PDAP
The Partnership for Development Assistance in the Philippines Inc (formerly known as Philippine Development Assistance Programme, Inc.), started as a consortium of Filipino and Canadian non-government organizations (NGOs). It was founded in 1986 as a non-stock, non-profit organization, to become an effective instrument in reducing poverty and inequity in the Philippines. PDAP prides itself in having 6 member networks with more than 300 community-based members and partner NGOs. PDAP has distinguished itself in promoting and developing rural enterprises for poverty reduction and as a tool in promoting peace in conflict-affected areas.
PPDSA and PROPEACE Programs
Key Program Accomplishments
Apart from PPSE, PDAP has also been working in Southern Philippines for the last seven years. In partnership with community-based groups of Muslim, IPs (indigenous peoples) and Christians since 1997 beginning with the PPDSA (Program for Peace and Development in the Southern Zone of Peace and Development/SZOPAD Areas) and with the recently concluded PROPEACE (Mindanao Program for Peace and Development), PDAP has already supported about 180 various projects These projects range from agricultural/fish/livestock production and agricultural post-harvest facilities for livelihood and food security to enterprise projects on food and handicraft processing, basic commodities merchandising, micro-financing, grains trading (rice and corn) for increasing household/family income.
PPDSA was implemented over a 3-year (1997-2000) period involving 84 livelihood and enterprise projects and reaching more than 4,000 individual project participants mainly from former MNLF combatants and their respective communities. PROPEACE on the other hand was implemented over a three and a half year period from 2000 until December 2004.
The objective of the recently concluded PROPEACE program is to reduce the level of poverty of Muslims/MNLF, indigenous people and Christian households in the SZOPAD areas by improving the socio-economic well being of 4000 poor Muslims/MNLF, indigenous people and Christian households in the SZOPAD through livelihood and enterprise projects. Supported by the financial contributions from the Philippines-Canada Development Fund (PCDF), the program supported livelihood creation, enterprise development, community organizing and capability building and is being implemented in mainland Mindanao covering the provinces of Cotabato, Lanao del Norte, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay and the island provinces of Tawi-tawi and Palawan. A total of 90 various livelihood and enterprises projects are implemented by organized groups of Muslims, indigenous peoples and poor Christian settlers in post-conflict communities reaching more than 6,000 individual project participants.
The following table illustrates the type of projects that were supported under PROPEACE:
Table 1A. Livelihood & Enterprise Projects Supported by Propeace
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Definition |
Example |
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Trading/ Merchandizing |
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Micro-lending |
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Fishing and Aquaculture |
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Livestock and Poultry |
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Table 1B. Livelihood & Enterprise Projects Supported by Propeace
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Categories |
Definition |
Example |
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Agricultural Support Services |
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Food processing |
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Manufacturing |
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