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Asiadhrra will hold its first ExeCom Meeting for 2012 in Hanoi, Vietnam today. Dr. Toan will host the meeting at the Vietdhrra office. Among the matters to be discussed include a review of the network operations for the past 2 years, an overview of the opportunities and challenges and partnerships for the upcoming period and [...]

Binadesa shared with us a declaration document they signed together with a multitude of Indonesian CSO’s on the issue of people’s sovereignty in ASEAN. The declaration is entitled “Building People’s Sovereignty in South East Asia Region: Refuse and Oppose the Domination of Global Capitalism” “We, Indonesian people, representations of peasants, workers, migrant workers, fisher folk, [...]

“On 20th.July 2011 the RDPE National Consultation  for Viet Nam was held at the meeting room of the Center of Agricultural Extension Volunteers (CAEV), 4th.Floor, A1 Building, Phuong Mai, 102 Truong Chinh, Ha Noi which is also Executive Office of the Vietnam Partnership of Human Resource Development for Rural Areas (VietDHRRA).” Read the details of [...]

AsiaDHRRA has been tapped by the ASEAN Secretariat to anchor the drafting process of the ASEAN Rural Development and Poverty Eradication Framework Action Plan (RDPE FAP) for 2011-2015.  We are facilitating, together with our national CSO partners and in coordination with the national ASEAN SOMRDPE Focal Points, a series of national consultations this month of [...]

Dr. Wenchi Huang, the current Asiadhrra Chairperson had a fruitful discussion with the staff at the secretariat office in the Philippines on current concerns, updates on activities and projects  and strategic objectives. This was the first time she met with the full staff after being selected as the chairperson of the network last year and [...]

The second workshop on Food Price Volatility and Food Reserves in ASEAN (co-organized with API, Bina Desa, AFA and AAI) will converse on the causes and effects of food price volatility particularly on small scale producers. It will also take a closer look at the ASEAN Rice Reserve Scheme especially on making it more benificial [...]

The workshop on CSO Engagement with the ASEAN and its member states (co-organized by AsiaDHRRA with CODE-NGO, Demos, HRWG, INCITEGov, ROA, SRD, Star Kampuchea, VUSTA, WMD, YAPPIKA) hope to bring the voices and perspectives on the status of CSO engagement at different levels and varying degrees of democratic spaces available. The workshop will feature concrete [...]

A seminar on entrepreneurship was organized by DHRRA Malaysia in collaboration with Puchong Indian Women Welfare Society. Around 80 entrepreneurs participated in this program. 40 of the participants took part in the sewing class while the rest attended the session on grooming (persolekan). Read more about exciting empowering activities that DHRRA Malaysia is conducting…

Today is the birthday of  our dear departed founder Dok Tony. Our heartfelt prayers for his peaceful rest and our deep appreciation also for his hard work, vision and advocacy for the rural poor as manifested today in the development work that the DHRRAs undertake in various partnerships with the rural peoples of Asia. The [...]

Mr. Zaw Zaw Han, Chairman of Ever Green Group – Social Enterprise Partnership for Development, a member of MyanDHRRA dropped by our office for a visit after attending the CSO Forum on AFCC held in Manila on March 1, 2011. Mr. Han and Asiadhrra staff had a fruitful discussion as they discussed the activities of [...]

Big thanks to the tireless, diligent and always happy Taiwandhrra volunteers from the NPUST Agribusiness Grad School under Ms. Wenchi Huang.  Together with the TaiwanDHRRA team, the volunteers led by the indefatigable duo of Edgardo Calderon Reyes and Ya-Hui Huang made it possible for the event to flow seamlessly and with nary a hitch.  Nicest [...]

AsiaDHRRA represented by its chairperson, Datuk Marimuthu Nadason and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), represented by its President, Dr. Mike Guu, signed today a memorandum of agreement aimed at “furthering cooperation in both education and academic research” between the two organizations. Datuk Marimuthu, signing the MOA along with Dr. Mike Guu. Looking [...]

AsiaDHRRA is holding its 8th General Assembly from September 15-17 in the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology located in the bucolic city of Pingtung, Taiwan. The theme of the GA is Responding to the Challenges of the Global Food and Financial Crisis and Climate Change. “The General Assembly will focus on defining our [...]

The Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA)  will be conducting a forum on May 18, 9:00am to 2:30pm, at the Discovery Suites (Drake, 42nd floor) in Ortigas Center, Pasig City. The forum is a culminating activity of the  study on Strengthening Social Accountability Mechanisms for Food Security and Agricultural [...]