SPERI Belief and Behave (1995 -2005-2015 to 2025)



SPERI philosophy is to continue the mission of civil society river development in the Mekong region which was initiated by TEW 1994, CHESH 1999, and CIRD 2000, and then merge into SPERI in 2005, followed by the Lobby Department of SPERI temporarily separating into CODE in 2007.

The first strategy of SPERI, from 2005 – 2015, was to consolidate the 5 rights of Livelihood Sovereignty at different levels: household level, community level, and inter-community level towards intergenerational self-sufficiency, and at the same time to building up Mekong Community Networking for Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA) as a faithful partner and a basic foundation which SPERI could lean on in order to carry out community development by people, from people, and for people through bottom up participation and empowerment in order to achieve SPERI’s visionary plan of  bottom up Organizational and Institutional Development. The second strategy of SPERI is promoting the 5 rights of Livelihood Sovereignty inter-regionally and inter-nationally in order to consolidate civil society Organizational and Institutional Development. The third strategy is to develop civil society Organizational and Institutional Development inter-nationally in order to achieve livelihood sovereignty for vulnerable indigenous minority people world-wide.

SPERI’s strategy 2015-2025 is to work hand-in-hand in an Alliance with MECO-ECOTRA,  CODE and CIRUM towards maximizing all 25 years of efforts and achievements with a reformed methodology in order to encourage interactively the three key pillars: 1) Enlarging the livelihood sovereignty of people who have lost land through land grabs for  industrial farming; 2) Strengthening young indigenous ethnic minority leaders in the  Organizational and Institutional Development of Self-sufficient Ecological Farming;  3) Nurturing nature in order to take care of those who worship nature and who can contribute to the nurturing of the civil society river as a foundation for sustainable government and commerce.