In the Philippines, women and girls face persistent barriers, including gender inequality, limited decision-making power, entrenched norms about women’s roles, and restricted access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Harmful practices like child marriage, restrictive parental consent laws, and the criminalization of abortion exacerbate these challenges. In response, the Sexual Health and Empowerment […]

This report delved into the challenges and opportunities for just transition in Southeast Asia’s transport and agricultural subsectors, given that together, these sectors contribute twenty four percent (24%) of total emissions in the region, and interventions to decarbonize these subsectors are beginning to take shape. This study aims to (1) assess the extent to which current policies, practices, and initiatives in the region related to transport and agricultural subsectors incorporate transition principles, and (2) propose recommendations for a more inclusive and transformative transition.

Unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) is performed around the world disproportionately by women and girls. Oxfam is committed to alleviating this burden of unpaid care and domestic work and to elevating the discourse on the value of UCDW’s contribution to society. As part of its continuing efforts to contribute to enhanced public policy around UCDW, Oxfam partnered with the University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs’ Integration Lab (i-Lab) to conduct a pilot study and populate Oxfam’s Care Policy Scorecard in the Philippines in order to determine milestones and gaps in the country’s unpaid care policy landscape.

The Food Hives to Nourishing Cities Project is being implemented by Oxfam Pilipinas, together with partners Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) and AGREA Agricultural Communities International Foundation Inc. The project aims to establish regenerative, just, and nourishing food systems. This document is an abridged version of a report prepared by Dante Dalabajan for Oxfam Pilipinas.

The Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines: Case for Action report provides a situational analysis of where there are risks of adverse ecological and social impacts in utility-scale renewable energy value chains, how such risks are currently being managed, and where there is potential for renewable energy system actors to take collaborative action to create the requisite norms for responsible practices.

Overview The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty […]