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The Kab-ot
Gahum: Resource Center for Empowerment & Development (RCED)
is an NGO doing peace and development work with partner communities
and like-minded NGOs in Mindanao and other parts of the country. It
is also engaged in consultancy work delivering professional and
technical services using community-based capacity building, training
and research technologies developed through and in the course of its
long years of experience working with partner communities, NGOs and
Local Government Units.
RCED traces its roots
to the day Balay Mindanaw Foundation Inc. (BMFI) was established.
RCED was then a unit within BMFI that handles training, research and
development of information, education and communication materials
and HRD work. It used to be called Research, Education, Publication,
and Information Team (REPIT).
Through the years REPIT
evolved to what it is now called RCED – gaining and drawing
experience and developing capability through and from its parent
unit - BMFI and partner communities. Towards the end of 1999, the
team began a process of re-engineering, finding the appropriate
people to provide leadership, formulating the vision-mission
statement, goals and objectives, and mobilizing resources. Resource
Center for Empowerment and Development spun-off and was finally
registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27,
2000.
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RCED shares
Balay Mindanaw’s vision:
Equality, Development &
Peace ... for Mindanaw, for the Philippines and for the World
(Kaangayan, Kalambuan, Kalinaw ... sa Mindanaw, sa Pilipinas, sa
Kalibutan)
RCED’s and BMFI’s
barangay-based development work and continued leadership in the
various Mindanao-wide coalitions and campaigns are viewed as rich
sources of learnings, insights and even new appropriate
technologies. These will be shared through the various publications,
conferences and training seminars that RCED will conduct for this
purpose.
Research work will also be
undertaken to enrich the content and ensure the relevance of
BMFI’s area-based operations and RCED’s information, education
program.
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