The toolkit provides a structured curriculum for local governments, civil society organizations, and community leaders to plan and implement anticipatory action before disasters strike. It details the use of impact-based forecast triggers, inclusive and community-led approaches, and conflict-sensitive practices to guide early interventions. Covering legal frameworks, risk assessment, and operational tools, the guide aims to help practitioners design and deliver effective, equitable responses in the critical window before impact.

Barangays are the first line of protection when disasters strike, yet incomplete utilization records, fragmented government oversight and limited technical capacity can prevent disaster funds from being used strategically to protect communities. Focusing on 12 barangays across six municipalities in Eastern Samar and Catanduanes, this study examines how Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Funds […]

This participatory storybook grew out of a five-month journey with the members of the Hilabaan Women’s Association and the Linao Women Fish Vendor’s Association from Eastern Samar. Together with researchers from the College of Development Communication (CDC) of the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Oxfam Pilipinas, they shared their stories, reflected on their experiences, and helped enlighten what has changed in their lives and communities with electricity from renewable energy.

This report examines progress, gaps, and opportunities that exist in the intersections of governance, justice, and energy transition in Southeast Asia by examining the role of Social Accountability (SAcc) in utility-scale energy transition projects. Download this compressed interactive copy. The report is also available in full resolution and through an executive summary.

This report examines progress, gaps, and opportunities that exist in the intersections of governance, justice, and energy transition in Southeast Asia by examining the role of Social Accountability (SAcc) in utility-scale energy transition projects.

This policy paper examines the persistent issue of inequality in the Philippines and underscores the urgency of integrating equality into the country’s economic agenda. The paper critiques the conventional thinking of having economic growth as a primary strategy for reducing inequality.

The report, Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster, presents extensive new updated data and analysis which finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.

 The Climate Finance Shadow Report presents analysis of North-South climate finance flows and assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment to inform climate finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and 2023. This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and […]

The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extractivism and exploitation, with the most marginalized paying the highest price while elites profit. From transition mineral mining to debt burdens and unequal energy access, the […]

As a strategic pathway for change that is firmly anchored on a rights-based approach, social accountability informed the emergence of Oxfam Pilipinas as a new national civil society group in the country with a global footprint in the Oxfam confederation. Social accountability refers to citizen-driven monitoring and assessment of public policies, programs and services as well as constructive and critical engagement with powerholders to claim their rights and demand accountability. Midway through their current joint programming, 30 leaders from Oxfam Pilipinas’ four portfolio teams and 11 partner organizations that have carried out or are implementing various social accountability actions with other civil society organizations, sectoral groups and vulnerable communities in the Philippines convened on January 22-23, 2025 in Manila to take stock, draw out insights, and forge new priorities and ways forward. This learning brief outlines key discussion points, insights, and agreed ways forward.