By: Bryan Gonzales Grassroots engagements and systemic changes are needed to address the ongoing climate crisis, said two of the country’s leading climate experts during CODE-NGO’s Social Development Week 2023 Public Forum. Secretary Robert E.A. Borje, who...
Our Planet, Our Health: The Links Between Climate Change and Public Health
by Lianna Cabigas Our planet and our health are deeply interconnected, and this reality is evident now more than ever at the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and in the midst of the climate crisis. In a learning session co-organized by the St. Luke’s Planetary and Global...
Social Development Week 2023: “Facing the Impacts of Climate Change on Sustainable Development” October 16-18, 2023
by: Anna Abalahin After hurdling the COVID-19 threat, the top three challenges faced by Filipinos and the rest of Southeast Asia in 2023 remain to be climate change, economic recession and increased military tensions, according to the latest State of Southeast Asia...
Milestones on the Life of BARMM
The Bangsamoro Parliament enacted 31 bills into laws, says Bangsamoro Minister Atty. Raisa Jajurie, who gave an update on the Bangsamoro commenced the second day of the e-Learning Talk last October 17, 2023. Her presentation included a summary of updates entitled...
Local Governance and Responding to Disasters: Stories from the Response of the Oil Spill in Oriental Mindoro
The People’s Council of Naujan and Calapan City proves that being organized within the local government unit has its advantages. Rosana Cabral, President of the People’s Council of Naujan, and the President of the Malayang Kababaihan Kumakalaban sa Kahirapan (M3Ks), a...
The Road to A New Covenant
In 1991, CODE-NGO conducted its first National Congress with around 1,000 leaders from non-government organizations, cooperatives, and people’s organizations from all over the country to forge a broad unity among the diverse and divided ranks of development NGOs. It...