Members
Useful links or sites of the Members and other organizations that are connected with us or our affiliates.
| Center for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD) |
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| The Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD) is a non-government organisation devoted to coastal community livelihoods, marine conservation and sustainable coastal development in Vietnam. Established in 2003, MCD emerged from the Vietnamese chapter of the International Marinelife Alliance (IMA), an international organisation dedicated to marine conservation. MCD recognises the living interdependency of coastal communities and marine ecosystems. The coastal and marine environment provides jobs, food and ecological services, and must be protected to ensure the livelihoods of local people are sustained. As degrading marine ecosystems reduce present and future opportunities for coastal communities, MCD's goal is to harmonise conservation with socio-economic development. |
| Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC) |
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| ELAC was formed in 1990 as a special project of the Protestant Lawyers’ League of the Philippines (PLLP). The country was still recovering from human rights abuses from the Marcos era, and the project was an effort to mobilize human rights lawyers for legal advocacy on behalf of communities affected by environmental problems. It was a response to the emerging challenge of environmental lawyering especially in the rural areas where environmental degradation is most felt. From 1990 to 1993, ELAC was composed of a group of volunteer lawyers who participated in people’s monitoring teams, task forces, and environmental investigative missions in response to various development projects and environmental concerns. ELAC also collaborated with various organizations in conducting environmental law seminars and paralegal trainings, and in forming coalitions/networks on environmental issues. In 1994, ELAC organized a core of full-time staff, an office in Palawan, and coordinating sites in Cebu and Northern Leyte. The following year, offices were established in Cebu and Leyte. The Leyte office addressed environmental issues in Eastern Visayas, including Samar Island. In 1996, ELAC established links with some lawyers in Bohol. This paved the way for a Bohol office in 1997. In the same year, ELAC was duly registered as a non-profit, non-government organization in the Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Community-Based Resource Management (CBRM) was later developed as a long-term strategy to combat environmental problems and to help communities become managers of the resources in their localities. ELAC began CBRM programs in Honda Bay and Coron, both in Palawan. The CBRM projects in Bantayan, Cebu and in Mabini, Bohol followed afterwards. In 1998, a satellite office was set up in Coron to make ELAC more accessible to the indigenous peoples living there. Satellite offices were likewise established in Mabini and in Salcedo, Eastern Samar in 2004 to be nearer to farmer and fisherfolk communities. Offices in Aklan and Pagadian were set up in 2003 to respond to requests for legal assistance in Western Visayas and Northern Mindanao. However, due to the unavailability of full-time lawyers, these last two areas are now being served by the main office based in Cebu. Aside from work in central Philippines, ELAC also partners with institutions and offices in other regions of the country and, through its main office, has assisted communities and local governments as far north as Romblon in Luzon and as far south as Davao del Sur in Mindanao. ELAC has been through a lot of organizational, financial and operational challenges but its vision, mission, goals, and programs keep the organization intact and alive, willing and ready to face other challenges ahead. For as long as the environment is abused, and for as long as the community’s rights to a balanced and healthful ecology are violated and threatened, ELAC will continue its work of helping communities defend the earth. |
| Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT) |
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| The Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT) is a coalition of local and international NGOs, established in 2000, that focus on environmental issues around the Tonle Sap Lake and in particular monitor the fisheries sector. FACT works closely with fishing dependent communities around Tonle Sap Lake, in Cambodia’s upper and lower Mekong regions, and the coastal provinces supporting them in building their organizations and networks so that they can advocate effectively for themselves on issues that affect them. FACT also advocates to decision makers to explore alternatives for fishing communities in order to improve their livelihoods. FACT was previously a program of NGO Forum before becoming an independent organization in January 2004. FACT is presently implementing five programs, with an underlying emphasis on human rights, sustainable livelihoods, education, and awareness raising |
| Oxfam Great Britain |
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| Oxfam GB is a leading international NGO with a worldwide reputation for excellence in the delivery of aid and development work. Our purpose is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International. Further information on our work can be found in the Oxfam in Action section of the website. Please use the following links to locate our latest annual review, accounts and strategic plan. |
| Oxfam Novib |
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| Oxfam Novib is fighting for a just world without poverty. Together with people, organisations, businesses and governments. Through projects and lobby. Locally and internationally. |
| PROCESS-Bohol |
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| The Participatory Research, Organization of Communities and Education towards Struggle for Self-Reliance (PROCESS)-Bohol, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization, established on October 2, 1982 with the aim of creatively animating the formation of strong, autonomous people’s organizations and building up their capabilities for participatory and self-reliant development. Twenty-two years ago, PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. began its operation in the island-province of Bohol. Since then it has been painstakingly helping various communities become better, in more ways than one. The NGO was formed as an offshoot of the Project SARILAKAS, a portmanteau of the Filipino words “sariling” and “lakas,” which means “own strength.” The project was then under the sponsorship of the International Labor Organization and implemented by the then Bureau of Rural Workers under the former Ministry of Labor and Employment. SARILAKAS envisioned the development of self-sufficient communities as the key to genuine progress. It focused on the cause of migrant sugar workers in the Antique and Batangas provinces and sought to secure better working terms and conditions for them primarily by instituting Collective Bargaining Agreements with their employers. When the project terminated in 1981, SARILAKAS core staff formally established PROCESS, Inc. on October 2, 1982. In the years that followed, it extended its area of coverage to Northern Luzon, Panay, and Bohol. In Bohol, PROCESS started working with the fishery communities in the coastal town of Tubigon in March 1985 as the pivotal point for organizing. From a mere field office, PROCESS-Bohol, as with other similar district offices, was granted full autonomy to operate independently in 1996 by virtue of PROCESS, Inc. Board Resolution 12/7-10. On March 2, 1998, PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. obtained its own legal personality with the approval of its registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. aims to organize effective and autonomous people’s groups and develop them into participatory and independent communities. Such aim is based on the principle that grassroots organizations play a major role in the progress of a society and, thus, should participate in local and national decision-making. |
| Tambuyog Development Center (Tambuyog) |
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| Founded in 1984, Tambuyog called attention to declining fishery resources and unabated poverty in coastal communities through interdisciplinary research, creative information and education campaign, community organizing, policy advocacy and constituency building. Tambuyog traces its roots in the communities along Lingayen Gulf in Pangasinan, where researchers from the University of the Philippines conducted research and organizing. Hence, the name tambuyog, a Pangasinense word for carabao’s horn which symbolizes the call for unity. Its founding was a response to the situation where efforts in community development were focused mainly on peasants and the agriculture sector, while the issues of the fisherfolk remained at the periphery. An important result of Tambuyog’s work after a decade is the substantial amount of data it has gathered on the political, social and economic situation in coastal communities, and the status of various aquatic resources and the coastal environment. Linking the biological with social, economic and political analysis, Tambuyog developed an alternative model or approach to development—community-based coastal resource management (CBCRM). The CBCRM approach centers on the role of communities in the management of their resources—too often overlooked by government programs—and their rights to enjoy the benefits resulting from their collective action. In Tambuyog’s belief, communities ultimately are the best resource managers because they have the greatest stake in the preservation of resources which they depend on for survival. The gap between the ideal and the present capacities to manage remains, though. But through exchange and synergy of indigenous or local knowledge with scientific investigation, and continuous capacity building and consciousness raising, communities may be able to slowly manifest ownership of the coastal resources. This assertion to “ownership”, “claim”, or “entitlement”---called community property rights---is at the heart of Tambuyog’s vision of empowering coastal communities and marginalized sectors of the fishing industry. |
| Telapak |
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| Perkumpulan Telapak (dahulu Yayasan Telapak Indonesia) berdiri pada pertengahan tahun 1995 oleh beberapa aktivis lingkungan hidup yang berbasis di Bogor, Jawa Barat. Secara hukum Telapak memperoleh Badan Hukum Yayasan sejak tanggal 21 Januari 1997. Sejak bulan Januari 2002, Telapak berubah menjadi Perkumpulan yang disahkan dalam Musyawarah Besar Telapak di kampung Tapos, Desa Sukaharja, Bogor. Perubahan status ini merupakan konsekuensi pendewasaan internal yang terjadi serta untuk menjawab tantangan eksternal yang ada. Semakin bertambah umur Telapak, semakin bertambah mandat yang diemban oleh Telapak dalam mewujudkan visi dan misinya. Sebagai lembaga berbentuk Perkumpulan, Telapak membuka diri kepada segenap masyarakat sipil untuk bersama-sama bekerjasama mewujudkan pengelolaan sumberdaya alam hayati Indonesia yang adil. |
| Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) |
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| The Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) is the largest forum of non-government and community-based organisations in Indonesia. It is represented in 25 provinces and has over 438 member organisations (as of June 2004). It stands for social transformation, peoples sovereignty, and sustainability of life and livelihoods. WALHI works to defend Indonesia’s natural world and local communities from injustice carried out in the name of economic development. We work across Indonesia on a variety of issues including: forests, mining, fresh water management, pollution, foreign debt and corporate-driven globalization, coasts and oceans, disaster management, national policy and law reform, and good governance. We also work to ensure adequate legal representation for various community groups in their struggles to gain justice. As a national member of Friends of the Earth International -- which is the world's largest grassroots environmental federation with 68 national member groups in as many countries and around one million individual members -- WALHI conduct campaigns with the federation and with other international networks which have the same concerns on environmental justice. |
