Awarded April 26, 2003


"We build empowered communities in Biliran."

Pictorials

PDI Activities for 2002
(As of December 31, 2002)

PDI Work Plan for 2003

Lost meanings in Biliran
(On "Panamao" and "Biliran")

The Biliran Context
(An NGO Perspective)

Panamao Development Initiatives (PDI), Inc.
(Vision, Mission, Core Beliefs
and Values, Incorporators
and Officers, and Staff)

PDI Programs for
2002-2006

Crusade for Good
Barangay Governance
(PDI Concept Paper)

Biliran Province

Balay Panamao new!
(Website of the Biliran Historical and Cultural Society)

Education in Biliran new!
(DepEd Biliran Website)

Naval School of Fisheries

Reflections of
Young Japanese

Sunset in Biliran
(World War II in Biliran Town)

Hometown Naval

Kawayan Homepage

Almeria Webhome


Webmaster

Created: September 2002




Welcome to the website of Panamao Development Initiatives (PDI), Inc., a non-government organization (NGO) duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines and based in Naval, Biliran Province.

PDI envisions a Province of Biliran whose people, rooted in its history and culture, are critical, active and enjoying a better quality of life that does not prejudice the needs of future generations. As a locally-initiated NGO, PDI is committed to build empowered communities towards improving the quality of life of the Biliranons.

Join us and support our alternative and complementary programs and efforts to develop our province and our people.



Revisiting the Balangiga Conflict new!


The webmaster's book, The Balangiga Conflict Revisited, is now off the press. It is published by New Day Publishers in Quezon City. Should you wish to get a copy, please call up the office of New Day Publishers at (632)928-8046, (632) 927-5982, or e-mail them at newdayorders@edsamail.com.ph. Copies are also now available at National Book Store outlets all over the country.

In the U.S., copies may be ordered from Philippine Expressions Bookshop, 2114 Trudie Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca 90275-2006, Tel. (310)514-9139, Fax (310)514-3485, email: lindanietes@earthlink.net.

The linked article above is the webmaster's column item about his book, published in the INQUIRER Visayas section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer on March 15, 2003.

Assessing Approaches in Community-Based
Coastal Resource Management in the Philippines


Emil Justimbaste, Executive Director of the Ormoc-based Pagtinabangay Foundation, Inc. (PFI), is also a founding-member of PDI. A Ford Foundation grant led him to California, USA, as Residential Fellow of the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics at the Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, from September-December 2000. The link connects to Justimbaste's fellowship research paper.



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