Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola

The Association of Defence of the Patrimony of Mértola - ADPM was constituted in December of 1980, developing since then a strategy centred in the qualification of the individuals and the promotion of the endogenous resources. ADPM mission is basically the economic development, social and cultural of the territories where it intervenes, sharing strategically with public and private entities, but equally with the citizens, the responsibility of active participation in the dynamic of its proper processes of local development. Since the beginning based on the orientation, principles and values that in everything are closely connects us to the concept of sustainable development, which would only get World-wide recognition in 1987, in the report of the World-wide Commission for the Environment and Development - Brutland Report Deepening its paper in the local development of the council of Mértola, ADPM widened in the last decade the thematic and geographic scope of its areas of intervention. The projects that develop individually or in partnership, in Portugal and other countries, have configure ADPM a trans-national dimension, fact that more it enriches the local experience. In a logic of thinking Global – To act Local, we understand the multicultural and the diversity as bases for the development of the people. Supported daily by a multidiscipline working team of three sets of ten technicians, ADPM assumes each time more as an entity turned to the future, preparing itself to share the challenges that come through for the agricultural territories, in particular for the countries and the depressed regions as well as for the excluded people. Supported daily by a multidiscipline working team of three sets of ten technicians, ADPM assumes each time more as an entity turned to the future, preparing itself to share the challenges that come through for the agricultural territories, in particular for the countries and the depressed regions as well as for the excluded people. Institution of Public Utility and considered by the Ministry of the Portuguese Foreign Affairs as ONG - Non Governmental Organization for the Development, ADPM is an associated and founder of other regional and national associations. It is equally a charter member of the “Alentejo Idea” and Confederation of the Associations of Defence of the Environment. It is Member and collaborates with Associations, International nets and Platforms, in particular in the areas of the Cooperation and Education for the Development, Conservation of the Nature and Biodiversity, Sustainable development and Support to other Countries.