(a) Internal, meaning for and in TACDRUP’s project areas and partner-beneficiaries through technical seminars, political and citizenship education, and governance training; and

(b) External, where TACDRUP provides leadership and/or technical secretariat support to a number of core advocacies such as Mindanao peace and development, gender equity, greater local autonomy and federalism.

Through the Advocacy and Governance Program, the institution is active in the Philippine federal movement that aims to redefine the entire archipelago’s political set-up that would obliterate wide socioeconomic gap and disparities.

The role of TACDRUP in federal movement is significant. There are no other groups which have consistently espoused the concept and transformed such into Mindanao’s federalization blueprint. TACDRUP educates the people, the local and national leaders about the feasibility and viability of federalism as an alternative and its political, economic, and developmental context through series of fora and conferences and lobbying efforts. Our very own executive director Rey Magno Teves is one of the flamboyant pillars of the federal concept. He is one of the sought-after discussants on the applicability of federal system to the Mindanao context.

TACDRUP is an active member of a Mindanao-based Kusog Mindanaw (loosely translated as Mindanao’s Force), a multi-sectoral formation that actively promotes peace and development for the island and of the Lihok Pideral, Citizen’s Movement for Federal Philippines (CMFP), a movement which also catalyzes the federalization of the Philippines and seeks for autonomy without necessarily seceding from the republic, and Mindanao Lobby In-The-Works, an Manila-based independent body that includes as its primary task lobbying and promoting for implementation of pro-Mindanao policies to the legislators and the executive department. TACDRUP has also networking relations with the Mindanao Congress of Development NGOs of Network NGOs and NGOs; the Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks; CODE-NGO - the largest network NGO in the Philippines, which recognizes the federalist advocacy of TACDRUP; and other sectors that relate, in some way or another, to our advocacy - LGUs and government agencies, church, academe, business, media and POs. TACDRUP’s presence in the forefront of advocacy work and in a broad coalition of networks is vital as it remains as one of the NGOs in the region that has embarked on a clear developmental vision.