Mekong Community Network Action for Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA)
Learning is a key
SPERI’s work toward creating a Grassroots foundation for Traditional Civil Society Organizational & Institutional Development beyond national, territorial, social, and political borders has resulted in the creation of Mekong Community Network Action for Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA).
MECO-ECOTRA operates in terms of six thematic networks: 1) Customary Law in Community Governance and Management of Natural Resources; 2) Community Ownership of Spirit Forest and Bio-Cultural Diversity; 3) Eco-Farming Knowledge for Sustainable Land Use Planning and Livelihood Security; 4) Herbal Medicinal Wisdom for Community Healthcare and Bio-diversity Preservation; 5) Women’s Wisdom in Natural Dying and Embroidery of Textile Handicrafts; 6) Farmer Field School (FFS) for Teaching by Learning, Learning by Doing toward Leadership in Democratization and Decentralization.
These 6 thematic networks are interrelated and are aimed at achieving livelihood sovereignty defined in terms of 5 interrelated rights: 1) the right to Land (basic); 2) the right to performance one’s own religion on one’s own land (unique); 3) the right to practice one’s own knowledge in daily farming (practice); 4) the right to decide what to grow on one’s own land (holistic); and 5) the right to co-government of one’s land (strategic).
MECO-ECOTRA is the foundation for the ‘river’ of Traditional Civil Society flowing peacefully between Government and Business in order to balance public and private interests, nourishing both with visionary, strategic and practical direction for innovative win-win solutions for holistic development.
In the early 1990s, TEW, identified the problem afflicting indigenous and ethnic minorities in the Mekong region as one of ‘structural poverty’ caused by a three overlapping vicious circles: 1) isolation from decision making processes that affect their lives, 2)un-confidencein the formal political system that treats ethnic minorities as ‘backward’, and 3)no-ownership(of ...
Together with evolution of BHE, Nine steps of approach to structural poverty reduction from practical work and development strategy of PASTE (PArticipation, Share-responsibility for Transparency and Equality) are drawn out to become series of interacting actions and thinking of community development ...
This ladder have been built and tested by Towards Ethnic Women (TEW), Center for Human Ecology Studies of Highlands (CHESH) and Center for Indigenous Knowledge Research and Development (CIRD) ...
The theoretical foundation of SPERI’s work is the theory of Biological Human Ecology (BHE), a dynamic and indigenously grown theory based on the worship of nature and the ideological values of indigenous people ...
Thầy thắp sáng lại Niềm tin từ những trái tim vô vọng; Để lái những chuyền đò đưa học trò cập bến đam mê; Chốn rừng xanh mênh mang, Thầy là tiếng chim Cuốc gọi về; Sưởi ấm lại Đầy - Vơi - Ý nhị và Thi vị 'Thuở Xưa'; Ở tuổi nghỉ ngơi, Thầy vẫn đội ...
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