MISEREOR provides new grant to support work with Indigenous Peoples in Aurora Province
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Clean water finally comes to a desperate village
On 04 December 2007, the PAFID officially turned-over the potable water system ....continue

A listing of maps produced through PGIS methods
These maps have been produced to represent the results of PGIS activities in the area of territorial mapping, conflict resolution and community resource panning. Maps are downloadable in .pdf format ....go to list

Participatory 3D Models constructed by PAFID and partner communities
For more than a decade PAFID has worked with hundreds of Indigenous Communities using Participatory 3D models to identifiy traditional boundaries, facilitate conflcit resolution and provide support in the development of local managment plans ....continue

PAFID is a social development organization which has been assisting Philippine indigenous communities secure or recover traditional lands and waters since 1967. It forms institutional partnerships with indigenous communities to secure legal ownership over ancestral domains and to shape Government policy over indigenous peoples’ issues. PAFID works exclusively with the indigenous peoples’ sector, specifically upon written or signed requests for assistance from indigenous communities or their representatives.

PAFID and its partner indigenous communities have pioneered the use of community forest lease contracts and stewardship agreements, the development of social forestry instruments in the Philippines, and the formulation of ancestral domain bills to counter the wholesale dispossession of indigenous communities and their marginalization from natural resource use planning, disposition and management. PAFID is also a pioneer in the development of community mapping as a means to empower indigenous communities to engage or negotiate with Government. Since 1989 PAFID and its partners have surveyed and mapped a more than of 1.2 Million hectares of ancestral domains in the Philippines.

PAFID today is engaged in the development of indigenous social organizations and community organizing, ancestral domain management planning, community-based natural resources management, community mapping or cultural mapping, agro-forestry, potable water systems, radio communication networks, technical services, policy advocacy and others. Over forty percent of PAFID staff are themselves members of indigenous communities, and several are second or third generation descendants of community partners and advocates who had lobbied for ancestral land claims, and won.