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Reflections on Humanitarian Work in Asia

In the heart of Asia, a region where cultures and landscapes intersect, humanitarian challenges manifest in diverse and complex ways.The growing dangers of climate change are becoming increasingly…

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Fostering regional disaster risk governance in South Asia

Disaster risk governance is key to effective planning, financing, implementation, and monitoring of progress towards resilience. While local context matters, there is growing evidence on the…

Oxfam in Asia - Press Release - ADB Annual Meetings Fiji 2019

Financing the future we need

While the threats and risks the Asia Pacific face from climate change are well known, the recent IPCC report tells us the worst is yet to come. We urge Asia Pacific leaders gathering at the…

Oxfam - The World Bank meets in Indonesia, days after the ominous wake-up call of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degrees report. From prolonged droughts in Afghanistan to floods across the entirety of South Asia and mega typhoons in the Philippines, Asia has felt the brunt of climate change firsthand. The number of disasters in the region continues to increase both in quantity and devastation, leaving millions of women, men, and children without food and water and displaced from t

To empower Asian clean energy ambitions, the development banks must act now!

The number of disasters in Asia continues to increase both in quantity and devastation, leaving millions without food and water and displaced from their homes. We’re less than a half a degree…

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Rising temperatures will push millions of people into poverty unless governments take swift action

Climate change has set our planet on fire, millions are already feeling the impacts, and the IPCC just showed that things can get much worse.

Oxfam in Asia - Sri Lanka - Helping Rice Farmers Cope with Natural Disasters - Weather Index Insurance

Helping Rice Farmers Cope with Natural Disaster: Weather Index Insurance

In Eastern Sri Lanka, natural disasters like floods and droughts often damage or destroy the harvests of rice farmers. For a majority of them, paddy cultivation is their only income, and this climate…

Oxfam in Asia - Philippines - A Climate of Difficult Choices

A Climate of Difficult Choices

The international community has failed to deliver climate finance at the scale required for vulnerable countries like the Philippines to adapt to climate change. Urgent scale up and…

Oxfam in Asia - Pakistan - Hakim Mai, An Inspiring Climate Change Fighter

Hakim Mai, an inspiring climate change fighter

Meet Hakim Mai, a 27 year old mother of two small children living in the Multan District of the Punjab Province in Pakistan.

Oxfam in Asia - Stories - Timor Leste - Weathering Climate Change in Timor Leste

Weathering Climate Change in Timor Leste – Reducing the Impacts of Climate Change on Communities

Watch our short film that shows the human face of climate change adaptation in Timor-Leste.

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