Building Disaster Resilient Communities Through Women’s Leadership

Women in Nepal and the Philippines, along with those in other Asian countries, suffer disproportionately from disasters caused by natural hazards yet are excluded from…

Asia Community Preparedness and Transformation (ACT) Learning Brief

Asia Community Preparedness and Transformation (ACT) Program recently had its regional learning workshop hosted by Oxfam Pilipinas. The weeklong event was attended by 42 participants…

Fatima Gomez is overcoming challenges of living in the dry corridor of El Salvador.

This is part of the Building Community Preparedness for Disaster Response and Recovery in Central America project, implemented by Oxfam in El Salvador with partner…

Locally Led Emergency Response Fund (LL-ERF) Project: Experiences from Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, and Uganda

This report contains learning from a pilot implementation of the Locally Led Emergency Response Fund (LL-ERF) Project in three countries. The LL-ERF is a funding…

Listen and act before it’s too late

Women and girls on the front lines of climate change are in deep crisis; the COP 28 discussions about loss and damage need to address…

Suffering, and a whisper of hope: women and the climate crisis.

As nations discuss compensation for climate-related losses and damage, they need to understand what women in the most at-risk communities are going through. Read the…

Gendered Dimensions of Loss and Damage in Asia

Setting up a fund for loss and damage is one of the achievements of COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. However, ambiguity remains…

As Local as Possible, as International as Necessary: Understanding Capacity and Complementarity in Humanitarian Action

It argues that defining and assessing capacity is not a technical exercise but a political one; that issues of capacity are not new to the…

Going Local: Achieving a More Appropriate and Fit-For-Purpose Humanitarian Ecosystem in the Pacific

This report presents the findings of research conducted across the Pacific region in 2017 on the localisation of humanitarian action. Findings respond to the main…

Local Aid Groups Want More of a Say in the Rohingya Refugee Response

In Bangladesh, grassroots groups feel overshadowed despite being the backbone of the massive aid effort.Rohingya children play under a half-mangled roof of twisted tin sheets…

Perspectives from Local Women-led Organizations and Women's Rights Organizations

To an unprecedented extent, the COVID-19 crisis has forced a recognition of the central role played by national and local organisations in humanitarian action. Local…

A Feminist Approach to Localization

A feminist approach to localization would seek to further tackle power imbalances and patriarchal structures in humanitarian action by shifting power to national and local…

Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors

Local humanitarian leadership is built upon the premise that humanitarian action should be led by local humanitarian actors whenever possible, yet this research finds that…

Local Humanitarian Leadership: The View from Local Actors

The global call for localization and locally led emergency response acknowledges the reality that the humanitarian system is currently organized around international actors. More than…

The State of Local Humanitarian Leadership: A learning report on a series of LHL online convenings held in Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Pacific, and West Africa

From May 2021 to January 2022, Oxfam, in partnership with Sejajar Indonesia, the Tamdeen Youth Foundation in Yemen, and the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association (PARC)…

Funding the Frontline: How an Oxfam Emergency Response Fund facilitated local humanitarian action

From 2014 to 2020 Oxfam embedded an Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in its multiyear disaster risk reduction programs in Asia-Pacific and Central America. The Oxfam…

Local Humanitarian Leadership in Burkina Faso

This report looks at the marginalization faced by local actors in the humanitarian response in Burkina Faso. It examines the causes and challenges of their…