Surfacing localized, decolonial, gender-transformative awareness and understanding of local humanitarian leadership experiences to empower, encourage, and capacitate those who identify as women and other gender minority identities.
Understanding the ways of being of local actors represents a shift away from pre-defined frameworks and definitions, and allows an expansion of what constitutes local humanitarian action.
Importance of mentoring, maintaining networks and communities of support, and uplifting fellow women leaders to establish a more empowering space in the humanitarian sector
Developing resources on transformative local humanitarian leadership
Promoting women Local Humanitarian Leadership (LHL) is one of the priority strategies of Oxfam Pilipinas in its humanitarian programming, alongside its strong commitment to feminist approaches and upholding the feminist principles across all its work. We believe that advancing women local humanitarian leadership (WLHL) is key in achieving transformational impact on women’s rights and gender equality. Thus, this Learning Initiative on LHL and Women’s Leadership is strongly aligned with their regional priorities under two key levers: 1) Partnerships where we promote localization of leadership in humanitarian responses and facilitate support for southern organizations to be front liners, and 2) Thought leadership and the development of extensive knowledge-based practices on gender equality and approaches to increase women’s capacities and voice.
In partnership with Oxfam Pilipinas, Bayi, Inc. implements multiples learning exchange initiatives to surface a localized, decolonial, gender-transformative awareness and understanding of local humanitarian leadership experiences hence eventually influence policies that will encourage and capacitate local humanitarian leaders.
The BAYInihan video will try to answer this question by weaving the personal lives of two selected (2) women leaders with their work as humanitarian leaders. This is in line with the overall objective of the Women in Local Humanitarian Leadership (WLHL) project, in partnership with Oxfam Pilipinas, “to surface a localized, decolonial, gender-transformative awareness and understanding of local humanitarian leadership experiences to eventually influence policies that will encourage and capacitate local humanitarian leaders who are women and from gender minorities.”
Last October 18-19, 2022, Bayi Inc. held the Bayinihan Local Humanitarian Leadership Local Workshop in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte. The local workshop is a one and a half-day onsite
Last October 20-21, 2022, Bayi Inc. held the Bayinihan Local Humanitarian Leadership Local Workshop in Muniticipality of Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte. The local workshop is a one and a
Last October 18-21, 2022, Bayi Inc. held the Bayinihan Local Humanitarian Leadership Local Workshop in Butuan and Siargao. Here, the team was able to surface different experiences of women working
Last April 29-30, Bayi Inc. conducted the Bayinihan Local Humanitarian Leadership Bridging Activity with 11 leaders in the humanitarian sector in their localities. It was a face-to-face activity with the
Last May 1-5, 2023, Bayi Inc. together with Oxfam Pilipinas sent 14 delegates that represented the Philippine cohort in the regional convening on local humanitarian leadership entitled, “Rising Voices: Asia’s
Join us as we influence Philippine policy towards a localized, decolonial, and gender transformative society for leaders who identify as women and other gender minority identities.
