Empowering vulnerable communities, advancing rights, and building long-term local resilience.
About ACCORD
The Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development, Inc. (ACCORD) is a Philippine-based, non-stock, non-profit, women-led humanitarian and development organization founded in 2010. ACCORD works with vulnerable, underserved, and crisis-affected communities to contribute to strengthening climate resilience, reducing disaster risks, promoting peace and social cohesion, and achieving inclusive development. Through evidence-based, participatory, and locally led approaches, ACCORD supports communities in enhancing their capacities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from crises.
With over 15 years of experience, ACCORD is a trusted partner in humanitarian action and resilience programming across disaster- and conflict-affected contexts in the Philippines. Its work bridges humanitarian response, long-term development, and peacebuilding by combining immediate life-saving assistance with climate change adaptation, resilience building, climate adaptation, and social cohesion iniatives.
ACCORD believes that lasting change happens when communities are recognized as key actors in their own recovery and development, with their local knowledge, capacities, and leadership at the center of decision-making.
Our Core Frameworks
ACCORD’s programming is guided by two complementary, foundational frameworks that place community agency and human dignity at the center of all operations:
Rights-Based Approach (RBA)
Places dignity, equity, and human rights at the center of all interventions. ACCORD supports communities to claim their rights while strengthening the capacity of local institutions and duty-bearers to deliver accountable, transparent, and inclusive services.
Community-Based Approach
Ensures meaningful participation of community members throughout the entire program cycle—from risk assessment and project planning to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, thereby promoting deep local ownership, sustainability, and context-specific solutions.