Stories

Hope and courage in the face of disasters

As an active volunteer and mother-leader herself, there is nothing else that she desires more than her familyand community’s safety in times of calamities and disasters, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Preparedness through Disaster Risk Reduction Governance

With its vision of modeling a safer, adaptive, anddisaster risk-resilient municipality, the municipality of Salcedo in Eastern Samar province was chosen as the pilot implementation area for the B-READY Project. Home toalmost 23,000 individuals that make up around 5,000households, the fifth-class...

Residents of Barangay Asgad, Salcedo, Eastern Samar participates in the B-READY Users’ Orientation led by the People’s Disaster Risk Reduction Network. (Photo: Jhomar Padullo/PDRRN)

B-READY for a paradigm shift

Oxfam’s B-READY initiative combines an early warning system for typhoons with digital financial inclusion in helping vulnerable communities. The initiative is powered by strengthened disaster governance.

Filipino men log more care work hours due to pandemic but bulk of tasks still fall on women — survey

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic forcing families to spend more time at home, Filipinas are still bearing the brunt of unpaid care work.

Rosario Agabon, 56, has been working in a plantation over the last three years de-leafing bananas. (Photo: Larry Piojo/Oxfam)

The need for urgent relief for women smallholder farmers

The Philippine economy has fallen into its first recession in two decades due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While some countries have seen more positive results in containing the virus, other countries were unable to adopt the necessary strategies to mitigate the negative impacts of Covid-19 on its...

Pasya Advocazine (Issue 1)

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations and groups working in SRHR in the Philippines have sounded the alarm on the possible negative effects the pandemic will have on people’s SRHR. This article was originally published on wgnrr.org.

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...

Esni Haya, pictured here holding her four-month-old baby, has been living in the Sarimanok Evacuation Center for more than two years since the Marawi Siege. She shared with us her experiences of displacement; the challenges evacuees face in accessing WASH and other basic facilities; and her dreams of homecoming. Oxfam led the initial case study research in the three major island groups of the Philippines to co-create a shared understanding of context-specific issues that must be included in policy developme

Oxfam-developed WASH policy draft approved by the Philippine Department of Health

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) issued Administrative Order 2020-0032, entitled "National Policy on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Emergencies and Disasters", in July 2020. Once fully implemented, local health offices and local government units will be better...

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...