The Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD) is a media development organization that provides a platform for dialogue and exchange between local news media and citizens on matters and issues that impact on their communities through journalism for empowerment.  The CCJD builds capacities in news reporting and in developing media-citizen engagement mechanisms. It likewise strengthens community-based media networks and journalism initiatives anchored on the principles of public journalism that promotes the idea that the news belongs to the people and that the news should lead to the solution of local problems.


It also works for the safety of community journalists through the Asia-Pacific office of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), a non-profit coalition of media organizations around the world dedicated to the protection of journalists everywhere by providing hostile environment, first aid and basic life support, and trauma awareness training and advocacy.


The CCJD is a founding member of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) which was established to provide economic and legal support to families of slain journalists.  The other members of FFFJ are the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters ng Pilipinas (KBP), Philippine Press Institute (PPI), and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ).


Together with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), MindaNews, and National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), the CCJD is also working to increase the capacity of journalists, civil society and the public in selected areas in thePhilippinesto expose corrupt behavior in the public sector and to promote anti-corruption best practices.


It conducts seminars and training workshops on public journalism, media outreach, role of media in democracy, media and governance, journalists’ safety and security in thePhilippinesand in the Southeast Asian region.  It also established regional and provincial networks of journalists and media organizations around thePhilippineswhose work focuses on encouraging greater citizen participation in governance.


The CCJD was registered onOctober 11, 2001 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a non-stock, non-profit organization.


The CCJD also is the convener of Agenda 5 on media of the Philippine Urban Forum that serves as a platform for dialogue and convergence of good urban governance and secure tenure initiatives. It works throughout thePhilippinesbut also has ongoing cooperative undertakings with the Kuala Lumpur-based The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) of the UNDP.  One of the planned activities of this undertaking is the development of a Southeast Asian media network on governance.  It is a founding member of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) and the Forum on Democratic Options (FDO).


Its projects are supported by the UNDP-Manila, The Ford Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, among others


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Support, encourage and help sustain efforts of journalists working with citizens and institutions for the development of an enabling environment that would result in self-determining communities.

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Better communities through better journalism.

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Develop a new journalistic paradigm that would enable citizens and commnities shape the news agenda by enhancing the skills of community journalists and raising the professional standards of media. 


Encourage greater citizens participation in governance and civic life through public journalism intitiatives.


Increase popular understanding of peace, development, social justice and governance issues through better and involved journalism that would contribute to policy reform.

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Name

Mr. Victor Redmond Batario 

Ms. Adelina Sevilla Alvarez 
Ms. Ma. Constante A. Perfecto 
Atty. Barbara Anne C. Migallos
Ms. Rosario Nabong Cabardo 
Fr. Jovic Lobrigo 

Mr. Luzerino Victor Oliva 

Position

President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary
Member
Member
Member

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Name

Mr. Victor Redmond "Red"  Batario 

Ms. Adelina "Girlie"  Sevilla Alvarez 

Ms. Ma. Constante "Connie "A. Perfecto
Ms. Ma. Aurora "Rorie" R. Fajardo
Ms. Daisy Lyn  "Conyap" B.  Omaweng


Position

Executive Director

Program Director

Training Director

Project Officer

Staff