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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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Offices

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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Logo: Peoples' Week of Action
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 27 April 2009
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ADB to face charges before international opinion tribunal for rights violations
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 24 April 2009

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will take the heat in Bali from civil society and the vulnerable sectors in the Asia Pacific region for charges of human rights violations in a two-day international opinion tribunal.

 

 

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Update: Peoples' Week of Action Against ADB
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Organized by International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA), Institute for National and Democratic Studies (INDIES), IBON, RESIST!, Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN)

 

Supporting organizations: Asian Peasant Coalition, AGRA, International Association of Peoples' Lawyers (IAPL), Water and Energy User's Federation (WAFED), Himalayan and Peninsular Hydroecological Network (HYPEN), Water for the People Network (WPN), National Union of Peoples' Lawyers (NUPL), Indonesian Women Coalition, E-net for Justice, GCAP Indonesia, UPLINK, FMN, Migrant Care, UPC/UPLINK, BanglaPraxis, Solidarity Workshop (International), Parivartan, Roots for Equity, Green Movement of Sri Lanka, Alliance of Indigenous People of Nusantara/Indonesia, VOICE, Forum on Women’s NGOs in Kyrgzstan, ATKI Jakarta, SPHP, Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

 

The peoples in Asia Pacific will come together in Bali, Indonesia to unite, raise their voices and struggle against ADB and the IFIs and advance alternatives for genuine development.

 

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Peoples' Week of Action Against ADB
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 03 April 2009

Civil society and the most vulnerable sectors in the Asia Pacific region, will come together in Bali, Indonesia for a week-long string of activities against the Asian Development Bank, in time for its 42nd Governors' Meeting.

 

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Documents: Building the People’s Movement on Climate Change
Written by Administrator   
Saturday, 04 April 2009

Documents from the conference "Building the People’s Movement on Climate Change: Towards COP 15 and Beyond" are now available for download. Click the links on the Topic column below to retrieve said documents.

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Invitation to attend the Asia Pacific Climate Change Conference
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 23 February 2009

Asia Pacific Climate Change Conference:Consolidating the People's Movement on Climate Change Towards COP15
23-24 March 2009
Suan Dusit Place, Bangkok, Thailand

 

The event, organized by the Asia Pacific Research Network and locally hosted by Thai SDF and APWLD, is a public gathering that hopes to gather around 80-100 CSOs in the Asia Pacific region, with the objectives of providing a deeper understanding on the different aspects of the climate change issue from a grassroots perspective and consolidating the People’s Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) towards the COP15 activities.

 

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RoA East Asia consultations in Manila
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 23 February 2009

The Reality of Aid Network and IBON Foundation in coordination with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) are organising the East Asia CSO consultation workshop and multi-stakeholders consultation on aid effectiveness on initiating implementation of the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA).  The venue will be at the Richmond Hotel, San Miguel Ave., Pasig City, Philippines from 9 – 11 March 2009.

 

The workshop will also flag CSO priorities in accessing information on aid flows that will be used in combination with the feedback from consultations with partner countries and with the IATI’s scoping study to develop IATI standards.

 
Forum on the global financial and economic crisis
Written by IBON Europe   
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
IBON Foundation and RESIST, a campaign organization against neoliberal globalization and war, are organizing a forum to initiate international campaigning on the global financial and economic crisis. The panel of speakers will analyze the causes and profound implications of the crisis. The forum will be an occasion for multi-stakeholders (academics, parliamentarians, CSOs, religious leaders and other interested parties) to have a clear view of the current crisis besetting the world capitalist system and come up with a plan of action as a response to the present situation. The forum will be held on January 30, from 12 p.m. at De Balie in Amsterdam.
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Invitation to attend APRN workshop during the ASEAN Peoples' Forum
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 23 January 2009

APRN invites you to

ASEAN: An Enabling Environment for CSO Effectiveness in Development and Human Rights Advancement?
On February 21, 2008
2:00-4:00 pm

A workshop during the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum
February 20-22, 2008
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Registration is free. Please get in touch with Ava Danlog at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for further details.

 

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