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Pre-disaster financial services critical during pandemic, study shows

Financial inclusion and increased social protection are critical as the Philippines is experiencing an economic downturn brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the series of disasters that hit the country in 2020.

VP Leni leads Oxfam, PCW, UN Women’s virtual march to drumbeat upcoming Women’s Month

Vice President Leni Robredo together with other women leaders and women’s rights advocates kicked off the International Women’s Day celebration ahead of March 8 with a virtual march spotlighting the role of women at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

House-to-house card distribution in Brgy. Bugak (Photo: Myleen Ogana/PDRRN)

Building Elements of Sustainable Disaster Risk Financing Strategy: A Scoping Study Report

Initial evidence from the B-READY (Building Resilient, Adaptive andDisaster Ready Communities) Project indicates that strategic investments in preparedness activities could result in lesser spending on recovery efforts, as well as improve the disaster-vulnerable population’s capacity to manage...

Elizabeth Asanion, 45, wears her protective goggles during a relief operation conducted by Community Organizers Multiversity, with support from Oxfam Philippines, titled Care4Wife: COVID-19 Assistance and Response to Emergency Needs for Women in Informal Economy in Namapa Compound, Barangay North Fairview in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. 9 June 2020. (Original photo by Basilio Sepe, illustrated by Vina Salazar)

Safety in Solidarity: How Understanding the Gendered Needs of Communities Means Safety for All

In this briefing note, Nastasia L. Tysmans highlights four key insights from the report which ought to urge us even more to integrate practices of solidarity into ongoing efforts to respond to COVID-19. It’s not too late to implement a gender-sensitive and effective decision-making strategy to...

“The strength of my resolve to champion the rights of young women and girls is far greater than any fear of challenging long-held cultural practices or beliefs. If we will not stand up for our human rights, who else will?”, said campaigner Sittie Mohamad of Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation, a women’s rights organization based in Lanao del Sur campaigning to end child marriage in the Philippines. (Photo was taken in March 2020, before the Covid-19 lockdown) Photo Credit: Vina Salazar/Oxfam

Girls Not Brides – weaving the ‘evidence quilt’ for gender transformative law reform

Girls have been given much reason to hope in the Philippines. This November, a historic first, the Senate unanimously approved the Girls Not Brides bill, which proposes to criminalize child marriage .

Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health care starts with robust data

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, women's choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care have been deprioritized and ignored.

Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award 2020-21

Calling all Journalists from Asia to submit your entries for the 2020-21 Journalism for an Equitable Asia Award , which encourages more journalists to write for a fairer Asia that works for all its people!

iAFFORD: The Google Impact Challenge winner project of Oxfam in partnership with PayMaya wins a Silver Anvil Award

The innovative partnership between Oxfam, government, local non-government organisation, and financial technology firm, PayMaya and Smart Padala to help improve disaster preparedness and recovery of poor and most vulnerable communities through addressing multiple barriers to financial inclusion...

International Women's Day 2021

Oxfam, with its commitment of putting gender at the core of its work, will once again join the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021. Thru the IWD 2021, Oxfam will express its vision of gender justice through a campaign on women in leadership in the time of a global pandemic, in...

Oxfam Pilipinas SHE Network calls for Unhampered delivery of SRHR services during COVID19

The SHE Network Advocates for the Continuous Delivery of RH Services During the COVID-19 ECQ

SHE Network for COVID19.png SHE Network for COVID19.png The Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) network is advocating for the continued and unhampered delivery of reproductive health (RH) services during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). The provision of RH services is life-saving and should...