Mrs. Mela Gipanao of Bulan, Sorsogon, is a farmer organizer and the founding President of the Bulan Women Farmers Association (BWFA), organized in 2018. BWFA’s initiative is about the Integrated Diversified Organic Farming System (IDOFS) Technology for adult women & youth farmers, and the study was conducted in Bulan, Region V, Sorsogon, Philippines.
Read more about BWFA here: Read Tola’s story HERE {phil-RuralW.pdf)
The Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
is a regional partnership of eleven social development networks and organisations in eleven Asian nations that envisions Asian rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity towards self-reliance. Tracing its history from the founding workshop on the development of human resources in rural areas in 1974 in Swanganiwas, Thailand, the DHRRA network’s mission is to be an effective promoter and catalyst of partnership relations, facilitator of human resource development processes in the rural areas and mobilizer of expertise and opportunities for the strengthening of solidarity and kinship among Asian rural communities.
It is dedicated to the empowerment of farmers in the Asian region.
Asiadhrra
Room 201 Partnership Center
59 C. Salvador St., Loyola Heights 1108,
Quezon City, Philippines
Telefax (637) 341-2442
Asiadhrra is:
– An affiliate of ASEAN
– An NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC)
– A member of AgriCord
– Member of World Rural Forum
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