Posted by: admin on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 02:17 AM

This is the latest matrix of interest rates from the Federation for People's Sustainable Development Cooperative, as approved by the Phildhrra board at its last meeting on April 3, 2008.

Matrix in PDF format.

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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 04:36 AM

As requested, here are some documents regarding the ASEAN Charter.

The full ASEAN Charter

The Solidarity for Asian Peoples’ Advocacies' (SAPA) Analysis of the ASEAN Charter

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Posted by: admin on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 03:50 AM

The Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA-Mindanaw), a network of rural development NGOs, in partnership with the Lutheran World Relief (LWR) convenes the 2nd Mindanao SIAD Forum this coming December 18-20, 2007 at the Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City. Bannering the theme “Pursuing Efficiency and Meaning”, the conference is an attempt to bring together all Sustainable Integrated Area Development (SIAD) practitioners in the island that first convened three (3) years ago, to share in various fashion their experiences in operationalizing the SIAD approach touted by advocates as the most viable response to poverty alleviation in the countrysides.

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Posted by: admin on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 06:11 AM

PhilDHRRA took part in this picket. See some pictures at the ATM's Flickr page.

Supporters of Higaonon farmers picket DAR, press for Pangandaman’s intervention in Sumilao land case; Farmers on their 42nd Day of their Walk

As Higaonon farmers seeking to recover the controversial Quisumbing property in Sumilao, Bukidnon reached their 6th week of their walk, their supporters set a picket at the Department of Agrarian Reform central office to press for Secretary Nasser Pangandaman’s intervention in the land case.

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Posted by: admin on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 02:55 AM

We, the 93 representatives of the 43 dioceses, who participated in the 25th ECIP-IPA National Convention held on September 18-21, 2007 at Santa Catalina Spirituality Center, Baguio City, Philippines, have reflected on the theme “The Word of God and the Indigenous Communities”, and are united in declaring that:

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Posted by: admin on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 02:54 AM

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

This coming 14th of October, we will celebrate INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ SUNDAY. We consider this year particularly important because it is the 30th year of the creation of the Episcopal Commission on Indigenous Peoples (ECIP). The ECIP embodies the official and conscious Apostolate of the Church, together with the Dioceses and Religious Congregation, for our Indigenous brothers and sisters. For thirty years, the Church has lent her moral authority and her human and material resources to support the struggle of our Indigenous Peoples for justice and self-determination.

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Posted by: admin on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 02:52 AM

We, the 93 representatives of the 43 dioceses, who participated in the 25th ECIP-IPA National Convention held on September 18-21, 2007 at Santa Catalina Spirituality Center, Baguio City, Philippines, reflected on the situations of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the whole country.

Living in the hinterlands, many IPs have been suspected on the one side by the military as New People’s Army (NPA) sympathizers and on the other by the NPA as military assets. Because they are unable to express their opposition to the presence of these armed groups, IP communities have thereby become battlegrounds between the military and the NPA.

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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 06:26 AM

by Jun Virola

In order to understand better the situation of farmers in their respective Asian countries and develop concrete ways to respond to them, farmers belonging to the Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) will gather for the “Regional Consultation Workshop on Farmers’ Situation: Responding to Major Difficulties Faced by Farmers in Asia” on June 12-15, 2007 at the SEAMEO INNOTECH Center in Commonwealth Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 07:09 AM

The members of the PhilDHRRA Mindanao Network in Northern Mindanao Cluster through the “Church-NGO-Academe” Conversation takes an active role in the conduct of voters political education in the 2 districts (Gingoog and Balingasag) and 4 parishes (Lumbia, Bulua, Camaman-an, Gusa) in the archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro City from the period of March-April 2007.

The CONVERSATION is a forum of different organizations and individuals coming from the Church, NGOs, Academe and just recently the interfaith group. As a forum, it is a venue for dialoguing, discussions, reflection on different social concerns and hopefully would make significant and pro-active responses. Network members who are actively involved in the CONVERSATION initiatives include: ATC, GROUP, MUCAARD, TOUCH and MASSPECC.

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Posted by: admin on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 07:07 AM

The Mindanao Alliance of Self-Help Societies – Southern Philippines Educational Cooperative Center (MASS-SPECC) also known as MASS-SPECC Cooperative Development Center, convened its 33rd Annual Assembly on April 13, 2007 at Grand Ballroom, Pryce Plaza Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.

MASS-SPECC is one of the established and financially stable cooperatives not only in Mindanao but in the country as well. Its contribution in cooperative history is marked by the introduction of pioneering services all geared towards the improvement in the capacity of the cooperatives to provide better services to the members in Mindanao. In 2006, MASSPECC has been given a distinction award as one of the commendable members of PhilDHRRA Mindanao Network in due recognition of its efforts with respect to the network’s development thrust in Mindanao.

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