Sustainable Integrated Area Development (SIAD)

What is SIAD

SIAD is the framework for localizing PA21 and sustainable development in the Philippines. To make PA21 and sustainable development a reality, a SIAD approach takes nature as a starting point. This is conveyed by the principle of "biogeographic equity." Upon these various biogeographical regions, people establish communities and engage in community-based resource management and other forms of community-based sustainable development initiatives. Local people organize themselves as an expression of local activism. They ideally collaborate with local government units, who provide the local link between national and local policies and programs. In their efforts at area-based development, civil society, government, and business interact with each other and try to harmonize and integrate the various dimensions of development: cultural, political, economic, human, social, spiritual, and ecological. If they succeed, then their development efforts are sustainable.

The figure below outlines a SIAD framework from the perspective of the management system. See also the CADI publications, Associative Economics and the SIAD Guidebook of the PCSD for more details.

CADI is currently implementing a SIAD project in several municipalities of Iloilo, Philippines and consulting on other SIAD implementations in the Philippines, including Bohol Province.

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