PhilNet-RDI adopted the LED strategy in five areas during the 2006-2008 program term. Specifically, the 2006-2008 program had the following community-level objectives:

 

1.  Established five model self-determining marginalized rural sectors and people (MRSP) led communities. 

2.  Scaled-up community based programs; and

3.  Strong, dynamic, and militant rural movement among  marginalized rural sectors and peoples that can advocate for reforms, claim-take needed programs and policies from government, implement self-reliant or self-sustaining development programs, and exercise participatory, pro-people and democratic responsive governance.

 

The decision to embark on building five model communities engaged in community-centered enterprises using the local economic development (LED) framework was made when the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees (BOT) held a joint meeting with the officers of the national and three sub-national secretariats in December of 2005. This move was designed to upscale the level of PhilNet-RDI’s intervention in rural democratization and development (RDD) in partnership with MRSPs and their communities.