Enhance traditional communal irrigation, no to CRPIP
4 July 2019 Enhance traditional communal irrigation, no to CRPIP The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) calls on the government to channel its resources and efforts towards rehabilitating and enhancing the age-old, traditional...
Milestones highlight CDPC general assembly
Milestones from the programs of the Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) were highlighted during its general assembly (GA) last June 29 in Baguio City. The results of the internal evaluation of the 2017-2018 multi-sectoral and...
Joanna Cariño, First Filipino Awardee of the Prestigious Gwangju Human Rights Award—Salute from CDPC!
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) salutes one of its pioneers, Joanna Patricia K. Cariño for having been conferred the prestigious 2019 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights on May 18 in Gwangju South Korea. The Gwangju Prize...
Not all classes have four walls
"My mother is no longer going to buy DOLE or Del Monte pineapples." Lisa tells when we met again after our exposure program in the Philippines. Lisa is one of the twelve students who came to the Philippines for four weeks from 11 March to 8 April....
Urgent Appeal for Solidarity and Action
Stop the attacks against human rights defenders and development workers in the Philippines! Dear friends, We would like to seek your support to demand from the Duterte government to stop its terrorist-tagging of and smear campaigns against various...
Cordillera Day 2019: A solidarity message of the Province of East Flanders and SOLIDAGRO
The People’s Cordillera Day is a day of international solidarity, a day of hope and belief in a just and sustainable society. The Province of East Flanders, in partnership with Solidagro, a Belgian NGO and recently also the Belgian...
Statement of CDPC on Rachel Mariano’s Fifth Month of Incarceration
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC) stands by the innocence of development worker Rachel Mariano, who faces several trumped-up charges lodged against her. CDPC decries the worsening phenomena of stifling the work and...
Convergence to protect Cordillera Rice Terraces
Baguio City—a conference on the conservation and rehabilitation of Cordillera rice terraces organized by the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) was held last November 20 to 22, 2018 at the Banaue Hotel, Banaue, Ifugao province. The conference...
Submission of human rights situation of Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera to the UNSRRIP
The Center for Development Programs (CDPC) supported the submission of the human rights situation of indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera by the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) to Ms. Victoria...
Submission of Rachel Mariano to court and detention in Ilocos Sur to face trumped-up charges
Rachel Mariano (right) and her daughter Aisa (left) Rachel Mariano, the health program coordinator of the Community Health, Education, Services and Training in the Cordillera Region (CHESTCORE) which is the health unit of the Center for Development...
CDPC Engaged in Community-Based Dialogue on Human Rights Issues in Mountain Province
The Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera participated in a community based dialogue on human rights among the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), Local Government Units, Civil Society Organizations...
Towards Rice sufficiency, System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Trial Farm in Lamag
Womenmembers of the Lamag Farmers’ Association (LFA) in barangay Lamag of QuirinoIlocos Sur has started to test the use of the System of Rice Intensification(SRI) in their rice production. SRI is an agro-ecological practice for managingrice plants,...