The Partnership for Development Assistance in the Philippines Inc. (formerly known as Philippine Development Assistance Programme, Inc.) or PDAP started as a consortium of Filipino and Canadian non-government organizations (NGOs). PDAP is a non-stock, non-profit organization founded in 1986 and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 5, 1990 for the purpose of collaborating with and assisting organized groups and disadvantaged Filipinos to develop into self-reliant communities. It has six (6) member networks with more than 300 community-based organizations (i.e. Peoples’ Organizations or POs) and a significant number of NGOs as members. Its current thrust is the empowerment of rural households by establishing and supporting collective rural social enterprises.

VISION: “Economically empowered rural households”

MISSION: “To contribute to the economic empowerment of rural households by establishing and supporting collective rural social enterprises.”

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:

• To improve rural households’ equitable access (including land tenure) to productive natural resources, sustainable agricultural technologies, capital and other assets; and
• To assist and empower rural households in organizing themselves and/or building the institutions/collective rural social enterprises (they need) for sustainable livelihoods/sources of income.