Research

Oxfam Pilipinas Learning Brief: Social Accountability Summit

May 8, 2025

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.

Communiqué: Oxfam Pilipinas’ 6th MELSA Bootcamp

May 8, 2025

This communiqué reports on the 6th in-person MELSA Bootcamp that took place in Quezon City, Philippines on February 26-27, 2025, and which provided a significant opportunity for Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Social Accountability (MELSA) officers and program focal points to engage in internal reflection and learning. As Oxfam Pilipinas prepares to integrate as a full affiliate of the Oxfam global confederation, the bootcamp concentrated on assessing the organization’s evolving MELSA systems and practices, drawing some valuable insights and lessons, and identifying key areas for enhancement in the coming years.

Transforming Partnerships: A Learning Review of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Strategic Partnership Model

April 3, 2025

This publication presents a learning review of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Strategic Partnership Model (SPM) that reflects on its experiences, challenges, and lessons from the past five years. It offers insights from Oxfam Pilipinas and its program partners on the evolving dynamics of development partnerships, local leadership, and transformative collaboration. The review aims to inform future strategic partnerships for impactful social change in the Philippines.

SHE RISES: Stories of change from people and communities of the Sexual Health and Empowerment project

December 11, 2024

Beyond the numbers, SHE Rises: Stories of Change captures stories of women finding their strength, men becoming allies, youth leading change, and health providers embracing inclusive care under the Sexual Health and Empowerment project. It highlights communities challenging harmful norms and systems, demonstrating that meaningful change is possible. Let us listen to their stories, honor their experiences, and carry forward the lessons from this remarkable journey.

Just Transition in Southeast Asia: Advancing People-centered and Equitable Transformation in the Agriculture and Transportation Sector

October 4, 2024

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.

The Philippines’ Unpaid Care Policy Landscape: Key Findings and Insights from the Pilot Care Policy Scorecard Assessment

May 23, 2024

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.

Women Nourishing Cities: Recipes for transforming the urban food systems of the Philippines

May 6, 2024

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.

Renewable Energy to Responsible Energy: A Call to Action

January 26, 2024

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.

CARE IS ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE : The Case of the Philippines

November 29, 2023

Research Brief The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the dependence of our societies on systems of care and caregiving to survive and thrive. This support system, however, has been mostly unpaid if not totally unrecognized for far too long. Its resulting negative effects have disproportionately affected women and girls around the world, especially in the […]

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

November 22, 2023

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 […]