The Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits, Inc. (ECOWEB) and partners call for more community led solutions and better complementation of efforts for rebuilding lives and livelihoods of population heavily affected…

Continue ReadingJoining Hands for Mindanao: Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods After the LPA Inundation

Joining Hands for Mindanao: Rebuilding Lives and Livelihoods After the LPA Inundation

Statement on the Marawi Bombing Incident We at the Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (ECOWEB) are in solidarity with all the Muslims and Christians in Marawi City and the whole…

Continue ReadingLocals as First Responder and Key for Building Sustainable Peace 

Locals as First Responder and Key for Building Sustainable Peace 

RIVERSIDE, Mahayahay, Iligan City—Weighed down from carrying 2 sacks of 5-kilo rice and grocery bags, their sweat mingled with raindrops trickling on their brows, a smiling middle-aged mother took a…

Continue ReadingEcoWEB’s SCLR approach enables flood-affected communities to bounce back with dignity 

EcoWEB’s SCLR approach enables flood-affected communities to bounce back with dignity 

The lack of consultative mechanism and coordination with concern interagency for post-disaster resettlement inspired homeless disaster-affected families in barangay Ayala to assert the proper provision of relocation site and for…

Continue ReadingHomeless SHG demand for relocation site before eviction from evacuation camp

Homeless SHG demand for relocation site before eviction from evacuation camp

Organized self-help group (SHG) in Calle San Vicente did not only devote their functional roles in survivor and community-led response (sclr) to support their members to access humanitarian services. They…

Continue ReadingSelf-help group in Calle San Vicente led for mental health support, too

Self-help group in Calle San Vicente led for mental health support, too

ECOWEB, Inc. joins with the global community in the celebration of #WorldHumanitarianDay highlighting the contributions of extraordinary volunteers, professionals, and a community of people, #thehumanrace, sharing their valuable resources, time,…

Continue ReadingIt Takes A Village to Save Lives and Build Community Resilience

It Takes A Village to Save Lives and Build Community Resilience

This toolkit has been prepared by the Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (ECOWEB), Inc. in partnership with Oxfam Pilipinas and Philippine Preparedness Partnership (PhilPREP) thru the Center for Disaster Preparedness…

Continue ReadingToolkit on the Conduct of Dialogue on Localization of Humanitarian Actions: The Philippine Experience 2021

Toolkit on the Conduct of Dialogue on Localization of Humanitarian Actions: The Philippine Experience 2021

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Atoyay, Socorro, Surigao del Norte They are not even neighbors. They don't belong to the same barangay, although all of them…

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The Women of Atoyay

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Ilihan, Matam-is, Del  Carmen, Surigao del Norte Jayson Mullet, 32, a businessman and resident of Ilihan, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte,…

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Tubig

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Lawigan, Barangay Salog, Socorro, Surigao del Norte “Mora’g buhawi (like a hurricane),” was how barangay chairman Jorlito Bayeta, 62, described…

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MORA’G BUHAWI