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Website banner with QR code of UN ESCAP and Oxfam's Caring Entrepreneurs in ASEAN grant program. The grant will be open to small businesses and local partners supporting communities directly in running their small businesses. Please note that this grant cannot cover any subcontracting activities. The grant will be open to initiatives in ASEAN countries. The grant would give a particular preference to 1. Care enterprises and paid care models: Small and medium care enterprises or community-based initiatives that involve paid care work, across a variety of models and services, such as care for children, older persons or persons with disabilities, and including digital-enabled care enterprises, on-demand, in-person or centre-based services for families or corporations. 2. Care-responsive business practices: Initiatives where small and/or medium enterprises test approaches to address the care responsibilities of workers and entrepreneurs, such as workplace care solutions, flexible arrangements, or partnerships with care providers Applicants must be legally registered entities in their country of operation and able to comply with basic due diligence requirements if selected. Women led, women owned, and community based enterprises are strongly encouraged to apply. For more info, visit oxfam.org.ph.

Are you a small or medium-sized business, social enterprise, or community-based initiative invested in addressing unpaid care and domestic work through entrepreneurship? If yes, this grant may be for you.

Concepcion Morilla, 62, is one of the project participants who received Php 10,000 cash aid from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, with Coastal Core and Oxfam Pilipinas. This was a response towards recovery and rebuilding after multiple disasters including Typhoon Fung-wong. For more info, visit oxfam.org.ph

The Community Organizers Multiversity and Oxfam Pilipinas, with funding support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), distributed multipurpose cash assistance to families in several barangays in Dipaculao, Aurora last week.

Poster of reaction to the state of national energy emergency declaration 25 March 2026 Oxfam Pilipinas’ reaction on the state of national energy emergency declaration 25 March 2026 On 24 March 2026, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of national energy emergency in response to the surging oil prices brought about by the US-Israel war on Iran, and impacting prices of fuel, food, and electricity. This is causing further hardship for Filipinos already struggling to meet basic needs. Oxfam Pilipinas’ Executive Director Maria Rosario “Lot” Felizco said: “Oxfam Pilipinas believes that while the executive order provides a mandate to respond to the disruptions in the global energy supply and its impacts on the domestic economy, the government must think of long-term solutions to transition away from fossil fuel dependence and accelerate the renewable energy (RE) transition. “The Philippine government must also address the concerns arising from our import-dependent, privately-owned oil sources, where consumers bear the brunt of pass-through costs brought about by price volatility. Moreover, the current crisis highlights the need to maximize the potential of indigenous RE sources and to modernize the grid as a priority solution. “We are facing a polycrisis of increased inequality, climate impacts, and an energy crisis. The national energy emergency must address these crises by ensuring that energy solutions are 1.5°C aligned and provide safeguards for Filipinos now and in the future. “There must also be an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and an end to the war. This latest brutal war in the Middle East is having catastrophic impacts on people across the region, including Palestinians in Gaza. As the region stands at a perilous moment, Oxfam calls on all parties to the conflict to immediately end the violence.” For more info, visit oxfam.org.ph.

The government must think of long-term solutions to transition away from fossil fuel dependence and accelerate the renewable energy transition.

Photo of the high-level multi-stakeholder forum organized by REI Philippines today at the AIM Conference Centre (ACC) in Makati City. For more info, visit oxfam.org.ph

The Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines has set out a set of recommendations to address barriers to scaling utility-scale renewable energy in a socially just and ecologically safe manner.

Poster of Oxfam Pilipinas’ statement on the issuance of fatwa or religious edict against forcing women to marry their rapist or perpetrator: We applaud the Bangsamoro Darul-Ifta for issuing a fatwa that declares forcing women to marry their perpetrator as haram or forbidden under the Shariah or Islamic law. The fatwa affirms the fundamental rights of women and girls and emphasizes that sexual violence must be met with justice: victim-survivors should not be trapped in a cycle of violence and perpetrators should not evade persecution. For more info on gender justice in the Philippines, feminist organization in the Philippines, and gender justice in islam, visit https://oxfam.org.ph/what-we-do/preventing-gender-based-violence/

We applaud the Bangsamoro Darul-Ifta for issuing a fatwa that declares forcing women to marry their perpetrator as haram or forbidden under the Shariah or Islamic law.

Photo of Lot Felizco of Oxfam Pilipinas speaking at the Quezon City (QC) Local Government Unit at the Transformative Care Policy and Practice Conference, organized by the QC Gender and Development Office in partnership with UN Women, on 12 March 2026. For more info on care work, care work pioneer Oxfam Pilipinas, care programming, care work policy advocacy, and care work policy champions, visit oxfam.org.ph

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

Kaisa ang Oxfam Pilipinas sa pagdiriwang ng Eid’l Fit’r o pagtatapos ng Ramadan ngayon, 21 Marso 2026. Alinsunod sa diwa ng panahong ito, dalangin namin ang pangmatagalang kapayapaan sa Bangsamoro at sa buong mundo. (Larawan ng Cotabato Grand Mosque: Patrick Roque)

Oxfam Pilipinas, Local Climate Change Adaptation for Development, and the UP Resilience Institute are set to collaborate to integrate anticipatory action into local climate adaptation planning and conduct a parametric insurance study to support disaster risk financing.

Photo of the Eastern Samar Provincial Government, the Local Governments of Borongan City and Dolores, and Oxfam Pilipinas Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony. The partnership will integrate renewable energy and just energy transition into local development plans and activities. The partnership supports the development of resilient and inclusive renewable energy solutions tailored to local needs, promote the active participation of women and vulnerable groups in energy transition decisions, enhance community awareness of renewable energy options, and secure funding and legal support to implement the initiatives. For more info on just transition, just energy transition examples, and just energy transition Philippines pioneer, visit https://oxfam.org.ph/what-we-do/just-energy-transition/

In a significant move toward just energy transition, the Eastern Samar Provincial Government, the Local Governments of Borongan City and Dolores, and Oxfam Pilipinas signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will integrate renewable energy and just energy transition into local development plans and activities.

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Forcing a woman to marry her perpetrator now forbidden under Shari’ah law

Oxfam Pilipinas showcases decade-long care wins in QC confab

Eid Mubarak!

Oxfam Pilipinas, LCCAD, UP Resilience Institute bare deal to embed anticipatory action in local planning

Eastern Samar LGUs, Oxfam Pilipinas ink just energy transition deal