15/12/2025
๐ฏ ๐๐ค๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ฎ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ฝ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ผ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐ฃ๐๐ง๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐
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All roads led to Bangkok, Thailand for local leaders, passionate advocates and global funders attending the 2025 Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week (RHPW) last December 8-10; an event where people from all walks gathered to rethink on the direction of humanitarian work in a world that's quickly changing.
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โDelving into partnership, learnings and localization, humanitarian champions tackled climate disasters, tight funding, shifting power and the never-ending crises. More than theories, participants talked about shifting the decision-making process to communities, broadening funding and ensuring aid efforts truly respond to communitiesโ needs and feedbacks. It focused on a shared understanding that putting people at the center isn't just the right thing to do, but it also works better and more importantly, it lasts.
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โAmong the three-day event highlights, EcoWEB shared to the international stage its work on survivor and community-led response (sclr). A big leap from the traditional humanitarian work, which was doing things for communities, real change as provided for by the sclr approach starts when funding is directly given to support the plans and efforts of communities not as beneficiaries but as partners in recovery and rehabilitation.
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The RHPW wasn't just about policy talks. It gave local leaders and grassroots groups a platform to share how their realities shaped the humanitarian work, showcasing that real solutions live with and among the actual people facing the crises head-on.
โAmong the local leders and advocates who shared their stories were Doroteo Galavia, President of Hinabangay Federation from Socorro, Surigao del Norte; Dayalyn Mhatet Acoon Tingaraan, President of Senator Ninoy Aquino College Foundation from Marawi, Lanao del Norte; Regina โNanetteโ Salvador-Antequisa, Executive Director of ECOWEB, Inc.; and Federico Motka, Head of Emergencies and Humanitarian of the Vitol Foundation.
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โEach leader highlighted how flexible and trust-based funding enable crisis-affected communities to design and lead their own recovery, ensuring solutions that are fast, appropriate, and rooted in realities.
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โLearnings were also not confined within the conference halls. Advocates likewise shared experiences and local stories over coffee and snacks, whether itโs about technology, better strategies for teaming up or coordination within the humanitarian work. Every new connection opened opportunities to make the whole system stronger.
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โThe event wrapped up with a clear sense of renewed commitment to push for locally-led actions, smarter climate change adaptation programs, open funding and real partnerships where community voices are front and center. It served as the foundation of a system that can actually deliver for the people who need it most.
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โThe RHPW was a thrilling experience to keep learning, cooperating and pushing for community-led responses and recovery. It provided a brighter future where grassroots lead and humanitarian efforts work for those it is meant to serve.
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