The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (“KAS”) is a political foundation that is active worldwide as an think-tank institution that promotes democracy and the rule of law. Its overseas offices serve more than 200 projects in over 120 countries worldwide.
KAS has been active in the Philippines since 1964 through the KAS Rule of Law Programme Asia and other partnership projects for the promotion of forward-looking way for political and economic actions.
For more information, you may visit the KAS website.
The Asian Development Bank (“ADB”) is a financial institution that envisions a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the region.
As part of its vision, the ADB developed the Law and Policy Reform Program which is focused on Developing Environmental Law Champions in order to strengthen the capacity for environmental and climate change laws in Asia and the Pacific. In this way, environmental law professors and teachers in the region are trained on various matters crucial to sustainable development.
For more information, you may visit the ADB website.
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Oceana is an international organization focused solely on oceans, dedicated to achieving measurable change by conducting specific, science-based policy campaigns with fixed deadlines and articulated goals.
The Philippine office, Oceana Philippines, is focused on providing support to the government in its goal to promote national policies that protect the Philippines’ vast marine resources. In addition to that, Oceana Philippines also provides legal as well as technical expertise, and education, advocacy, and policy-making support to the government and fisherfolks all over the country to protect the marine ecosystems.
For more information, you may visit the Oceana Philippines’ website.
The Ateneo Human Rights Center (“AHRC”) is a sub-unit of the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law that introduces law students to human rights advocacy and awareness within the framework of the legal system.
It pursues its mandate of protecting and promoting human rights through increasingly varied programs and services such as legal assistance, research and publication, law and policy reform advocacy, education and training, institution building, curriculum development, and values formation.
For more information, you may visit the AHRC’s website here,
The Asian Society of International Law (“Asian SIL”) is an international non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental organization aimed at promoting research, education, and practice of international law in Asia.
It also partners with various international, regional and national societies and organizations in order to promote and encourage Asian perspectives in international law, as well as promoting awareness and disseminating information relating to research, academic activities and other developments relevant to Asia in terms of international law.
For more information, you may visit the Asian SIL website.