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Grace Moñera holds a curtain made out of bamboo at a small shop in Tabango town in Leyte province, south of Manila, Philippines. Photo: Basilio Sepe / Oxfam Pilipinas
Grace Moñera, 32, was just a child when her father first taught her how to cut bamboo and turn them into amakan or woven split-bamboo mats that are commonly used as wall paneling for traditional houses in some parts of rural Philippines. Knowing this craft has allowed her to earn extra money as she...
Marivic Dubria inspects coffee cherries on her family’s 2-hectare farm in Bansalan town, Davao del Sur. Dubria is among the farmer trainees of Coffee for Peace, a social enterprise that is a member of the Poverty Reduction through Social Entrepreneurship (PRESENT) Coalition, which is a partner of Oxfam Pilipinas under The Gender Transforma-tive and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South East Asia (GRAISEA) program. Photo by Roy Lagarde / Oxfam Pilipinas
DAVAO CITY — Marivic and Joe Randy Dubria live in a farming village in Bansalan, Davao del Sur, at the foothills of the Mt. Apo, the highest mountain in the Philippines. The couple worked hard but they struggled to make ends meet. Vegetable farming brought little income while Marivic’s take home...
Alvin Ocena lives in a humble and small house on the outskirts of Malobago village in Dolores, a rural town in the Philippines' Eastern Samar province. When disasters strike, they often lose their homes and properties on which their survival depends.
A month ago, Marianne Penido borrowed Php 500 from “Reyna ng Tahanan” (Queen of the Home)—a self-help group (SHeG)—in the coastal town of Dolores in the province of Eastern Samar.
Dolores Basijan bought medicines, mineral water and other stuff after she received an amount of Php 1,800 from the B-Ready project preemptive cash assistance. (Photo: Alren Beronio/Oxfam)
Despite the gloomy weather and the threat of an approaching storm, Dolores Basijan could not help but smile on her way out of a remittance center. The 41-year-old mother immediately proceeded to the public market in Salcedo town in Eastern Samar to buy some necessities for her family, including a...
An emergency disaster preparedness meeting was held at the Municipal building together with the Inter-agency taskforce of Salcedo, on December 13, 2021. (Photo: Alren Beronio/Oxfam)
The coastal municipality of Salcedo, with a population of more than 22,000 people in its 41 barangays, is one of the areas in the province of Eastern Samar that is frequently hit by calamities, particularly typhoons. This requires its local government unit (LGU) to strengthen preparedness measures...
Brgy. Chairman Sentino Uy, 48, secured the safety of his constituents who evacuated in Brgy. Palanas, Salcedo, E. Samar. (Photo: Alren Beronio/Oxfam)
Severgillo Abellar is a village councilor of Buabua in Salcedo town, Eastern Samar province. He is also one of the many people included in the Building Resilient, Adaptive, and Disaster Ready Communities (B-READY) project of Oxfam Pilipinas and its partners.
Naty Pernito, 38, a local resident of Brgy. Bagtong Salcedo prepares emergency kit days before the expected landfall of Typhoon Rai. (Photo: Alren Beronio/Oxfam)
When Naty Pernito learned that their town of Salcedo in Eastern Samar province was on track to be affected by typhoon ‘Odette’ (international name: Rai), she could not help but get anxious.
Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Matarinao, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)
“Everything begins with the science,” says Global Parametrics founder Professor Jerry Skees. B-READY was Global Parametrics’ first involvement in a project that values and operationalizes communityparticipation in anticipatory financing for DRR.
The Philippines is where the B-READY concept was born and developed. The experience of Oxfam in cashtransfer programming in the country specially during the humanitarian response in the aftermath of STY Haiyanand the connectivity to Global Parametrics led to the pilot implementation of the B-READY...

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