Organic Empowerment Jose Luigi Gabriel Torres Farming may be far from the mind for the typical urban Filipino looking for the route that would lead to the most financial reward. Perhaps there is merit in this attitude because recent data from the National Statistics...
A Living Positive Impact Leah Sasing Inside an unpainted stone building just a couple of blocks away from the busy lanes of Quezon Avenue, sits an old man who already seems oblivious of the present. He enters the room with a curious, jolly grin, eyes...
Integrating Disaster Plans in the Local Government Unit (LGU) Budget As part of CODE-NGO’s goal to facilitate continuous learning exchange among civil society organizations and their partners, regular communities of practice (CoP) are being conducted at...
Official Statement from CODE-NGO We are flattered that Cong. Ridon thinks that CODE-NGO, with its 12 national and regional CSO networks and 2,000 civil society organizations (CSOs) nationwide can “monopolize” the GPB which will now be implemented in all our 1,600...
Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) –Participatory Local Governance at Work We, civil society organizations (CSOs), who have participated in and supported the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) Process, formerly known as Bottom Up Budgeting (BUB), and who...
CODE-NGO and AF defend legitimate CSOs in Manila Bulletin article On the July 20, 2014 issue of the Manila Bulletin, writer Irene Fernando summarizes her conversations with the Association of Foundations President Fely Rixhon, Executive Director Norman Jiao and...