ANGOC holds Training Program on Sustainable Agriculture
Under the Third Country Training Program (TCTP) of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Government of
Japan and the Government of the Philippines through ANGOC organized a course entitled,
Building Capacities of Asian NGOs in Poverty Eradication through Community Action.
The module for FY 2005 was Sustainable Agriculture: a Viable Alternative for Resource-poor
Farmers. Twenty-four participants from ten Asian countries were brought together on 6-25
November 2005 to improve their technical knowledge on SA technologies and practices. Read More.
Kudos to Fr. Francis Lucas, Chairman of the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) in the
Philippines, for having won the “Communication Excellence in Organization (CEO) Excel Award 2005” for the NGO category.
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Philippine Chapter conferred the award to Fr. Francis on
December 6, 2005 at Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines. Read more...
Two volumes of felicitation books in honor of Shri M.V. Rajashekharan’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration, 75 years of a truly
productive and fruitful life in the name of rural development, were released from the press in 2005.
These books are entitled Soul of the Soil and Rural Development: Some Reflections published by M.V. Rajashekharan - 75
Felicitation Committee in Bangalore, India. Read more...
The Global Call to Action against Poverty (G-CAP) is a growing alliance of organisations, networks and national campaigns
committed to eradicating extreme poverty, which will be working together in 2005 to take action across the world
to force world leaders to tackle the causes of poverty and meet and exceed their own promises on the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
Read more on the Global Call to Action against Poverty at www.whiteband.org.
The ANGOC Secretariat has moved to a new office. Beginning February 2005, ANGOC may be reached at:
6-A Malumanay Street, Corner Mayaman Street, UP Village, Diliman
Quezon City 1103, Philippines
PO Box 3107, QCCPO 1103
Quezon City, Philippines
Telephone: +63-2-4337653 / 54
Fax: +63-2-9217498
Please update your directories. Kindly note that the telephone numbers and the Post Office (PO) Box number remain
the same.
Third Country Training Program 2004
Building Capacities of Asian NGOs in
Poverty Eradication through Community Action
The Third Country Training Program (TCTP) on Building Capacities of Asian NGOs and Government in Overcoming Hunger
through Community Actions focusing on Enhancing Access to Land for the Rural Poor was held on 2-23 November 2004 at
the Fersal Place Hotel, Quezon City, Philippines. The Training Program was successfully conducted under the auspices
of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Thirteen qualified participants from Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
took part in the training which aimed to enhance the capabilities of the participants in field action, participatory
research and multi-stakeholder partnership and to renew commitment and reintegrate plans to give rural communities
better access to resources.
The Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) commemorated its
Silver Jubilee last 2004. Its genesis finds its way back to February 1979, in Bangkok, Thailand, following on the
heels of a two-year series of village and national level consultations in 10 Asian countries leading to the World
Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD). Thanks to the inspiration and vision of the
late Dr. Dioscoro Umali, ANGOC was established.
Last December 2004, a three-day regional workshop on Peace and Development in the Philippines in recognition of the important role of NGOs in promoting
peace and development in the rural Asia was held, gathering together ANGOC members and partners in selected Asian countries to discuss peace and
development initiatives in the region. Read More.
19-21 July: SARD Regional Workshop
ANGOC played host to more 30-40 participants from South, Southeast, and East Asian Region, for a workshop on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development- Farming Systems Evolution (SARD-FSE) on 19-21 July 2004, in Antipolo City, Philippines. Representatives from CSOs, governments, the academe, and donor organizations came together to review the SARD-FSE case study implemented in the Philippines, identify key policy issues that need to be addressed to move toward SARD, and formulate proposals for collaboration on SARD policy implementation.
The SARD-FSE Project conducted cases studies in the Honduras, Mali and the Philippines, seeking to use the results to enhance the capacity of governmental and non-governmental institutions to plan, implement and evaluate sustainable agriculture and rural development policies and strategies, and to develop the essential capacities to actively participate in the processes of decision-making.
For more information on the SARD-FSE Project, click here.
Regional CSO Consultation:
Mainstreaming the MDGs in Asia
Last 23 July 2004, in Antipolo City, Philippines, ANGOC held a Regional CSO Consultation on Mainstreaming the
Millennium Development Goals in Asia. The consultation aimed to mainstream the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
among CSOs in Asia to enable them to adopt it as a larger framework towards which all initiatives can be
directed to especially for poverty eradication, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership
for development.
ANGOC as a regional organization also took the opportunity to develop a mechanism among NGOs/CSOs towards mainstreaming
MDGs as an important part of its advocacy on food security and poverty reduction in the region.
A new book entitled "Trade Liberalization, Agriculture and Small Farm Households in the Philippines: Proactive
Responses to Threats and Opportunities of Globalization" was launched last 25 March 2004 at Conspiracy Bar and
Restaurant, Quezon City, by ANGOC in behalf of the Consortium comprising several institutions.
The book tells of
the impact of trade liberalization on local initiatives of small-scale, rural farm households in the Philippines.
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