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Christian Aid
An agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. It supports local organizations, which are best placed to understand local needs, as well as giving help on the ground through 16 overseas offices. Christian Aid believes in strengthening people to find their own solutions to the problems they face. It strives for a new world transformed by an end to poverty and campaigns to change the rules that keep people poor.

Citizens Movement for a Federal Philippines (CMFP)
Having started in Mindanao just two years ago, the movement is now organized in practically all regions in Luzon and Visayas. Expansion is continuing non-stop. A National Steering Committee is managing the movement assisted by a Resource and Advisory Pool of prominent citizens led by DR. JOSE V. ABUEVA, President of Kalayaan College.

Consortium for the Advancement of People’s Participation through Sustainable Integrated Area Development (CAPP-SIAD)
CAPP-SIAD is a non-stock, non-profit organisation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 25 August 1999. Its mandate is to promote participatory local governance, pursue genuine agrarian reform, and create social institutions for rural development. From a consortium with three members, namely Quidan-Kaisahan Negros Occidental, Inc. (QK), Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. (BMFI) in Misamis Oriental, and the Rural Development Institute-Leyte (RDI-Leyte) in Biliran Province, CAPP-SIAD was reorganized this year and now has five members. RDI-Leyte was replaced by the Education for Life Foundation (ELF), which operates in the province of Zambales, while two other NGOs were admitted into the consortium– the Quidan-Kaisahan Development Institute (QKDI) and the Katilingbanong Pamahandi sa Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. (KPMFI). The five member organizations are now QK and QKDI in Negros Occidental, BMFI and KPMFI in Misamis Oriental, and ELF in Zambales.

Embassy of Japan in the Philippines

European Union
The European Union is an alliance of 25 European countries. European Commission is one of the three main EU institutions and the executive arm of the EU. The EC offers grant funding opportunities for other entities in non-EC countries and there is a number of different EC funding programmes applicable to the Philippines. Europe Aid is also an office that is responsible for giving aid to LGUs and NGOs.

German Development Service (DED)
The German Development Service is one of the leading European development services for personnel cooperation. It was founded in 1963: since then more than 13 000 development workers have committed themselves to improving the living conditions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Almost 1 000 development workers are currently working in approximately 40 countries.

GRP-RPMM
BMFI has achieved an unexpected breakthrough in peace-building. It now acts as the Independent Secretariat in the Peace Process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa sa Mindanao (RPM-M).

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF)
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is related to the Christian Democratic movement. Having emerged from the 'Society for Christian Democratic Education Work' founded in 1956, it was named after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic in 1964. KAF is guided by the same principles that inspired Adenauer's work. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian Democracy, and supports and encourages European unification, international understanding, and development-policy cooperation.

Lihok-Pideral Mindanao (LPM)
Its roots can be traced back to the pioneering efforts of some individuals & organizations to mainstream the agenda for Federal System of Government. Recognizing past, current and parallel initiatives of various movements and personalities on their advocacies on federalism, they have kept its own version of advocacy alive since 1991.

Lutheran World Relief
LWR in Mindanao has been accompanying Balay Mindanaw and its communities for the last 10 years in strengthening peace communities in the rural areas through capacity building, livelihood and cooperative development, physical infrastructures and advocacy. Early 2009 Balay Mindanaw together with the Lutheran World Relief (LWR) has generated resources, raised P1 million and encouraged other NGOs to assist those displaced by the floods in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental province.

Mindanao Alliance of Self Help Societies-Southern Philippines Educational Center (MASS-SPECC)
MASS-SPECC started in 1966 with the SPECC as the early organization and then MASS in 1972. Both were integrated in 1984 in order to unify its political and educational trainings. As a network, MASS SPECC member-cooperatives call themselves the Mindanao Federation of Cooperatives with a total of 289 primary cooperatives and provincial federations. Across all types of cooperatives such as savings and credit, consumers, housing, MASS-SPECC provides services from womb to tomb.

Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks (MINCODE)
MINCODE was established in 1991 with 11 participating developmental NGO networks. These were the Association of Foundations (AF), Council of Social Services Agencies in Mindanao (COSSA-Mindanao), Center for Mindanao Missions (CMM), Mindanao Alliance of Self-Help Societies-Southern Philippines Educational Cooperative Center (MASS-SPECC), Mindanao Ecumenical Coordinating Council (MECC), Mindanao Interfaith People's Conference (MIPC), Mindanao Sulu Social Action (MISSA), Mindanao Congress of Development NGOs (MINCON), Partnership of Philippine Support Services Agencies (PHILSSA), Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PHILDHRRA), and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).

Mindanao Congress of Development NGOs and NGIs (MINCON)
MINCON is a movement of Mindanao development NGOs and NGIs, primarily unaffiliated but including those affiliated with other networks but are desirous of doing their share in promoting special Mindanao concerns and advocacies.

Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project (NMCIREMP)
The Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project (NMCIREMP) is assisted by a loan from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 577-PH, supervised by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), facilitated by the DAR as Lead Project Agency and with support from DA, DENR, NCIP, LGUs, NGOs and Community Institutions (CIs). It aims towards reduction of vulnerability and enhancement of food security of ARBs, upland farmers, indigenous people, and fisherfolks.

Pailig Development Foundation (PAILIG)
In Iligan City, the Pailig Development Foundation – an Iligan-based, Iligan-focused and Iligan-dedicated local NGO- continues to do what BMFI is doing in its present focus-barangays, and is now a major partner of the LGUs and other line agencies in development work in Lanao del Norte.

Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)
The PBSP is a private and non-stock foundation dedicated to promoting business sector commitment to social development. Organized in 1970 by 50 of the country’s prominent business leaders, it has since grown to become the nation’s largest business-led social development foundation.

QUIDAN-KAISAHAN
QUIDAN-KAISAHAN (QK) or the “Solidarity of the Nameless Ones,” is a Negros Occidental-based, non-stock, non-profit corporation that assists the impoverished population of the province, their associations, non-governmental agencies and local government units. It was organized in 1997 to fulfill an urgent mission to further empower people’s organizations and enable them to participate in development initiatives. QK is now on its 13th year of operation committed to helping address poverty confronting the majority of the Negrense population. Guided by the belief that the poor communities have the inherent capacity to find solutions to their problems and pursue their own development, QK directly works in solidarity with the poor in building empowered rural communities that are able to respond to their economic, political and cultural needs.

 
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