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Website banner with QR code of UN ESCAP and Oxfam's Caring Entrepreneurs in ASEAN grant program. The grant will be open to small businesses and local partners supporting communities directly in running their small businesses. Please note that this grant cannot cover any subcontracting activities. The grant will be open to initiatives in ASEAN countries. The grant would give a particular preference to 1. Care enterprises and paid care models: Small and medium care enterprises or community-based initiatives that involve paid care work, across a variety of models and services, such as care for children, older persons or persons with disabilities, and including digital-enabled care enterprises, on-demand, in-person or centre-based services for families or corporations. 2. Care-responsive business practices: Initiatives where small and/or medium enterprises test approaches to address the care responsibilities of workers and entrepreneurs, such as workplace care solutions, flexible arrangements, or partnerships with care providers Applicants must be legally registered entities in their country of operation and able to comply with basic due diligence requirements if selected. Women led, women owned, and community based enterprises are strongly encouraged to apply. For more info, visit oxfam.org.ph.

Call for Expressions of Interest: Caring Entrepreneurs in ASEAN

April 23, 2026

Are you a small or medium-sized business, social enterprise, or community-based initiative invested in addressing unpaid care and domestic work through entrepreneurship? If yes, this grant may be for you.

CSOs urge ASEAN Energy Ministers to adopt 9-point Agenda for APAEC 2026-2030

June 24, 2025

The 3rd Southeast Asia Collaborative Convening of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on Just Energy Transition was participated by about 50 CSOs in June 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo from Fair Finance Asia and Oxfam Pilipinas.

ASEAN Energy Ministers commit to intensify Just and Inclusive Renewable Energy collaboration in the region

October 14, 2024

At AEBF-24, Oxfam joined the call of civil society organizations in urging ASEAN leaders for more ambitious targets on RE and to implement a fast transition to these sources.