• Contact: Mr Raul Socrates Banzuela
  • Address: Room 207, Partnership Center 59 C. Salvador Street Varsity Hills Subdivision Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
  • Phone: +632 434 2079
  • Email: pakisama.natl@yahoo.com
  • Web: www.pakisama.com
  • Members:
    PAKISAMA
  • ASIA /
  • OUR NETWORK /
  • NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PEASANT ORGANISATION (PAMBANSANG KILUSAN NG MGA SAMAHANG MAGSASAKA)

PAKISAMA

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PEASANT ORGANISATION (PAMBANSANG KILUSAN NG MGA SAMAHANG MAGSASAKA)

Member since: 2011

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
1

Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Recognize and protect the diverse tenure and production systems upon which people’s livelihoods depend, including the communal and customary tenure systems of smallholders, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, fisher folks, and holders of overlapping, shifting and periodic rights to land and other natural resources, even when these are not recognized by law, and whilst also acknowledging that the well-being of resource-users may be affected by changes beyond the boundaries of the land to which they have tenure rights.
3

Diverse Tenure Systems

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
7

Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
8

Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
10

Protected land rights defenders

Mission

We are a national peasant confederation and movement dedicated to the empowerment of the Filipino small farmers, fishers, rural women, youth, and indigenous peoples leading in the advocacy and implementation of sustainable agrarian and aquatic reform and rural development. It also promotes the equality of men and women, and responds to the present and historical problem of poverty and injustice. 

Objectives

PAKISAMA’s strategy has two main components: Federation building focuses on strengthening members’ internal capacities to effectively participate in agrarian reform and rural development implementation, including improving their operational, financial and organizational systems. Connected with this task PAKISAMA focuses on strengthening two of its sectoral organizations: the rural women groups (LAKAMBINI-PAKISAMA) and fisherfolk groups (MAMAMYAN-PAKISAMA). Its second strategy involves conceptualizing and promoting, among all its members throughout the country, a sustainable integrated development as a development framework.

Constituencies


  • Contact: Mr Raul Socrates Banzuela
  • Address: Room 207, Partnership Center 59 C. Salvador Street Varsity Hills Subdivision Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
  • Phone: +632 434 2079
  • Email: pakisama.natl@yahoo.com
  • Web: www.pakisama.com
  • Members:
    PAKISAMA
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