The Community Crafts Association of the Philippines (CCAP), is a non-profit, non-government organization. It is into crafts, development marketing and sustainable development.

CCAP eliminates the many layers of middlemen in the marketing system by directly linking with the buyers and the producers. With a strategy it calls development marketing, CCAP advocates for fair trade and endeavors to pay the producers what is due them, in a trading relationship built on partnership.

Its strategy includes building small but viable community-based enterprise that are effectively organized and self-reliant.

At present, CCAP has helped evolved nine producer associations that strive to stand on their own and eventually snowball development within their own communities. While CCAP likewise deals with entrepreneurs and family-based handicraft businesses, it expects wider spread and longer-term benefits from handicraft trading for the organized producer associations.

CCAP recognizes that for crafts to be a means to sustainable development, it should require more than environmental consciousness. It would need an economic paradigm that can share and spread the benefits of development to the greatest number and ease the pressure poverty places on the environment. It should also require an effective social infrastructure to build on.

website: http://www.ccapfairtrade.com/