Projects by Country

• India
  • Support for the Dalits, women, and at-risk workers in the recognition of their social, economic, cultural, and human rights
  • Support for small farmers, landless farmers and tribal populations, in their fight to have the right to natural resources (water, forests, and farm land)
• Indonesia
  • Support for landless farmers in their struggle for agrarian reform
• Pakistan
  • Support for at-risk workers (Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum) in their struggle for the recognition of their economic, social, and human rights
  • Support for at-risk workers (garment workers) in their fight for economic, social, and human rights
• Philippines
  • Support for disaster victims in Pampanga province, through preventing risks for natural disaster and developing agricultural production
  • Support for disaster victims on Mindanao Island, through peace and rural development initiatives

Methods of Intervention

In Asia, the bulk of the work done by Frères des Hommes and our partners is centered on the issue of “Citizenship and Democratization for Equitable and Cooperative Societies.”
This focus translates into support for empowering social actors in rural and urban settings, establishing contacts between these actors, and strengthening coalitions and networks between these social movements at the local, national, and international levels.

Strengthening organizations’ abilities to affect land management, development, and government of their region:

• The objective of the partners of Frères des Hommes is to mobilize local populations to defend their rights, to participate fully in decisions concerning the management of institutional, financial, and natural resources, to gain land access, to improve production, and to establish local development programs.

The promotion of a fair trade economy:

• Defend rights and promote the organization of at-risk workers by supporting unions and rural and urban workers’ associations, taking opinion polls on rights, and lobbying to challenge legislation.
• Support putting in place cooperatives, and systems of savings and credit.

Promoting peace and fighting against discrimination:

• The principal objective of this focus, which is becoming more important given the current situation in South Asia, consists of fighting against discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religion, gender, or caste (in India); fighting against the manipulation of differences and prejudices for political purposes; and promoting a sustainable peace at the local, national, and international levels.
• Frères des Hommes supports initiatives on education against prejudice, community organization to prevent conflict, and inter-community and international dialogues and exchanges.

All these initiatives are systematically adapted to economic and political realities in the countries where we work in South Asia.

Contact: Odile Stab, Project Director, dirproj@fdh.org