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ARDEP Organizational Profile |
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The Asian Rural-Urban Development and Peace Institute (ARDEP) started as an informal movement of Academicians in early 2000 working for public policy research, community development extension, social enterprise initiatives in areas of value-chain approaches and environmental related activities including upland children’s rights and population management.
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Vision
Quality of life against human sufferings and venue creation for public discourse, policy advocacy, quality learning on peace and development in collaboration and partnerships with North and South academic and development resource institutions.
Mission
We are a multi-cultural/inter-faith and multi-disciplinary Institution that implements and delivers urban-rural development services and policy initiatives utilizing unique Asian advantages towards the achievement of global and local excellence within the praxis framework and sustainable development.
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ARDEP Board of Trustees and Officers |
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The Board of Trustees and Officers of ARDEP even during its informal formation and until the present are as follows:
| Chairman |
- Prof. Allen Del Carmen |
| Vice Chairman |
- Jose Mari T. Zabaleta |
| President |
- Prof. Daniel S. Mostrales |
| Vice President |
- Dr. Freddie Maninggo, CPA, PhD |
| Secretary |
- Franmarie Chin-Catague, CPA, MBA |
| Treasurer |
- Engr. Misael Hibionada |
| Member |
- Reynic S. Alo |
| Member |
- Dr. Nestor Abdon |
| Member |
- Robert Gregory Forbes |
| Member |
- Prof. Louie L. Gonzaga |
Management Operations and Senior Officers
| Dr. Nestor Abdon |
- Managing Director |
| Prof. Louie Gonzaga |
- Program Dean |
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- Implement development and poverty-focused agenda with biases on women and children in the context of education and social enterprise coupled with climate change working on the framework of MDG realization;
- Forge relationships on the basis of peace, environment and development by working in partnership with international and local academic institutions, business alliances, government, civil societies, and others;
- Develop frameworks through research partnerships for demonstrating economic benefits of peace to rural-urban enterprise creation, governments, and other institutions;
- Initiate wider discourse through academic and public conferences, publications and direct community development immersions;
- Develop educational content for the promotion of rural-urban development policy under the praxis framework within local governmental structures and academic institutions.
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The mandate of ARDEP specifies the programs and avowed areas for service delivery and development interventions and pursued within the last nine years. The significant interventions and capacity-building measures span the different regions in the Visayas and Mindanao areas in collaboration with local governments, academic institutions, and national and international resource institutions.
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