Home / Programmes
Our Programmes
Four programmes covering disaster risk reduction, education, community development, and the monitoring that keeps all of it honest.
Disaster Risk Reduction
Pro-active response through preparedness, prevention and mitigation with the most vulnerable sectors, and mobilising the less vulnerable to support them.
Integrated Educational Assistance Programme
Scholarship and educational support for young people across the Cordillera, in a region where public education has been chronically underfunded.
Community-Based Integrated Development
Sustainable socio-economic and agricultural development rooted in Cordillera Indigenous culture, continuing between and beyond emergencies.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Capability Building
Community-led monitoring and evaluation, documentation of lessons and best practice, and continuous staff capability building.
Organising and mobilising among the less vulnerable, towards supporting the more vulnerable, is part of this programme.
Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction
Recognising the disaster-prone situation of the Cordillera, CorDisRDS sustains its function as the arm of the Citizens’ Disaster Response Network in the region.
DRR programmes are geared towards pro-active response, implementing preparedness, prevention and mitigation activities with the most vulnerable sectors at all times. Organising and mobilising among the less vulnerable, towards supporting the more vulnerable, is part of this programme.
To minimise the impact of disasters, we provide food and non-food assistance, medical support, and temporary shelter or semi-permanent dwellings. The effects of climate change are increasingly integrated into how this work is planned.
What this covers
- Preparedness, prevention and mitigation with the most vulnerable sectors
- Food and non-food assistance
- Medical support
- Temporary shelter and semi-permanent dwellings
- Climate change factored into planning
Integrated Educational Assistance Programme
Education in the Philippines has been chronically underfunded, and the shortage of classrooms, books and teachers falls hardest on remote Cordillera communities.
Budget allocation to education has fallen well below the international benchmark for years. In the Cordillera that gap is felt as distance, cost and the steady loss of students who cannot afford to stay in school.
The Integrated Educational Assistance Programme supports scholars from those communities, not only through financial assistance but through the seminars, materials and mentoring that keep students in school and returning to serve their own communities afterwards.
Ways to support
- Sponsor a scholar
- Donate books and learning materials
- Fund seminars and training for grantees
Community-Based Integrated Development
This work continues in the absence of disaster, not only in its aftermath.
CorDisRDS is committed to enhancing the capacity of communities in sustainable socio-economic and agricultural development, grounded in Cordillera Indigenous culture.
In practice this covers livelihood and food security work, agricultural and food processing training, and support for community organisations to plan and run their own development priorities.
In practice
- Livelihood and food security work
- Agricultural and food processing training
- Support for community organisations to set their own priorities
- Grounded in Cordillera Indigenous culture
Monitoring, Evaluation, Documentation & Capability Building
Free, informed and organised participation by communities ensures a greater number of people benefit from our projects and programmes.
CorDisRDS involves community members directly in constant monitoring and in timely, regular evaluation, so that development directions stay on track.
Results are properly documented and become the basis for planning future activities. The insights and best practices drawn from assessments, summing-up and research form the foundation of our strategic planning.
Staff capacities across the fields relevant to their responsibilities are continuously developed, so the organisation’s capability grows alongside the communities it serves.
How it works
- Community members monitor projects directly
- Timely, regular evaluation
- Results documented and fed into planning
- Continuous staff capability building
Support a programme
Partner with us, sponsor a scholar, or support disaster preparedness work in the Cordillera.