The PhilDHRRA-Mindanao Convenio 07-CO-1-031 with funding assistance from the Agencia Espanola Cooperación Internacíonal para el Desarollo (AECID), through Fundacion Intered, organized Basic Orientation on Sustainable Agriculture (BOSSA) training for the rice farmers of Villapaz Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (VIFAMCO) operating in Villapaz, La Paz, Agusan del Sur. The training aims to enhance the knowledge, skills and practices of farmers on Sustainable Agriculture.  The BOSSA training was in response to the need expressed by the farmers during the conduct of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) undertaken by the Convenio 07-CO-1-031 team, i.e., to enhance knowledge on Sustainable Agriculture. (more…)

The Community Context Analysis was among the preliminary undertakings of the Convenio 07-CO-1-031, a Sustainable and Integrated Area Development (SIAD) intervention funded by Agencia Espanola Cooperación Internacíonal para el Desarollo (AECID), an international aid agency of the Spanish Government, through Fundacion Intered, a Spanish Non-Government Organization.  The undertaking led to the formulation of Barangay Dughan Profile, which involved a rigorous and an effort-sweating endeavor.  (more…)

Technological progress and development have opened the advent of a materialistic world.  Many people in the urban and rural areas are explicitly and implicitly influenced by the global commercialization.  In many instances the influx of western culture envelopes the innate and distinctive attitudes of who we really are every now and then.

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The Caucus of Development NGO Networks or CODE-NGO, an umbrella organization of 12 NGO networks in the Philippines, selected the Project Management Information System (PMIS) of Project Caraga as one of 2008’s Best Practices .

Mr. Paul Baang, Project Manager of Project Caraga made a brief presentation of the features of the PMIS on the occasion of the 2008 Annual General Assembly of CODE NGO held at the Institute of Social Order (ISO) at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines on December 11, 2008. The presentation highlighted the strengths and potentials of the MIS in promoting transparency and accountability in NGO project implementation. (more…)