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Ercof is pioneering the introduction of alternative investment directions for remittances so that this leads to benefits to overseas Filipinos, families of overseas Filipinos, and to local rural economies in the Philippines.

1. Remittances for Development
   
   ● Basic Premises: Remittances of overseas Filipinos for
      development
   
   ● ERCOF's Advocacy Work
   
      ● International conference on identifying effective economic linkages
        between overseas Filipinos and the rural communities in the
        Philippines 10-12 April 2002, Davao City
   
      ● A conference on programs to harness the resources of overseas
        Filipinos for the development of local economies16-18 July 2003,
        Silang, Cavite
   
      ● Overseas Filipinos and Hometown Development: A four-country
        European Roadshow 4-13 November 2005, Luxembourg, Belgium,
        Switzerland and the Netherlands (pdf-944Kb)
   
   ● Enhancing the Efficiency of Overseas Filipino Workers' Remittances
      Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2004 (pdf-708Kb)
      A groundbreaking project that looked at almost the complete
      landscape about remittances of overseas Filipinos. A feature
      here is a nationwide survey of remitters and remittance-receiving
      families.
   
   ● Tapping Filipino Migrant Remittances for Local Economic Development:
      Case Studies, Issues and Recommendations for Policy Consideration
      (commissioned by the Ateneo de Manila University-based Center
      for Social Policy) (pdf-629Kb)
   
   ● Tapping Filipino migrant philanthropy for local economic development:
      presented at a 2006 international conference on migration and
      development organized by the International Network of Alternative
      Financial Institutions (INAFI) - Asia and the Philippines (pdf-481Kb)
   
   ● The Migrantrepreneur (pdf-513Kb)
   
   ● The Philippine experience in transforming remittances for development
      purposes by Dr. Federico Macaranas (Asian Institute of
      Management) (pdf-397Kb)
    

2. Financial Literacy
   
   ● Basic Premises: Financial literacy for overseas Filipinos
   
   ● Personal Financial Planning for OFWs
      by Antonio V. Ranque, Project Development Officer (pps-3.4Mb)
   
   ● BSP Thank You letter (scanned, pdf-173Kb)
   
   ● ERCOF and BSP on regional financial literacy seminars for OFWs:
   
      http://www.ofwjournalism.net/epra/epra%202/eprastories0202.php
   
      http://www.bsp.gov.ph/about/advocacies_fin.asp
   
      http://www.bsp.gov.ph/publications/speeches.asp?id=275&yr=
   
      http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/oct/08/yehey/career/
       20061008car4.html
    

3. Microfinance
   
   ● Basic Premises: Microfinance and remittances
   
   ● Migrantrepreneur article on the Pinoys in the Netherlands and
     Luxembourg who have invested in the rural banks of Milamdec
     Foundation
   
   ● DFID/USAID newsletter writeup
   
   ● PIDS Policy Notes
    

4. Rural Banking
   
   ● Basic Premises: Rural Banking and overseas Filipinos
   
   ● Memorandum of Agreement between RBAP and ERCOF
      (pdf-221Kb)
   
   ● Rural bankers tie up with NGO in tapping OFWs, an article in
      Business Mirror by Dennis Estopace (pdf-31Kb)
   
   ● OFW Money flows to the countryside, a presentation by Atty Ding
     Bagasao at the 2005 RBAP Conference, Davao City (pdf-53Kb)
   
   ● Data on Overseas Filipino Workers and Remittances (pdf-15Kb)
   
   ● The Role of Rural Banks as MFIs in Remittances, a presentation
      of former RBAP president Senen Glorioso in an ADB Forum
      (pdf-451Kb)
    

5. Dairy cow investment
   
   ● Basic Premises: Dairy Cow investment and overseas Filipinos
   
   ● Information on OFWs who invested in dairy cows (pdf-14Kb)
   
   ● OFWJC story on OFW dairy cow investment
     

      http://www.ofwjournalism.net/epra/epra%202/eprastories0204.php

   
      http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2006/07/23/feat/
      despite.soured.deal.groups.offer.ofws.to.milk.dairy.industry.html

   
   ● Danny V. Fausto's presentation on investing in dairy cows
      (pdf-419Kb))
    

6. Local Government Unit (LGU) bonds
   
   ● Basic Premises: LGU Bonds
   
   ● LGU Bonds through overseas Filipinos (pdf-114Kb)
   
   ● Johnny Villanueva of Preferred Ventures' presentation (pps-2.9Mb)
   
   ● LGU Bonds as a Viable Investment Alternative (pps-501Kb)