PROCESS – Bohol, Inc.

“Participatory Research, Organization of Communities and Education towards Struggle for Self-Reliance”

Address/Site Location: Esabo Road, Tiptip Dist., Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Contact Number/s: (038) 416-0067
TeleFax: (038) 500-1992
Email Address: process@mozcom.com
Website: www.processbohol.org

Company Profile;

The Participatory Research, Organization of Communities and Education towards Struggle for Self-Reliance (PROCESS)-Bohol, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit organization, established on October 2, 1982 with the aim of creatively animating the formation of strong, autonomous people’s organizations and building up their capabilities for participatory and self-reliant development.

Twenty-two years ago, PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. began its operation in the island-province of Bohol. Since then it has been painstakingly helping various communities become better, in more ways than one.

The NGO was formed as an offshoot of the Project SARILAKAS, a portmanteau of the Filipino words “sariling” and “lakas,” which means “own strength.”

The project was then under the sponsorship of the International Labor Organization and implemented by the then Bureau of Rural Workers under the former Ministry of Labor and Employment. SARILAKAS envisioned the development of self-sufficient communities as the key to genuine progress. It focused on the cause of migrant sugar workers in the Antique and Batangas provinces and sought to secure better working terms and conditions for them primarily by instituting Collective Bargaining Agreements with their employers.

When the project terminated in 1981, SARILAKAS core staff formally established PROCESS, Inc. on October 2, 1982. In the years that followed, it extended its area of coverage to Northern Luzon, Panay, and Bohol.

In Bohol, PROCESS started working with the fishery communities in the coastal town of Tubigon in March 1985 as the pivotal point for organizing. From a mere field office, PROCESS-Bohol, as with other similar district offices, was granted full autonomy to operate independently in 1996 by virtue of PROCESS, Inc. Board Resolution 12/7-10.

On March 2, 1998, PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. obtained its own legal personality with the approval of its registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

PROCESS-Bohol, Inc. aims to organize effective and autonomous people’s groups and develop them into participatory and independent communities. Such aim is based on the principle that grassroots organizations play a major role in the progress of a society and, thus, should participate in local and national decision-making.