Project Components

Community organizing and capacity-building

Key to the sustainability of the program’s development initiatives
·Organizes participating households in each community into a Barangay Renewable Energy and Community Development Association or BRECDA, which the program trains to operate and maintain their RE systems and expand their development

BRECDAs choose their own leaders, formulate their own Constitutions and By-laws, raise their own funds to operate and maintain their RE systems and expand their development, and register their organization with the appropriate government agency to give it a legal identity

BRECDAs are further organized into municipal, provincial, and/or regional BRECDA federations for sharing of skills, resources, best practices, and lessons learned; conflict resolution; and wider networking with development partners

BRECDA women and youth are further empowered to fully support their BRECDAs

Rural-energy-based electrification
Community organizing and capacity building
Natural resource management (NRM)
Social projects
Environmental management