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DHRRA Network Malaysia conducted an orientation and strategic planning workshop entitled “Operationalizing DHRRA Malaysia and AsiaDHRRA Cooperation” on February 24-25, 2006 in Taiping,Malaysia. The two-day activity hopes to deepen stakeholdership, generate commitment and draw concrete plans in operationalizing the strategic plan of the network at the DHRRA level. Specifically, the activity hopes to: Enhance appreciation [...]

Jakarta is currently experiencing severe flooding. The area where Bina Desa office is located is also affected by the continuously rising floodwater. Bina Desa has marshalled relief efforts to assist the flooded communities. Bina Desa is now servicing as a relief and communication center delivering aid and information to affected communities. They have opened Posko [...]

AsiaDHRRA upon the invitation of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development participated in the upcoming WRD08 Roundtable held in Toronto, Canada on 25-26 January 2007 The Civil Society Consultation drafted specific recommendations to the World Bank about key issues and positions that should be included in [...]

AsiaDHRRA together with members of the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA) Working Group on ASEAN organized the 2nd ASEAN Civil Society conference (ACSC2) in Cebu City, Philippines on December 10-12 2006. The ACSC2 was attended by more than 300 participants from various community-based organizations, civil society groups, NGOs, social movements, people’s organizations and trade [...]

AFA and AsiaDHRRA’s new book, entitled “Initiatives on Pro Small Farmer Trade”, was launched during the panel session on ASEAN regional integration in agriculture. The book contains 5 case studies portraying actual initiatives in alternative agricultural trading: (1) the successful efforts of Green Net in Thailand to market organic products; (2) the initiative by the [...]

AsiaDHRRA participated in the Philippine-Japan Symposium: “Empowering the Poor in the Philippine Society toward 2015: Partnership Building between Philippine and Japanese NGOs in Poverty Alleviation” held on 24- 25 November 2006 at the Market, Market! Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Philippines. The year 2006 marks the 50th year of the resumption of diplomatic relations between the [...]

Lany Rebagay, Leadership Development Program Officer and Dr. Sung Lee, KoDHRRA President, are set to meet in February for the initial discussion of the proposed on-line leadership development tool for the network’s NGO leaders. Dr. Sung Lee, ExeCom member will anchor this program having developed a major on-line HR tool in Korea. They will try [...]

AsiaDHRRA, represented by Ms. Esther Penunia participated in the Global Women Leaders’ Forum on Agriculture and Trade during the WSF. She also attended the seminar conducted by East African Farmers’ Federation on January 21, 2007, where she presented AFA’s experiences in regional integration. She also participated in a seminar on women farmers organized by KENFAP, [...]

AsiaDHRRA is set to participate in the First SAPA General Forum to be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 5-6 Feb, 2007. It will be hosted by Forum Asia. It is the first meeting of all SAPA members and partners since its inception at its first regional consultation meeting in Bangkok on 3-4 February 2005. About [...]

AsiaDHRRA ExeCom held its first meeting in scenic Bohol Bee Farm on December 17-18, 2006. Among the important agenda were a review of the 6th AsiaDHRRA GA Proceedings and Resolutions, an orientation of the new ExeCom on AsiaDHRRA Programs and Projects, Networking and Representation, and Organizational Administrative, Financial, and Operational Policies and Procedures. In the [...]

AsiaDHRRA joined the 3rd Congress of the World Rural Forum (WRF) with the theme “Towards Development and Solidarity-Challenge and Commitment”, last October 19-21, 2006 in Basque, Spain. It was attended by around 300 participants from 32 countries, from four continents – Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, mainly rural development organizations: agriculturists, cooperatives, civil society [...]

The AsiaDHRRA ExeCom and Secretariat jointly underwent the 2006 Leadership Development Session (LDS) in Bohol on Dec. 15-16. The two-day leadership session, ably facilitated by management consultant Angge Medel, became a productive venue for the ExeCom and secretariat to understand their own as well as the others’ leadership approaches, identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses, [...]

A joint meeting of the AFA and AsiaDHRRA ExeCom took place on Dec. 14, 2006 in Cebu City, Philippines to discuss the results of the external evaluation done by Ms. Dinky Soliman on the progress of AFA’s preparation towards full operational autonomy. A joint task force was created during the meeting to oversee the process [...]

AsiaDHRRA, together with partners from PhilDHRRA, AFA, and InciteGov had a 3-day trip in Brussels in October 2006 which was kindly arranged and partly sponsored by the CSA (Collective Alternative Strategies). The main aim of the visit was to orient the group of the different development groups in Belgium (NGO, Foundation, Farmers Organizations, Belgian Technical [...]