Annual Report 2020

The past year was truly like no other. The tail end of the fiscal year saw the beginnings of lockdowns; disruptions of global and local supply chains; and changes — both big and small — to our everyday lives. Through it all, Oxfam Pilipinas remained committed to our mandate of providing life-saving assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable communities affected by emergencies and disasters, including COVID-19 pandemic.

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DEPRIVE, a federation of people'sorganizations working with urban poor communities together with PHILSSA in Quezon City, hasalready pre-positioned their emergency response equipment in preparation for Typhoon Rolly. Photo Credit: PHILSSA/AKKMA

Typhoon Rolly will test local humanitarian leadership – Oxfam

Oxfam and partners Humanitarian Response Consortium, Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies, Aksyon sa Kahandaan sa Kalamidad at Klima, People's Disaster Risk Reduction Network, Inc., and Community Organizers Multiversity are monitoring and preparing for the onslaught of Typhoon Rolly (...

Towards a Better Normal: A Study on Inequalities and the Lack of Human Development in the Philippines

It is almost cliché to say that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But it is a socio-economic reality that cannot be ignored. In the Philippines, statistics show that the number of billionaires and the wealth they accumulate is constantly rising while more and more people are living in...

‘Wealthiest use up 4x more carbon than half the population, causing climate crisis’ – study

The huge disparity between the rich and the poor is not only apparent in social status, but also in the way they affect climate. A study reveals that the wealthiest 10 percent of South East Asians, in countries like the Philippines, are responsible for a third of the national carbon consumptions,...