IFAGPI STANDS FIRM AGAINST MINING EXPLORATION
Overview: Kalinga as one of the provinces in the Cordillera region is rich with natural resources in which throughout the years these had been preserved and protected by the Kalinga people. History has it that this peoples had shown their...
Remembering the 30th Cordillera Day
“Cordillera Day itself is a struggle.” This sentence echoed inside me the way the gongs and chants reverberated in the vast mountains of Pasil, Kalinga. Even up to now, I can still feel how it was said during the 30thCordillera Day celebration in...
Salakniban ken Padur-asen ti Daga a Nagtaudan para ti Masakbayan: A Consultation on Alternative Development Framework and Good Governance
Overview: The Local Government Units and Government Agencies and NGOs under the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) held a Consultation on alternative development and good governance with the theme “Salakniban ken Padur-asen ti...
Learning from the Cordillera communities: Volunteers’ Experience
Last April 23-May 7, three (3) student volunteers from UP Manila conducted their one-month practicum in Pinukpuk, Kalinga and in Daguioman, Abra as part of their Development Studies course. Josh Bata, Paula Bianca Luna, and Sheena Marie Betito...
Abra folk barred from services
Baguio City – Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera strongly condemns the vilification and harassment done to its interns and staff by members of the PNP and LGU of Daguioman, Abra during their press conference this May 23, 2014 at...
Close Encounters: The Defamation of Development Workers
"Sad to say you are members of the NPA"* We've heard a lot of 'red-tagging' and all sorts of political vilifications from the social media, news on television, and in the newspapers but usually we shrug it off, thinking of it as something we just...
The 30th Cordillera Day Celebration
The Continuing Struggle of the Cordillera Peoples Joshua Angelo Bata | Maria Sheena Betito | Paula Bianca Luna According to Mao Tse Tung, the people, and the people alone, are the motive force in making the world history. This was translated in the...
Cordillera people’s organizations call for genuine people’s development
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC), together with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and Ibon Foundation, organized the Cordillera People’s Development Conference last November 7-9, 2013 in Baguio City.More than 200...
Development NGOs and POs Holds Dialogue with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)
Lagawe, Ifugao- In response to complaints filed by the Ifugao Peasant Movement (IPM) on the harassments and vilification of development workers perpetuated by the 86th Infantry Battalion (IB) operating in the province of Ifugao, the provincial...
Cordillera Farmers Study SRI in Nueva Ecija
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) was developed in order to increase the yield of rice produced in irrigated farming without relying on purchased inputs. Members of nongovernment organizations (NGOs) from the Cordillera went to the...
CDPC Co-Organized the Color It REDD-Plus!- The Cordillera Region Roadshow
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-CAR) Co-organized the Color It REDD-Plus!- the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Philippine Roadshow on REDD-Plus with...
North Luzon Mining and Human Rights Summit
BAGUIO CITY- Against the backdrop of black sand (magnetite) mining on the coastal areas of Northern Luzon to the gold and copper mines in the mountains of the Cordilleras, “AMIANAN SALAKNIBAN!” (DEFEND THE NORTH!!) was the rallying cry of the...