We are a service institution that cooperates with social movements and civil society across the world, with an emphasis on the Global South.
We work with CSOs in building consensus on development issues to bring them to global arenas through engagement in international processes.
IBON International is in special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC).
In Filipino, ibon means bird. In evolving Philippine tradition, the image of a bird in flight has come to mean freedom and, by extension, an oppressed people’s struggle for freedom.
We envision a society and world of prosperity, democracy, and freedom from war and strife, inequality, bondage and oppression.
Our mission is to contribute to capacity development of people’s movements for human rights and democracy.
Contribute to building global mass movements of oppressed and marginalised peoples, to challenging neoliberal globalisation, war and all forms of oppression, and to advancing people’s individual and collective rights, democracy, social justice and equality, ecological sustainability and liberation.
As a foundation, IBON International is governed by a Board of Trustees elected by its general membership meeting. Its officers include a Chairperson, a Vice Chairperson, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Executive Director.
IBON International’s regular and day-to-day operations are managed by a Management Committee, which is composed of the Executive Director, the department/program heads, the Treasurer, and other members of the BOT who are in the regular staff.
