In 1999, there was an initiative to start a partnership among development organizations in the Philippines. Now it is a dream in progress. Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. is an avenue for working together beyond funding, formulating and implementing strategies and priorities of joint development agenda in order to increase the impact of development intervention towards the ultimate benefit of the poor people in the country.

The Partnership has a special character - it is a gathering together of church-based development organizations, non-government organizations, and people's organizations. It adheres to seven principles: the poor are the primary actors of development, transparency, subsidiarity, openness, mutual trust, balance and symmetry, and objectivity.

In the PMPI 1st National Assembly three goals were set for the period 2003 - 2005 are:

• An animated Philippine Misereor Partnership striving towards integral human development;
  
• A partnership that is faith-based, transparent and accountable; and
  
• Full engagement in open dialogue addressing mutual needs and contributions, enhancing synergy of service to and with the poor and accepting the transforming power of the poor.

At the second National Assembly in March 2006, the partnership adopted the seven-point human security framework font as its development agenda.

In the recently held third National Assembly of March 2009 in Cebu city, the development agenda was not changed.

The Partnership is composed of fifteen (15) clusters of partner organizations situated at the different parts of the country. Those clusters are the primary focal points of the partnership, but all are autonomous in nature and in operation. It is the cluster that determines the particular development agenda that best responds to the context and situation of the people in their area. It is in the clusters where the development action happens, and where their particular sectors are engaged.