AsiaDHRRA and AFA release new Book and 5th FEV Monograph
The book, “Shaping the Asian Peasant Agenda: Solidarity Building Towards Sustainable Rural Development in Asian Rural Communities” was launched last February 16, as one of the activities during the AFA GA. It is jointly published by AFA and AsiaDHRRA. The book contained the nine country reports, workshop results and lectures of keynote speakers and resource […]
1st SEARDA Project Advisory Group Meeting
The PAG, which serves as an advisory body to the Southeast Asia Rural Development Award (SEARDA), met for the first time in February 11, 2004 in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is composed of respected individuals from the NGO, academe, and the government sector. They discussed in detail the program design and the specific components of the […]
AsiaDHRRA ExeCom holds 11th Meeting
The 11th AsiaDHRRA ExeCom Meeting was held in Depok Indonesia last February 13-14, 2004. InDHRRA hosted the meeting. The main agenda included an assessment of 2003 accomplishments and the approval of 2004 priorities, plan, and budget. The network will sustain its thrust of developing leaders in the context of globalization, assist in the organizational development […]
Agrarian Reform Learning Exchange in the Philippines
Four government representatives from Indonesia’s Land Management Board together with representatives from InDHRRA and API (Aliansi Petani Indonesia) came to the Philippines last October 16-24, 2003 for a learning visit focusing on how to make agrarian reform work through tripartite partnership. They met with the Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Roberto Pagdanganan as well as […]
Central Highlands Technical Cooperation in Vietnam
AsiaDHRRA concluded its 3-year Technical Cooperation with the National Institute for Agricultural Planning and Projection (NIAPP) on the Poverty Alleviation Project entitled: Organizing and Building People’s Capacity in the Central Highlands. Despite the constraints faced of a community development project framework used in the context of Vietnam, the local implementing partners in the provinces of […]
AFA Approves 8-point Asian Peasant Agenda
The Executive Committee (ExeCom) of AFA approved an 8-point Asian Peasant during its 6th meeting held last October 26 in the boardroom of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union in Hanoi. The Agenda was a synthesis of the results of the three sub-regional conferences AFA held the past two months. It was a response to problems they […]
AsiaDHRRA Assists in Evaluation of Agriterra-SKP Partnership
AsiaDHRRA cooperated with Agriterra, a development arm of five farmers’ unions in Netherlands, in the evaluation of the partnership between Sor Kor Por (SKP), ZLTO and Agriterra. SKP is a national farmers’ federation in Thailand and an AFA member; ZLTO is the union of farmers in the South of Netherlands. The main objectives of the […]
JaDHRRA volunteer on OJT as AsiaDHRRA Secretariat
AsiaDHRRA welcomes the October arrival of Ms.Ryoko Tsuboi, a JaDHRRA volunteer who will undergo a one- year on-the-job training (OJT) at the AsiaDHRRA secretariat office in Quezon City, Philippines. The OJT program was designed as part of the second liner development program of the network. It is hoped that after one-year OJT service, the volunteer […]
AFA Conducts Mekong Sub Regional Conference on the Asian Peasant Agenda
The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) conducted the Mekong Sub regional conference on the Asian Peasant Agenda last 22-26 October in Hanoi. It was attended by 20 participants from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam . The participants pushed for the implementation of alternative trade, particularly farmer-to-farmer market exchanges. It also decided to […]
Regional NGO Caucus in Manila for SEACA
The AsiaDHRRA Secretary General, with SEACA secretariat support, convened a caucus on 15 October (followed up in 4 November) among seven (7) regional organizations based in Manila to share the developments in the Advocacy Capacity Building Program of SEACA and to discuss the prospects of broadening the SEACA regional caucus to other groups interested in […]
