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Women Journeying towards Peace: Ensuring Meaningful Participation and Economic Empowerment of the Bangsamoro Islamic Women Auxiliary Brigade (BIWAB) and Bangsamoro Women

After years in revolutionary struggle, how can the Bangsamoro Islamic Women Auxiliary Brigade (BIWAB) reintegrate meaningfully into society? After years of living in conflict, how are the needs of civilian Bangsamoro being addressed?
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A woman pushes a wooden cart used to carry water containers in Salcedo, Eastern Samar (Photo: Jed Regala/Oxfam)

Financing for Development in the Philippines

As the Philippines approaches upper-middle-income status, it continues to face the challenge of fighting poverty and economic and gender inequalities, while also confronting COVID-19.
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Oxfam Pilipinas - Annual Report 2021

We at Oxfam Pilipinas dream of and work towards a future free from poverty and injustice. We strive to keep women’s rights at the heart of everything we do. Thank you to our partners, supporters, and donors who make this possible.
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Spouses Romulo and Pastora Samson share care responsibilities at a local river and public laundry site in Barangay Santo Nino, Quinapondan, Eastern Samar. Access to clean water is a challenge for their community of farmers and fisherfolk because they need to take several trips to the river to bathe, collect water for the household, or wash their clothes. Now, with their local government recently enacting an ordinance on unpaid care work, their barangay must provide them with easier access to a safer water s

CARE WORK MATTERS: A Participatory Approach to Advocating for the Recognition and Redistribution of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in Local Legislation

In the Philippines, a country extremely vulnerable to natural hazards and climate-related disasters, which exacerbate poverty and preexisting social vulnerabilities, women and girls do up to five to six times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men.
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At the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, governments, people affected by crises, civil society, private sector, UN agencies, international organizations, and other humanitarian actors came together and committed to changes that would make life-saving action more effective. Among the commitments was to strengthen local humanitarian systems, a commitment that Oxfam embraces. This study synthesizes the experience, practice and learning of Oxfam Philippines in its local humanitarian leadership approach and

Local Humanitarian Leadership

At the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, governments, people affected by crises, civil society, private sector, UN agencies, international organizations, and other humanitarian actors came together and committed to changes that would make life-saving action more effective. Among the...
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