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.