The Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF) is a Philippine funding organization that envisions self-sustaining households providing for their basic needs– food, water, shelter, health, education – and contributing to the socio-cultural growth, economic development and effective governance of their sustainable communities.
PEF will pool and harness financial and knowledge resources to help rural households gain better incomes and move out of poverty through social enterprises.
To reach this goal, PEF will:
- Build on social enterprise development models that work;
- Enable entrepreneurial capacities of communities and civil society partners; and
- Promote good governance and people’s participation in local enterprise and economic development
PEF was formed as an independent non-profit foundation in October 2001 to support the work of civil society in eradicating poverty. The Foundation manages an endowment fund from the proceeds of the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificate (PEACe) Bonds raised by the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE NGO).