Farmers learn basic development principles in managing community projects
“I was glad to know that the community project that addresses community development must be rooted in the basic needs of the majority and must be implemented through community cooperation and unity.” This was the assessment of Lita Alcalde, the...
Justice for Engr. Delle Salvador! Justice for the People of Lacub
We, the family of Engr, Fidela "Delle" Bugarin-Salvador grieve for the untimely death of the mother, a sister, and a wife, who was killed in Lacub, Abra, during the military operations of the 41st Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army (41stIBPA),...
CPA-CHRA Statement: Justice for Engr. Delle Salvador! Hold the 41st Infantry Battalion Accountable!
We cry out for justice for Engineer Fidela “Delle” Salvador, staff of activist NGOs CDPC and CORDIS – an engineer of the people, a woman and a mother, who was killed by troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in a Northern Luzon...
CDPC-DEFEND! Statement: Justice for Engr. Fidela Salvador
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) and its member NGO’s condemn and hold accountable the 41st Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for the extrajudicial killing of our friend, co-worker and...
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...
Message by Ambassador of Belgium, H.E. Roland Van Remoortele, on the occasion of Cordillera Day
Belgium and the Philippines have a long standing and shared history of friendship and cooperation. No doubt the Cordillera Region is the one region in the Philippines which has the closest linkages with Belgium, thanks to the CICM Missionaries and...
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...