad leadership. Well, I beg to disagree. Leadership for me is not about the title. You can be a full time homemaker and be a leader compared to an elected official. In the case of the Marawi conflict and the extension of Martial Law in […]

Two months into the crisis in Marawi, adequate humanitarian aid have yet to reach families forced to flee to remote towns outside the city, especially those located around Lake Lanao. 

Civil society organizations in Mindanao under the Bangsamoro Platform for Unity, Solidarity and Harmony (BM-PUSH) on Tuesday, July 18, declared support for the new Bangsamoro Basic Law submitted by the expanded Bangsamoro Transition Commission to President Rodrigo Duterte, noting that ensuring lasting peace in Mindanao goes beyond the conflict in Marawi. The groups signed a […]

Through our partners, Oxfam is providing life-saving support for clean water, sanitation and hygiene; helping displaced families get the information they need about their legal and human rights; and connecting them to medical, legal and other support services while advocating for durable peace. Our partners for our humanitarian response in Marawi City are the Humanitarian Response Consortium, Initiatives for Dialogue […]

As the crisis in Marawi City enters its fifth week, there are concerns that the situation could become protracted, with no immediate indication on when evacuees could return to their homes. The number of evacuees continue to increase as neighboring municipalities affected by the ongoing offensives have also sought shelter and livelihood options elsewhere.  One month on, here’s […]

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Moros from different parts of the southern Philippines held a simultaneous tarawee for Marawi on Tuesday, June 20, marking World Refugee Day. The tarawee is special prayer recited before midnight during Ramadan. In the final, holiest days of Ramadan, the Al Mujadilah Development Foundation, a Marawi-based nongovernmental organization composed mostly of Muslim […]

Armed clashes continue to ravage Marawi City on day 18 of the harrowing crisis, but just 18 kilometers away, women brave many challenges as they lead the delivery of life-saving aid to some of the 220,000 civilians affected by the conflict. “During conflict, the population of women in evacuation centers is bigger than men. Women […]

As the humanitarian situation in the southern city of Marawi enters its second week, over 90% of people in Marawi City have been forced to flee to neighboring areas while hundreds remain trapped in the city proper. Marawi City has a predominantly Muslim population of about 200,000 people.  Assessments conducted by the Humanitarian Response Consortium […]

As conflict continues to intensify in Marawi, with a predominant Muslim-population of about 200,000 people in Central Mindanao, very little is known of the plight of civilians trapped inside their homes and those who have fled, estimated to be a large number.  Aside from sketchy reporting on about men, women, and children exposed to a […]

The Australian Government in partnership with Google.org has awarded the Google Impact Challenge “Technology Against Poverty” Prize to Oxfam. The Challenge is conducted worldwide to support local non-profit innovators to use technology to solve key social and development problems. “The I AFFORD Project highlights an innovative partnership between the private sector, government and non-government organizations, to address enduring poverty […]