Organizational Profile
The Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance, and rural development. ANGOC conducts joint field programs and policy debates with national governments, intergovernmental organizations, and international financial institutions.
ANGOC is one of the remaining regional membership-based networks that originated in Asia. ANGOC network members and partners work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka, with an effective reach of some 3,000 CSOs and constituency-based organizations.
The network was founded in Bangkok in February 1979, following a two-year series of village- and national-level consultations in 10 Asian countries in the framework of the World Conference for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD). Since then, ANGOC has been contributing to empowering Asian rural communities by reforming policies of institutions and enhancing capacities of Asian CSOs. ANGOC has Consultative Status II with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN), and has official Consultative Status with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN.
VISION
Vibrant, peaceful, diverse Asian rural communities, living in harmony with nature as stewards of the earth, whose members are able their full human potentials, collectively chart their path to development, provide for their present and future needs, and share equitably the fruits of their labors in community celebrations of life.
MISSION
The ANGOC network shall advocate and promote land and resource rights, small-holder agriculture, and human rights and civic participation, by serving as a platform for Asian CSOs to generate constructive knowledge, share tools, and conduct constructive policy dialogues.
GOAL
For 2021-2025, ANGOC as a resource center shall (a) advocate for land and resource rights of the rural poor; (b) promote smallholder agriculture towards sustainable food systems and livelihoods; and, (c) collaborate with other like-minded groups and individuals towards the protection of civic and democratic spaces through a broad platform of Asian CSOs, communities, and individuals that challenges the development agenda, reforms institutions, and fosters the exchange of critical lessons, tools and approaches towards food sovereignty, equitable land and resource rights, effective and responsible governance, and sustainable livelihoods.
