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TechTuesday is back!!! and for you dear NGO workers we bring back this fab toolset famously known as NGO-in-a-box. “NGO-in-a-box is a collection of essential tools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO. You can use this toolkit to set up and coordinate your office, organise and manage projects, collaborate online and support your campaigns. The [...]

In remembrance of Dr. Tony Ledesma, whose first death anniversary we commemorate  and whose life we celebrate today, we are sharing this article he wrote about the origins and development of the DHRRAs. The Seed, the Spring, the Stone A mighty river starts from a trickling mountain spring. A massive tree starts from a tiny [...]

Here’s an intriguing article in the brit newsie The Independent by  Matthew Stewart, formerly a management consultant, about the “dark arts” of the management consultancy business. It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of “Nietzsche and German Idealism”. The annual recruiting season had long since gone. [...]

Stumbled across this interesting book William Davies on management. Perfect for weekend reading!  This book by the way is available as a FREE PDF download over at DEMOS. The blurb sez; The financial crisis has called into question many of our core assumptions about economic structures, governance and institutions. But there has been little attention [...]

Another good read from ICRW! From the introduction: Rural women produce half of the world’s food and, in developing countries, between 60 percent and 80 percent of food crops.  Women also are more likely than men to spend their income on the well-being of their families, including more nutritious foods, school fees for children and [...]

Paper Prepared by: Bambang Ismawan (President and Director, Bina Swadaya) (A case study of a village where the Self Reliance Development Foundation -Bina Swadaya- works in Indonesia) Sidamulya village is located in the District of Subang, in the Province of West Java, 25 km away from the main city. Its population is 5431 with 547/km2 [...]

We’d like to share with you this nice booklet on NGO governance we found at the ADBI This resource is primarily for the members, managers and volunteers of big and small NGOs. People interested generally in development and the role of civil society may also find it a useful capacity-building resource. It is a quick [...]

Agricultural cooperatives have played an important role in the Asian rural landscape for decades, and has become an integral part of its social structure. Cooperatives have contributed greatly to the development of modern national and systematized agricultural production-base, helped enhance self-sufficiency of major staple foods, and strengthened farmers’ household economy by facilitating market access and [...]

Everywhere in the world, small-scale farmers are collaborating with each other in some way – forming groups, sharing information, working together. Under the right circumstances, farmers’ groups can make a very positive difference to the lives of those working to improve their livelihood options, as well as to the sustainable management of natural resources. The [...]

TaiwanDHRRA hosted a seven-day study tour (August 28-September 3,2007) of VietDHRRA aimed at providing Vietnamese farmer leaders with workable models of agricultural production and marketing. The group visited farms engaged in commodity-based production and marketing team particularly those specializing in papaya, sugar apple, wax apple and tea products. They were also able to visit the [...]

a tool that AsiaDHRRA uses in tracking our members organizational development. download the monitoring tool here…

One of the tools we use in monitoring the DHRRA’s performance and growth as an organization.

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 [...]

AsiaDHRRA visited the Lao Community Development Association (LCDA) last February 10-11, 2006. A dialogue with the leaders of LCDA and an exchange on the situation of the local NPOs in Lao took place. During the visit, preparations related to the conduct of a forum among local NPOs was discussed. It was agreed that a mapping [...]

The newly-composed Executive Committee (ExeCom) of AFA (Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development) held its 2nd Core Group Strengthening Workshop last June 1-6, in Cambodiana Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The workshop, with the theme, “Enhancing AFA to Promote the Asian Peasant Agenda”, was attended by 19 participants representing the regular members of AFA and [...]