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were members of the feminist collective Katipunan ng democratic and gender-fair society, where women change;
Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan, popularly known as are fully empowered, enjoying and participating in n Capable implementers of projects and activities
KALAYAAN (founded 1983). WeDpro members have a protecting and promoting their human rights towards in the area of Research and Media, Education and
long history of being activists and feminists, whose in- gender-responsive and rights based development Training, Policy Advocacy, and Partnership Build-
dividual and collective experience has made a mark and social transformation. ing;
especially in the early years of the women’s libera- n Empowered individual women in a collective for-
tion movement. KALAYAAN was one of the very first WeDpro shall work towards creating and providing mation whose skills, knowledge and resource shall
women’s organizations that took pride in its feminist an empowering environment for women and men ensure that human rights with a particular emphasis
identity. who shall work towards influencing gender-respon- on women’s human rights are addressed in all its ac-
sive and rights-based development in Philippine tivities;
From KALAYAAN’s first call for upholding “women’s hu- society, cognizant of the national, regional and in- n Feminists who believe that transparency and ac-
man rights” in the early 1980s, WeDpro picked up the ternational contexts, and aimed at building solidar- countability are fundamentals in a feminist dialec-
call and sustained this in its programs and activities. ity to advance gender equality, human rights tics of the personal is political;
and social equity. n Committed not only to change society but
As one of the formators of WeDpro said, “ We wanted change themselves in a continuing search for
to test our feminist principles and fundamental philo- WeDpro, with our partners and networks, shall knowledge honing their skills because they
sophical moorings in development work. “ initiate and engage in activities and projects believe that education and empowerment are
that promote gender equality and women’s continuing processes in nurturing our organi-
The project “ Legislative Executive Bases Council empowerment using our expertise in the zational and personal lives.
(LEBC) Comprehensive Bases Conversion Program,” fields of research, ICT and media, educa-
was the launching program for WeDpro, where it pro- tion and training, policy advocacy and
duced a milestone action report called “ Technical Re- social movement building.
port on the Bases Conversion Program for Women
in the Cities of Angeles and Olongapo.” It addressed With its redefinition, WeDpro has been developing
the socio-economic plight of women in the prostitution a collective process of working together, ensuring “The organization also initiates and
systems in the former US Military facilities in Clark Air that women from our communities are given a voice engages in activities and projects that
Base and Subic Naval Base, and developed alterna- in decision making in an account- able and transpar- promote gender equality and women’s
tive programs for the women after the bases left in 1991. ent way.
It initiated and supported the first cooperative organi- empowerment using their expertise in
zation of survivors of military prostitution in 1991 in the fields of Research and Media, Edu-
Angeles City. cation and Training, Policy Advocacy
and Partnership Building in collabora-
WeDpro has since then redefined itself as a collec- “WeDpro works towards creating and provid-
tive that seeks to serve as a dynamic catalyst within the tion with POs, NGOs, LGUs, national,
ing an empowering environment for women
women’s movements and other social movements work- as it influences development that is gender- regional and international organiza-
ing for people-oriented, gender-fair programs and ser- responsive and rights-based in a national, tions. “
vices that ensures women’s empowerment. regional and global setting of solidarity to
advance gender equality and social equity.”