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Share and participate to make LOCOA an organization for community organizers and
leaders of the people.
LOCOA is a network of community organization
groups from several Asian countries.
At present its central office is in
Metro Manila, Philippines. History of LOCOA LOCOA continues the work of the Asia
Committee for People's Organization (ACPO) which beginning in 1971 instituted
community organization (CO) in several Asian countries. It was composed of three
persons recommended by the Office of Human Development of the Asian Bishops and
three by the Christian Conference for Asia-Urban Rural Missions office. It
initiated CO work in Thailand, Hong Kong and India and strengthened it in the
Philippines, Korea, Pakistan and Indonesia. In the early 1990s, ACPO was
dissolved by the Church groups for reasons of their own.
LOCOA seeks to
replicate ACPO's work, such as: introducing CO to countries where it is not
existing, training COs on a long or short term basis (one to seven months);
organizing exposure trips for COs and their support groups; arranging workshops
in which national groups can exchange tactics and experiences; circulating
information through e-mail and newsletters; arranging for research and
evaluation; and working with other Asia-wide bodies to help make people's
participation a reality. It should be noted that LOCOA retains the ecumenical
nature of the network and indeed expends it to include Muslim, Hindu and
Buddhist member. LOCOA was born at a meeting of ASIAN CO persons held in Baguio
City, Philippines in November 1993.
The meeting was an evaluation of CO work in
Asia. One of the results of the meeting was a successor to ACPO. It has became
LOCOA, though in 1993 it had no name. Over the next three years meetings were
held in Delhi, Hong Kong and Manila to work out the goals and methods of the
organization. A meeting was held in South Korea in September 1997 at which a
program of action was formulated in some detail for 1998 and in a general way
for 1999 and 2000.
LOCOA :
Leaders and Organizers of Community Organization in Asia
28-B, Matino cor. Malumanay Street, Sikatuna
Village, Brgy
Malaya Quezon City, Philippines
Tel :
(632) 925-8432, 426-4119, 922-0988 Fax : (632) 426-4118
E-mail :
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