Oxfam Pilipinas marked National Women’s Month on Monday with a call for urgent action to protect women’s rights, reproductive healthcare, and gender justice amid increasing local and global backlash against rights movements. Themed “Personal to Powerful: Our Power to Act,” the solidarity event brought together sexual health advocates, government agencies, and community leaders in Quezon […]

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 are calling on the government to prioritize care work—both paid and unpaid—through concrete measures. These include reducing the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women and girls and ensuring that paid care workers receive fair wages, equitable benefits, and safe working environments.

Oxfam Pilipinas is pleased to announce the appointment of Maria Rosario “Lot” Felizco,  as its new Executive Director. Felizco has over 30 years of experience working in the development sector, and has served in various leadership roles in Oxfam, including as country director with Oxfam Great Britain, policy director with Oxfam Hong Kong, and most […]

Oxfam Pilipinas, together with the Office of Senator Risa Hontiveros, various civil society organizations, and child rights advocates, strongly supports the passage of the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Bill and the implementation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).

The award marks the third recognition given to Oxfam Pilipinas in 2024.

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 […]

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.

Oxfam analyzed the largest climate adaptation projects of the Asian Development Bank in the region and discovered that the actual adaptation finance could be off by 44 percent—$0.9 billion instead of the reported $1.7 billion.

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.