Research

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 […]

Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund Utilization Patterns and Opportunities for Improvement: The cases of Local Government Units Virac and Dolores, Philippines

November 8, 2023

This study looks into the disaster risk reduction and management policy framework and practice in the Philippines, particularly the budget performance of the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF) provided for by Republic Act 10121 or the PDRRM Act of 2010.

Care is Essential Infrastructure: The Case of the Philippines

May 29, 2023

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 Global South.

Care Work in the Time of COVID-19: Addressing Gender Norms in the Philippine BPO Industry

August 28, 2022

Baseline Report   As the number of COVID-19 cases increased dramatically at the height of the pandemic, so did the demand for invisible and unpaid labor when most people were forced to stay home during periods of lockdown and community quarantine. Consequently, women and girls bore most of the burden. Yet, while this was the […]

CARE WORK MATTERS: A Participatory Approach to Advocating for the Recognition and Redistribution of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in Local Legislation

June 30, 2021

In the Philippines, a country extremely vulnerable to natural hazards and climate-related disasters, which exacerbate poverty and preexisting social vulnerabilities, women and girls do up to five to six times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men. There is growing recognition that the billions of hours of the most essential work, including heavy […]