• Vision

CSI envisions to be a service-oriented policy research and advocacy institution that helps establish self-determining rural communities founded on equity, ecological sustainability, gender fairness, respect for people's rights and culture, and economic, socio cultural and political empowerment of marginalized rural sectors and peoples (i.e. Farm workers, small owner-cultivators, indigenous peoples, rural women, artisanal fishers, upland farmers and Moro communities)

• Mission Statement

CSI steadfastly provides alternative analysis of rural development trends, proactively advocates policy reforms, and consistently works for the formation and generation of support for the broad alliance of sectors and peoples in the country, to empower marginalized rural sectors towards democratic, gender fair, just, culture-affirming, environment caring and self-determining communities.

• Goals

• Steadfastly provide alternative analysis of rural development trends

• Institutionalized policy research and advocacy program, which provides up-to-date and comprehensive information and data on burning issues affecting the marginalized rural sectors;

• Published annually information on agrarian reform, rural women, agriculture and rural development;

• Operationalized an information-sharing service to rural sectors;

• Upgraded capability of CSI's resource center

• Proactively advocate policy reforms

• Formulation and advocacy of policy reform agenda on asset distribution, smallholder and rural women empowerment, sustainable rural development, and (WTO) trade liberalization in the agri sector, to address government policies that are detrimental to the marginalized rural sectors;

• Institutionalization of assistance for the indigenous peoples towards reclaiming ancestral domains and recovery of tribal justice and governance;

• Consistently work for the formation and generation of support for the broad alliance of sectors and peoples

• Major commodity leagues and sectoral alliances operationalized at the local and national levels…

• Strengthen existing commodity leagues and alliances

• Create new commodity leagues

• Intensify linkages between and among existing and new commodity leagues

• Support and coordinate with existing fisherfolk organizations

• Increase rural women's participation in all commodity leagues

• Undertaken programs and projects aimed at rural economic empowerment and development.

• Collate and disseminate information on alternative farming technologies and best practices

• Design and publish posters and other popular reading materials

• Provide project development assistance and link service providers to local partners of CSI

• Mainstream gender fairness in all policy analyses, advocacy and commodity-league building activities of CSI
   

• Continuing development of the organizational capacity of CSI