This publication provides an overview of Oxfam Pilipinas’ localization strategic agenda by outlining its vision, objectives, and strategic approaches to promoting and implementing more locally led humanitarian and development efforts. It serves as a guiding document for program stakeholders, including partner organizations, donors, and community groups, to understand Oxfam Pilipinas’ commitment to equitable and sustainable local engagement.

The View from Local Actors At the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, governments, people affected by crises, civil society, private sector, UN agencies, international organizations, and other humanitarian actors came together and committed to changes that would make life-saving action more effective. Among the commitments was to strengthen local humanitarian systems, a commitment that […]

Local humanitarian actors are on the brink of what could be a revolutionary movement in the global humanitarian space, which is still dominated by huge and powerful international players. In the Philippines, this movement started way before the Typhoon Haiyan catastrophe of 2013. For many communities in the country, local humanitarian actors were always at […]