IBON International is the international division of IBON Foundation, Inc. As an international NGO, IBON Foundation responds to international demand to provide support in research and education to peoples’ movements and grassroots empowerment and advocacy and links these to international initiatives and networks.
IBON International initiates and implements international programs, develops and hosts international networks, initiates and participates in international advocacy campaigns, and establishes regional and country offices where necessary and appropriate.
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IBON Foundation is a non-stock non-profit development institution committed to serve the Filipino people through various programs in research-education-information.
IBON Europe was set up in 2007 as the base for IBON International's program in Europe. It will initially focus on EU member states where it will develop partnerships with grassroots-based movements of marginalized peoples and sectors according to its mandate.
IBON South Asia's thrust is the empowerment of grassroots in the sub-region by developing the capacity of people's movements and grassroots organizations through research-education and advocacy support. IBON South Asia provides needed support to movements of marginalized sections of society such as Dalits, Adivasis, women, peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk and the toiling masses to empower them in building free democratic societies in the sub-region
IBON Africa focuses on building knowledge based capacity for grassroots organizations, social movements and local community based organization (CBOs) and NGO in the Africa region. To attain this objective, IBON Africa provides various services to sectors and organization in the Africa community - access to timely and relevant information through its databank and publications; training and seminars; organizing of international events to tackle such themes as golbalization, food sovereignty, aid and development and governance initiated by IBON in partnership with other international networks.
Networks
The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) was established in 1998 as a result of networking including a number of conferences in 1997, where the objective to channel and focus the efforts of NGO research towards supporting the need for information, education and advocacy of grassroots organizations was recognized by a number of key Asian research organizations or non-government organizations with established research departments.
The Reality of Aid network is the only major north/south international non-governmental collaboration focusing exclusively on analysis and lobbying for poverty eradication policies and practices in the international aid regime.
Issue Networks
The People's Movement on Climate Change is a global campaign that aims to provide venue for grassroots, especially from the South - who are the worst-affected and yet are the least empowered to adapt to climate change - to participate in the process of drawing up a post-2012 climate change framework.
The Water for the People Network (WPN) Water for the People Network (WPN) is a campaign network that supports the various water-related struggles at the grassroots in order for them to achieve national and international projection. It also serves as an information and resource center as well as a coordinating body for joint actions and campaigns on the national and international levels.
The International Initiative on Corruption and Governance (IICG) was set up in 2001 to promote interest on corruption and governance issues from a grassroots perspective that takes into account all aspects of corruption, including systemic factors and corruption in the private sector.
Network Participant
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global network of communicators committed to communication for social change.
The Our World is Not For Sale (OWINFS) is a worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment.
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| Take responsibility for global warming, Filipino educators tell First World |
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| Written by Educators for Development | |
| Wednesday, 09 December 2009 | |
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Manila, Philippines - As 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) enters its third day, cause-oriented groups and progressive educators in the Philippines hit the US and other developed countries for refusing to take responsibility for global warming.
Led by the Educators for Development (EfD), the groups held the Peoples’ Assembly on Climate Change: ‘Speakout Against Climate Change’, in Quezon City, a cultural forum to express their vigilance on the ongoing climate talks in Copenhagen. The groups are urging the 192-country UN delegation to sign a landmark deal that would require developed countries to significantly reduce GHG emissions and exact payments for their massive GHG emissions that led to the increasingly rapid warming of earth's atmosphere. According to Jaz Lumang, EfD spokesperson and IBON executive director, while the industrial and massive resource extractive activities of First World corporations are largely responsible for the earth's warming, they managed to use climate change as a new arena for profit generation through the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. “The US and its corporations lobbied for market based mechanisms to be part of the solutions to climate change to be embodied in the Kyoto Protocol,” she said. The Kyoto Protocol actually facilitated the creation of a global carbon market which as of 2008 is worth some US$126 billion which is about 12 times bigger than when the carbon market started in the European Union at US$10 billion in 2005. Since then, the size of the carbon market has tripled and doubled in the succeeding years. Richard Gadit, who represented indigenous peoples in the ‘Speakout’ said, “Indigenous peoples see the Kyoto Protocol as a market-based solution and mechanism for the encroachment of big foreign corporations into our ancestral lands. It is a profit-oriented scheme aimed to intensify their exploitation of the rich natural resources in our territories in the name of environment protection.” Meanwhile, Arnold dela Cruz, union president of Republic Asahi Glass Corporation in Manila said during the ‘Speakout’ that the Philippine government should also made accountable for the growing vulnerability of the country to the effects of climate change. “The government continues to enact and implement laws like the Mining Act and NIPAS as well free trade agreements such as the JPEPA that intensify the plunder of our land and resources resulting in the further environmental destruction,” he said. According to the EfD, the many thorny issues confronting the COP 15 only show how uncommitted developed countries are in addressing the damage they have caused. “It is only right the peoples of the world make them accountable and demand their full compliance to reduce their carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases and stop the plunder and destruction of the world’s natural resources,” said Buncan. The ‘Speakout’ featured cultural presentations that depicted corporate plunder of the environment by progressive groups such as Sinagbayan, People’s Chorale, Katribu and IBON. At the end of the activity, EfD participants signed the People’s Protocol on Climate Change and put their thumbprint on a symbolic image of a dying earth. “This act represents our vow to take action against climate change and carry this commitment to our schools and communities beyond COP15,” said Buncan. |
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