We seek lasting change
We at Oxfam Pilipinas are dreaming and working for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty.
For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now live in poverty, we have relied on the power of people to carry out programs designed to achieve our shared vision.
Central to our strategy is working with partners to transform the unequal power relations, structures, norms, and values that cause poverty and inequality, including gender-based violence and injustice. We strive to apply a feminist lens to all our analyses and actions. We seek to save lives, provide access to services, and reduce the impact of disasters, particularly on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged.
In the last five years, we worked with our partners to transform unequal power relations, structures, norms and values that cause poverty and inequality. We have achieved some progress toward this goal in our seven programs:
Women’s Economic Empowerment
We helped women gain access to and control over productive resources so that they could improve their economic status and well-being. This includes addressing the issue of unpaid care work which prevents women and girls from being economically empowered.
Photo: Princess Taroza/Oxfam Pilipinas
Humanitarian Responses
We invested in the ability of Philippine humanitarian actors to act quickly and help those most in need.
Photo: Basilio Sepe/Oxfam Pilipinas
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
We helped communities to be more prepared for extreme and destructive weather events through measures such as early warning systems; resilient agriculture; disaster risk financing; market-based interventions; water, sanitation and hygiene; and initiatives to shift to renewable energy sources.
Photo: Erielle Esturas/Oxfam Pilipinas
Conflict Transformation
We collaborated with stakeholders including women’s rights organizations and lawmakers, to advocate for an end to decades of conflict in Mindanao. We focused on supporting women so that they could fully participate in the peace process and become leaders who would be able shape more inclusive gender norms, laws and policies.
Photo: Princess Taroza/Oxfam Pilipinas
Preventing and Ending Gender-Based Violence
We worked with our communities and partners to stop the practice of child, early and forced marriages. We expanded our networks and supported GBV referral pathways.
Photo: Princess Taroza/Oxfam Pilipinas
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
We established programs aimed at guaranteeing access to reproductive health services and shaping more positive norms and practices toward SRHR. We supported our partners in institutional strengthening activities so that they can become more effective SRHR advocates and practitioners.
Photo: Erwin Mascarinas/Oxfam Pilipinas
Financial Inclusion
We worked to help poor households manage financial stresses through financial literacy activities and affordable digital financial services like savings and micro-insurance.
Photo: John Santizo/Oxfam Pilipinas
