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Ma. Lorena Dagatan, Area Team Leader of Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), shares her insights and reflections about the accomplishments of Project ALERT in 2018-2020 during the Annual Impact Review. (Photo: Leah Payud/Oxfam)

Learning from Learning Reviews: Lessons learned about conducting project impact reviews

The Annual Impact Review (AIR) is a project learning activity envisioned as a space for Project ALERT implementers to critically track and reflect on the project’s progress, agreed strategies and changes that could be observed and experienced over time in relation to the project’s interventions.

Stories of Resilience: Hasna

Under the scorching heat, a lady holding a megaphone with a loudspeaker beside her goes around Datu Abdullah Sangki (DAS), Maguindanao in a tricycle. The lady informs the residents of the importance of face masks, face shields, proper handwashing, and social distancing to prevent the spread of...

Oxfam Pilipinas Brochure 2021

Oxfam Pilipinas: Who We Are We at Oxfam Pilipinas are dreaming and working for a future where Filipinos are free from poverty. Our dream is for a country that is resilient, where gender justice and active citizenship thrive. For more than 30 years, serving in a country where close to 27 million now...

Stitching Up the Economic Wound of COVID-19: The Women Sewers of Kamuning Public Market

The Kamuning Public Market was closed last March when an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) was declared to slow the spread of COVID-19. Only food vendors were allowed to sell. Seamstresses like 61-year-old Lina Arroyo had to stay at home--a mandate she found hard to follow.

The COVID-19 Roadblock: Community quarantines isolated communities but cut farmers off from markets and consumers

The New Normal Food Chain: App + Favorite Fruit Vendor + Neighborhood Tricycle Driver

Market vendors needed to sell to their customers confined at home. Motorized rickshaw drivers needed a new route to earn money. An app and a community initiative brought them all together.

Yolanda on my mind: the odyssey of a humanitarian worker

Humanitarian workers are regularly confronted by difficult choices. What humanitarian worker worth his or her salt has not been confronted by the possibility of either doing harm or doing nothing; or was stuck in a situation where good intentions are not enough in the face of bad or worse options?...

Going Digital: Making financial services accessible to rural areas

In a covered court in the middle of a rice field in Tacloban City, Philippines, cooperative banker-development worker Ramil Boniel is helping Oxfam award insurance plans to families, many of whom were displaced by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. The insurance plans are incentives for members who...