The IRDT Program and Services

1. Peace Education and Literacy Program (PELP) A. Peace Education: a soft component in the promotion and advocating culture of peace in a culturally diverse community in Mindanao. The holistic approach of IRDT is to solve equal participation of tri-people. The component aimed at providing peace education seminars and trainings, promoting cultural heritage, art works for peace, community based interfaith dialogue, and integration of peace education in its literacy program.

B. Literacy: Level I- is designed to provide basic non-formal education to prospective learner beneficiaries who have not gone to school irregardless of gender and age. Basically, it facilitates familiarization of English and Filipino alphabet and numbers, infused with basic writing skills, values, social ethics and peace education. Level 2- Learning foci are Filipino-English reading, writing and arithmetic, Integrated with socio-economic-political-cultural and civic consciousness, GAD and peace education.2. Local Governance

The component aimed to enhance capacities of local special bodies in target communities, modeling skills enhancement of local officials in Barangay Development Planning through Participatory Resource Appraisal/Participatory Coastal Resource Appraisal as an approach to community participatory governance.
4. Women and Children Protection (WCP)

This component works in collaboration with government agencies, non- government organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders in the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive and integrated program to prevent and suppress trafficking in persons and develop a mechanism to ensure the timely, coordinated and effective response to cases of trafficking in persons.

5. Relief and Emergency Response (RR)

This component attributes IRDT as one of the lead implementing agencies of Mindanao Emergency Response Network (MERN) for Zamboanga Peninsula and ARMM Island Provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi. Mainly, our assistance to emergency situation is through access of support/assistance from partner- organizations and deployment of volunteers to affected areas whether home-based or center-based. Through partnership with local government units, IRDT helps facilitate data validation and assessment, as well as assist/facilitate resource accessing. Psychosocial debriefing and disaster management and other trainings are also part of the services.

6. Socio-Economic and Livelihood Program (SELP)

IRDT helps communities in developing an industry-based livelihood program:

a. Entrepreneurship and Skills Training: designed to train PO’s selected potential members in any trade area that either will enhance the community existing industry or in support to proper utilization and maximizing community resource. Our assistance also includes market network and linkages.

b. Community-fund Management: intended to provide capital for under-privileged sectors that are engaged or are engaging in small-scale or self-income generating project. The program adopts community-fund management scheme as a high regard to culture sensitivity especially in Muslim communities.

c. Home-based Food Security Program: aimed at providing farm inputs grants to agriculture potential communities. Basically, it is a promotion of background gardening; encouraging individual families to make small-farming a great promising food security at the minimum and agri-business enterprise at large.

7. Ecological and Environmental Care Program (EECP)

The component focuses on advocacy, bio-diversity and building capacity of local government and special bodies on environmental governance. It primarily facilitates coastal resources management, upland and agricultural development, land tilling and tenure improvements in collaboration with government concerned agencies.

8. Technical Assistance and Consultancy (TAC)

With IRDT’s experiences and exposures in community integrated development work, it offered technical and consultancy services to partners in the following trade areas:
1. Community-based infrastructure development projects;
2. Social Preparation-Community Organizing and Development;

3. Implementation of Community-based Trainings and Skills Transfer specialized in PIME, Resource-based Management, GAD-RBA, Peace Education, Community Environment and Disaster Management, Institutional Building and Organizational Development and Management, Accountancy for Non-accountants or Community-based Financial Management, Community-fund Management, Community Enterprise Development, Cooperative Memberships, Education Services, Trainers Training on Community Organizing, and Art works;
4. Barangay Development Planning using PRA and PCRA tools;
5. Project Development and Resource Mobilization.

Our consultancy services to other institutions and private partners is a great facilitating factor that helps in the delivery and implementation of community projects and services under other components of the program despite scarcity of financial resources. The Technical Assistance and Consultancy (TAC) component serves as the