Puerto Rico

Oxfam’s Emergency Response Fund Agility pilot (2021–2025) tested a locally led, rapid-response funding model in Bangladesh, Puerto Rico, and Uganda. The initiative demonstrated that quality, flexible funding—managed by local consortia—can, according to local actors themselves, deliver fast, inclusive, and cost-effective humanitarian aid. The ERF Agility highlights the need for donors to invest in scalable, locally […]

This exit evaluation examines Oxfam’s Puerto Rico program from its launch following Hurricane María in 2017 through its closure, assessing the experience through the lenses of local humanitarian leadership and feminist principles. Over seven years, Oxfam worked with more than 20 Puerto Rican organizations on humanitarian response, gender justice, energy and climate resilience, and policy […]

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 funding innovation that provides flexible, quick humanitarian funding to local actors in order to save lives during emergencies, advocate for the rights of people affected, and advance the shifting of power […]