INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
PARTICIPATORY AREA DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MULTI- SECTORAL COLLABORATION:
THE CASE OF SIAD in NEW CORELLA,
DAVAO DEL NORTE, PHILIPPINES
April 25-May 2, 2006

• Introduction
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Venue
• Date
• Coordinators/Organizers
• Prospective participants
• Criteria for Participants
• Financial requirements
• Application Procedure
• Deadline for Application
• Contact Persons
  

Introduction:
Since 2001, the Asian Health Institute (AHI) started new activities to offer continuous learning and networking opportunities among AHI alumni of international course and their development partners who share common issues and concerns. The workshop is jointly organized by AHI and the alumni's organization in collaboration, and hosted at the field site of the alumni's organization.

The first workshop of this kind was held in Bangladesh in 2001, and the second one in India in 2003. Sharing experiences from various countries and an in-depth case study with field exposure would provide a venue to learn from one another, exchange feedbacks to one another, and get hints and insights for making further differences in respective areas.

The workshop also intends to promote the Asia-wide grass-root networking toward common goal, which contributes to build an alternative power base to cope with the current economic globalization trends.

AHI plans to organize the 3rd workshop jointly with the Institute of Primary Health Care(IPHC) in the Philippines in 2006. IPHC, a counterpart organization of AHI since 1983, started taking part in the strategy and process called "Sustainable Integrated Area Development (SIAD)" in the municipality of New Corella since 1999.

AHI as one of the partners in this initiative has been supporting the process in human resource development. In 2004, New Corella received the honorable "Gawad Galing Pook 2004 Award" for integrated area development category from the Galing Pook Foundation.

In the past several years, teams of SIAD practitioners from the Philippines participated in the AHI's international leadership development course. Other participants were very interested to know about their efforts, and many expressed their wishes to have field visit to learn more detail. Seven years of experiences in New Corella can offer full of rich lessons to others who have been trying and struggling in similar strategy/process.

Responding to such needs from AHI alumni, IPHC and AHI will jointly organize the International Workshop on Participatory Area Development through Multi-Sectoral Collaboration, in close collaboration with AHI Alumni Group in New Corella and the municipal government of New Corella, Davao del Norte, Philippines. The workshop offers learning opportunities for NGO workers, PO leaders, and local government officials who are making efforts towards participatory area development.

Objectives:
1) To get new ideas and insights through sharing experiences on participatory area development from various areas/countries
2) To learn from the SIAD experiences in New Corella
3) To have clearer understanding of roles of PO, GO, NGO as partners.
4) To build solidarity and network among participants.

Methodology:
This workshop will be conducted using Participatory Training Methodology (PTM). Sharing is learning and learning is sharing. Though the group will learn intensively from the case of New Corella, each country team is expected to present their concrete cases as well.

AHI alumni, who are NGO workers would facilitate their partners learning by taking the role of translator, coordinator, and co-learner, before, during and after the workshop. NGO workers are responsible to provide orientation to the Philippines and SIAD to their partners before the workshop as part of the preparation.

Each session will be facilitated in less structured way to draw out the flow of experience sharing. Each participant is responsible for her/his own learning with active participation in sharing and discussion.

Venue:

• Mindanao Training and Resource Center, Davao Medical School Foundation, Davao City, Philippines
  
• Municipality of New Corella, Davao del Norte, Philippines
  

Date: April 25(Tue) - May 2(Tue) , 2006 8 days
(Arrival in Davao on April 24 and departure from Davao on May 3, 2006)

Coordinators/Organizers:

• IPHC: Ms. Mariper Mercader with IPHC team
  
• New Corella: Mr. Joel Quinanahan with New Corella team
  
• AHI: Ms. UI Shiori with AHI team

In collaboration with:

• Municipal Government of New Corella, Davao del Norte

Prospective participants:
Basically TEAM participation; one NGO worker (AHI ILDC ALUMNI) with one or two development partners (people's organization leader and/or local government officer who have been closely working in a certain geographical area toward participatory area development) as a team from several Asian countries. The total number of participants would be about 25.

Criteria for Participants are as follows:
1) The sending NGOs, People's Organizations (PO), and Local Government Units(LGU) should be responsible for the selection of applicants. The selection process should be in a democratic manner with consensus. Their participation is to promote and strengthen their organizations as well as the applicants as individuals.

2) All the applicants (NGO, PO, LGU) should have at least 3 years of experience working together in community-based health and development activities in a collaborative way, and can jointly prepare and present a concrete case study to share.

3) All the applicants should have strong commitment and leadership, and support from their sending organizations to apply their learning into practice back home.

4) All the applicants should be committed to continue working in the area minimum 3 years after the participation in the workshop.

5) NGO applicants should be fluent in English, which is the common language in the workshop, and be willing to take translation and facilitation role for their partners.

6) All the applicants are in good health for traveling and living in the rural area.

Financial requirements:

• AHI will pay for:
  1)Workshop expenses;
  2)Board and lodging during the workshop period;
  3)Domestic transportation expenses and airport tax within the Philippines;
  4)Discount rate international airfare with minimum transit minus:
  NGO participant: $200/person, PO/LGU participant: $100/person
• AHI asks the sending organization side to take responsibility for:
  1) Counterpart for international airfare/person
  NGO participant: $200/person, PO/LGU participant: $100/person 2) Domestic transportation expenses within their own respective countries;
  3) Miscellaneous expenses incurred for travel preparation, such as passport, visa, travel tax, and airport taxes in their own respective countries

*For Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and field offices or counterpart organizations of Japanese NGOs, AHI asks the sending organization to pay for the full amount of international airfare plus the workshop participation fee ($100/person).

*For participants in the Philippines: Sending side should be responsible for traveling costs between your area and Davao City. No participation fee is required.

Application Procedure:
Please complete and submit the following documents (in English) to AHI for each applicant:

1. AHI official application form for the International Workshop 2006 (Click the above link for download <MS Word 103KB>)
   
2. Statement by the sending organization with information.
   (For PO and LGU applicants who are applying as partners of NGO, ENDORSEMENT sheet should be filled out by the NGO representative and should be attached to their application forms.)
   
3. Two passport size photos.

Deadline for Application:
Application documents should be sent to AHI through post, FAX or e-mail before the deadline. In case you send in by e-mail, please send twice to make sure. Real face photos should be sent by post.

January 31 , 2006

All the applicants will be informed of the selection results from AHI within one month after the deadline.

*The workshop outline and application form can be downloaded from the AHI website or will be sent by mail or post upon request to AHI. Any other inquiries or comments regarding this workshop, please contact AHI at above address.

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