PhilNet-RDI’s framework rural democratization and rural development is guided by the following principles:
- Equity would ensure that redistribution and access to wealth and resources will be undertaken and reflected in policies. Equity also ensures that gender equality will be a basic principle for an alternative development programs.
- Efficiency would ensure that production will be defined on the basis of comparative advantage, maximization of resources and least cost to attain realistic growth levels.
- Empowerment subscribe to the basic principle that development is an enabling process for the marginalized rural sectors, specifically the rural poor, and that their active participation in the development process will be empowering economically, politically, socially and culturally.
- Ecological sustainability allows development to proceed taking into account that resources, especially the countries air, land and water resources including it’s life forms, have to be utilized, managed and nurtured not merely to meet short term needs, but for the future generations as well.
- Ethnicity recognizes the varied and multiple cultures coexisting in Philippine society, that these are part of the richness of the heritage of the Filipino people, and that development should nurture and enhance these richness, rather than impose the dominant cultural mode and consequent models of growth.
- Engendering recognizes that men and women had equal rights, participation and share in the fruits of development initiatives. It also recognizes the role of women on the three levels of social dimensions; the production, reproduction and community involvement.
- Plurality is the recognition that social transformation involves the mobilization of the broadest masses and participation of other development actors, and that no single group has the monopoly of all good ideas. Hence, it is important to maintain openness and respect to the ideas and position of others, and even work with them without compromising the essence of our development framework.
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