The program supports community-initiated, economically sustainable, ecologically sound and gender responsive development projects.
It provides financial assistance and multi-level capability building to poor communities, who are thus empowered to pursue economic growth and achieve better standards of living.
[3] In its first eighteen years of operation, PACAP supported about one thousand small community-based activities, benefiting around 250,000 poor people.
It has also supported a children’s choir, worked with indigenous peoples on ancestral domain issues, and helped persons displaced by conflict.
The current phase of PACAP is scheduled to deliver A$ 20,000,000 (approximately Php 800M) in grant assistance to projects all over the Philippines.
Within these target provinces, each FOCAS encompasses a portfolio of related projects that are either 'landscape' and/or 'thematically' based, each covering one or more barangays or municipalities.