Purposes of BLDF:

  • Monday, 20 April 2009 13:14
Purposes of BLDF:

  1. To facilitate technical inputs and other assistance to local communities, such as villages, puroks, and other types and categories of human settlements (small outer islands, uplands, watersheds, coastal communities; squatter areas or urban shantytowns, tribal communities, marginalized communities of specific religious sects, minority cultural groups, etc) to enable them to participate meaningfully in development activities, particularly those related to poverty reduction and the provision of social justice;
  2. To serve as partner of the Government, as well as relevant NGOs and other civil society institutions, in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive Poverty Reduction Program with emphasis on the close collaboration of LGUs and local communities;
  3. To assist the Government identify required policy, planning and administrative support to facilitate continuing involvement of local communities in development planning and implementation;
  4. To establish and maintain a database on local communities as basis for supporting advocacy work on their behalf with Government, donor agencies and other development partners;
  5. To develop and disseminate effective participatory methodologies in involving local communities in poverty-focused development planning and implementation;
  6. To evolve appropriate training designs and conduct training for a wide range of functionaries (policymakers, planners, community organizers, project implementers, volunteers, agency workers, local political and religious leaders, local entrepreneurs) involved in sub-national and/or local-level development;
  7. To promote the creative use of established mass media and existing folk or indigenous means of communication to reach remote and isolated rural communities with development information;
  8. To monitor, document and disseminate outstanding experiences of government agencies and NGOs in working with local communities;
  9. To make available to the international community lessons derived from participatory approaches to poverty reduction through maintenance of a website and other means;
  10. To pilot proactive interventions against poverty at local level which may include preschool education for children of disadvantaged families;
  11. To engage in fund raising activities and incidental thereto, enter into financial agreements and transactions, in furtherance of the Association’s purposes;
  12. To purchase, lease, acquire land and other properties and construct buildings necessary to carry out its objectives.