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Keeping the Door Open: The Story of Mikee Payuran-Gonda

September 2, 2026

In Balagtas, the absence of women in the Municipal Council became Mikee Payuran-Gonda’s motivation to stay, speak up, and make space for others. Rather than

A Journey of Courage and Care: The Story of Sadaf Ajmal

In Balochistan, where women with disabilities face both gender and disability discrimination, Sadaf Ajmal found her purpose through her own family. When her sister

A Journey of Grit and Leadership: The Story of Rahima Sultana Kazal

In Bangladesh, calling someone “Apa”, elder sister, is a mark of deep communal trust and respect. That Rahima Sultana Kazal is known everywhere as

The Middle Path: How Hnuni Transformed Tradition into Tribal Leadership

Zir Than Hnuni’s path from silence to leadership in Myanmar’s Chin State is a story of remarkable resilience in the face of both patriarchal

The Heart of Leadership: Riris and the Flower Aceh Journey

Riswati, known as Riris, began her journey not in a boardroom but in the streets of Jakarta as a student activist advocating for peaceful

Colouring the System: Bringing a Feminist Heart to Humanitarian Aid

Khotimun Sutanti, known as Imun, is a woman of quiet defiance and deep conviction. A survivor of the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, she witnessed firsthand

The Pulse of the Market: Nani’s Journey to Feminist Humanitarian Leadership

Sarni Siyauta, known as Nani, discovered her path to humanitarian leadership through a chance encounter on the streets of Ambon, where a mentor recognized

SHIFT ASIA Learning Report: Sessions 1-3

The SHIFT Asia Learning Sessions were convened as part of the second phase of the Supporting Humanitarian Initiatives for Transformation in Asia (SHIFT Asia)

Emergency Response Fund Agility: Evaluating a Locally Led Humanitarian Funding Model

This evaluative research studies Oxfam’s Emergency Response Fund (ERF) Agility, a funding model designed to be accessible to local actors that was piloted in

A Decade of the Grand Bargain: Localization, Power Shifts, and the Future of Humanitarian Action

The LHL Network convened humanitarian practitioners and localization advocates from Asia Pacific and Africa online to reflect on 10 years of the Grand Bargain. While participants recognized

Exploring Evidence for Gender Justice — and Women’s Power to Deliver

This research pack brings together Oxfam studies and evidence that explore how inequality, poverty, climate crisis, pandemics and conflict disproportionately affect women, girls, and

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

Locally Led Humanitarian Response Networks Learning Brief

This brief explores how locally led humanitarian response networks are reshaping the way aid is delivered—placing local and national actors at the center of

Participatory Grantmaking Workshop Report

Discover key insights from a multi-stakeholder workshop on Participatory Grantmaking (PGM) held last November 2025, which emphasize practical models that empower local communities in decision-making.

Roadmap for Feminist Local Humanitarian Leadership

Oxfam in Asia and its partners recognize that gender and power inequalities persist both incrisis-affected communities and within the humanitarian system. These inequalities arehistorically

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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