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Mindanao Commission on Women
We assert our right to envision a Mindanao
with reduced levels of poverty and violence,
where women and men participate fully in and benefit from peace and development
MINDANAO COMMISSION ON WOMEN
is an NGO established to provide leadership to address political, economic, and socio-cultural concerns for the achievement of peace and development in Mindanao
OUR MISSION is to INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC
OPINION Mindanao Commission on Women
CORE VALUES• Passion for service• Respect for all creation• Integrity in our actions• Peace and harmony with self,
others, and nature
Mindanao Commission on Women
CORE PURPOSEFor women to be taken seriously!
BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL (BHAG)
The leading organization that will enable women to move and shake society
Mindanao Commission on Women
Drawn during the “Planning Audaciously” Meeting of MCW Partners in Davao City / June 2006
Mindanao Commission on Women
Mindanao Commission on Women
The MCW Board is composed of 11 women leaders. 8 represent the Area Core Groups Mindanao. 3 are Commissioners-at-large.
3 Program Advisory Councils, composed of women leaders and renowned experts and specialists in
peace and multiculturalism
poverty reductionpolitics and governance
All over Mindanao –21 AREA CORE GROUPSRegional Thematic Networks for each program area
Mothers for Peace Movement
PEACE CIRCLES
Mindanao Commission on Women
Another Mindanao is possible!
Not a women’s agendaBut a MINDANAO agenda from a women’s perspective
Program supported by the Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP) / Australian Assistance for International
Development (AusAID)Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)Mindanao
Commission on Women
3 Strategic Program Areas
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
POVERTY REDUCTION
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Mindanao Commission on Women
Our strategies
• campaigns and public advocacy• networking• research and documentation• website and electronic data-banking• integrated communications• gender mainstreaming• Mindanao Fund for Women Mindanao
Commission on Women
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mothers for Peace
A National Campaign for Peace in Mindanao
Movement
Mindanao Commission on Women
Work for peace in the ways of peace
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mothers for Peace
A National Campaign for Peace in Mindanao
Movement
Mindanao Commission on Women
PEACE CIRCLES
Peace in Mindanao is a national concern
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
Mothers for Peace Roadshow – Luzon and Visayas
From NATIONAL SECURITY To HUMAN SECURITY
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
Women’s substantive participation in the whole PEACE PROCESS
Lobby for Sylvia Okinlay Paraguya, Vice-Chair for Peace & Multiculturalism, to be a member of the GRP Peace Panel
Peacemaking (peace talks)
Peace building
Peace maintenance
Mothers for Peace Movement
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Conflict Prevention
Mindanao Commission on Women
Moro and Indigenous Women SPEAK WITH THEIR OWN VOICE
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
PROMOTE MULTICULTURALISMDiversity as the basis for harmony and productivity and not the source of conflict
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
Create a critical mass of individuals and groups
committed to multiculturalism as policy
and as practice
MULTICULTURALISM
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
MULTICULTURALISM AND THE PEACE AGENDA Study Tour in Australia
“If Women Negotiated the Peace Agreement…” project
PEACE & MULTICULTURALISM
Mindanao Commission on Women
• Community consultations• Dialogue
with MILF, MNLF
• MINDANAO WOMEN’S PEACE SUMMIT – Feb. 16-17, 2006
Convened Mindanao 1325, a network promoting the UN Resolution 1325 and
Philippine National Action Plan
Key activities include: documentation and monitoring of UN 1325 and NAP
implementation, advocacy and campaign, lobby for the passage of local legislation on
women, peace and security
Hosted the UN Open Days on “Women,
Peace and Security” in Davao
Lobbied for adoption of gender provisions in the
GRP-MILF peace agreement
Conducted gender training of peace monitors of the International Monitoring Team in Cotabato City
Produced video on “Women, Peace and Security” featuring stories of women caught in conflict who
ensured their families survival, and the successful initiatives of women’s groups in the protection of women’s rights, promoting the
participation of women in decision-making and their roles in the prevention and resolution of
conflict
POVERTY REDUCTION
We focus on the triple concerns identified in the UNDP Human Development Report
on Poverty Reduction – health, education, income.
Mindanao Commission on Women
Invest in women and girls’ health
and education and in women’s livelihood
Major strategy for reducing poverty: INVEST IN WOMEN
and GIRLS
POVERTY REDUCTION
Mindanao Commission on Women
Mindanao Commission on Women
Strengthen the Youth Peace Circles and The Mindanao Young Women Leaders
Forum
Website www.mindanaowomen.org
Mindanao Commission on Women
Regional Thematic Networks
Another Mindanao is Possible! Davao core group meeting
Mindanao Commission on Women
KEEP EXPANDING YOUR NETWORK
Mindanao Commission on Women
Kababaihang Makapangyarihan !