AsiaDHRRA network leaders and participants RecoERDO launch shortly after the opening (photo : AsiaDHRRA )
JOGJAKARTA, BINADESA.ORG– Country DHRRA representatives, and partners from regional and global development organizations gather this 18th of May 2016 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to witness the launching of a new regional program for rural peoples of Asia called “ReCoERDO Asia.”
ReCoERDO – Asia is a regional program that aims to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic well-being of members of rural people’s organization in Southeast Asia through strengthened capacity of CSOs in responding to rural development issues.
The new regional program is a partnership with the European Commission to operationalize AsiaDHRRA network’s vision of self-reliant organized rural communities that are just, free, prosperous, living in peace and working in solidarity. In doing so, the action is geared toward strengthening the network’s capacities and optimizing its established leadership and social capital in the regions towards the improvement of the socio-economic well-being of members of RPOs in Asia.
Dwi Astuti , Director Bina Desa / INDHRRA , delivered the opening speech (photo ; Achmad Yakub )
According to Soestrisno Kusumohadi, Vice-Chairman of InDHRRA (Indonesia Development Partnership for Human Resources in Rural Areas), and one of AsiaDHRRA’s Council of Elders, “For many years, the voices of rural peoples in Asia were put on the sideline by governments. This program will strengthen Asian rural peoples in voicing out their issues, but more so, will be done in terms of enhancing their capacities to participate in development.”
“With the launching of this new regional program, the many potentials of Asian rural peoples Organizations will be unleashed,” this according Marlene Ramirez, Secretary General for AsiaDHRRA.
ReCoERDO – Asia will be implemented in eight countries: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and, Thailand together with the national DHRRAs and other partners of AsiaDHRRA.
For Dwi Astuti, InDHRRA’s Executive Director and concurrent AsiaDHRRA Chairperson, “in the end ReCoERDO – Asia is more than just an agreement between the European Commission and AsiaDHRRA. It is re-building human relationships among rural peoples.” (###)
