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Oxfam & LenddoEFL partnership to help disaster-hit communities, aligned with BSP initiatives

A financial technology innovation will help more people from remote communities affected by disasters get faster and more convenient access to financial services. The innovation is the result of a partnership between international development organization Oxfam, together with a licensed financial...

Groups combine weather forecast, digital finance to save lives

Humanitarian actors in the Philippines together with the private sector launched an innovation that combines weather parametric forecasting and financial technologies in disaster response. The announcement was made during the launch of the project called “Building Resilient Adaptive and Disaster...

Potentials for China - Philippine Cooperation on Climate Action

Unabated, climate disruptions continue to manifest through extreme weather events such as super typhoons, prolonged drought conditions, and abnormal precipitation patterns, as well as sea level rise and ecosystem disturbances, directly impacting human and non-human lives, communities, and...

Maranao children participate in a stress debriefing session in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur (Photo: Angela Casauay/Oxfam)

Oxfam in the Philippines' Country Strategy 2018 - 2020

On our thirtieth year of presence in the Philippines, we continue to serve the poorest Filipinos through our strategic work and goals on five areas: Economic Justice, Conflict Transformation, Gender Justice, Rights in Crisis and Programme Quality. We aim to achieve these by working hand in hand...

Embracing Community Organizing

Through her role, Elizabeth was able to help the communities access services from the government such as water, electricity, and livelihoods. Her most unforgettable humanitarian response is the all-out-war that happened in Mindanao in 2000, where she saw hope beyond the harsh realities of war.

Bridge of peace in Mindanao

With or without emergencies, Noraida Abo seldom stays at the office of the United Youth of the Philippines-Women (UnYPhil-Women), a local women’s rights organization she currently heads in the southern region of the Philippines. She prefers the outdoors where she experiences first hand the complex...

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...

Reaching remote towns outside Marawi, two months on

How are remote towns doing two months into the Marawi crisis?

Women: Silent no more

Recognizing the role of women in the peace process, the United Youth of the Philippines-Women (UnYPhil-Women) with support from Oxfam in partnership with the Australian Government through the project Women's Empowerment for Leadership in Development and Peace in the Bangsamoro (WELD-Peace),...

Maguindanao is a Forgotten Crisis

When a humanitarian emergency fades from the headlines there is a tendency to forget that many people displaced by armed conflict continue to face difficulties and uncertainties to survive. This World Refugee Day, just like many days before, we stand together with thousands of internally displaced...