Vision, Mission, Goals and Core Values

Today, SIBAT continues to envision a just and sovereign society that upholds genuine development through people-based science & technology development framework. SIBAT’s mission remains as the promotion, popularization and application of sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology for the socio-economic upliftment of rural and urban poor communities in the Philippines.

Goals

In SIBAT’s strategic plan for 2003-2012, SIBAT aspires to help build and promote appropriate levels of village level sustainable development and advocate for a national and pro-people economic agenda, upheld in practice by organized communities and working side by side with NGO-PO networks and organisations.

As an organization providing appropriate technology services to its local partner communities, people’s organizations, non-government organizations and church-based organizations, SIBAT’s nature of operations is characterized by a multi-disciplinary team in science and technology specialists utilizing participatory methodologies in program/project cycle processes and development; community-based project implementation; and promotion of socio-economic development through grassroots initiatives by developing, disseminating and improving the application of science & technology/appropriate technology in rural and urban poor communities.

We uphold the following core values in our work and within our organization:

• Commitment to the cause of national sovereignty
• Justice and principled peace
• Care for the environment
• Participatory processes
• Creativity and scientific innovativeness
• Competence and technological mastery
• Perseverance to learn, consciousness in study
• Teamwork
• Gender sensitivity