Promoting Development Research and Advocacy in Southern Philippines

www.a2dproject.org

Context

• Cebu-based development NGOs lack research capabilities, research components are marginalized

• Academic research does not specifically address development theory and practice

• There is a disconnect between development NGOs and academic research

• Think Tanks/Research Institutes are mostly based in Manila

• There is a need to create a community of scholars/researchers and development practitioners that focuses on the South

What is A2D Project?

A2D Project is meant to be more than just a research group, but an initiative to create an environment for collective thinking and discussion to explore and communicate

perspectives of change in society.

To become the leading alternative think tank in the southern Philippines aimed at creating a more equitable, socially

inclusive and democratic environment through the advancement of civic driven

initiatives

Core Principles

• A bottom-up focus on development

• A research agenda that is always combined with action

• An integrated, multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach to development

What we do• Action, evaluative, and policy research

• Design, implement and monitor development intervention projects/programs

• Establish networks and promote policy advocacy

• Design innovative ways of communicating our advocacies and research output

Focus Areas

• Education, Culture and Human Rights

• Civil Society, Governance and Citizenship

• Women, Gender and Health

• Poverty, Housing and Food Security

• Information, Technology and Society

• Cities, Environment and Sustainable Development

We take on the challenge of formulating research agenda and initiatives with an end in view of identifying practical and

cutting-edge solutions to the challenges of Philippine development

Projects and Initiatives

ResearchParticipatory Local Governance in Practice: Lessons from

six cases studies of selected EED partners in the

Visayas and Mindanao

Coastal Resource and Habitat Mapping for Municipalities Covered by the FAO Regional Fisheries Livelihoods

Programmes for Southeast Asia-Philippines

Exploring Livelihood Alternatives for Waste Pickers at the Inayawan Landfill, Cebu City

Survey of Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Methods in Cebu City

Workshops

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Planning Workshop in San Francisco,

Camotes Island

Stakeholders Workshop on Hazardous Waste

Management in Cebu City

Intervention

EDUCATE. CONNECT. TRANSFORM.

Opening a World of e-Learning for Marginalized Children in Small Islands in the Philippines through the One Laptop Per Child Program

Advocacy

RE Summit: Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Energy Development

Participants in a workshop formulating an action plan for promoting renewable energy

Exhibit

Outputs of the Workshop• Creation of Multi-sectoral working group to lobby

for community-based renewable energy and follow through on the output of the summit

• Monitoring of RE use in Central Visayas (30% by 2016)

• Make online resources on renewable energy available (creation of a website)

• Pilot schools and government buildings using RE

In the pipeline• Web-based Development Portal• Mobile Technology for promoting Sexual

Health of Young People: ‘SRH Infolines’ • Citizen Monitoring of Environmental

Compliance and Enforcement• DRR Guidebook: The San Fran

Experience• Assessing Performance of Environmental

Courts in the Philippines