Ensuring empowerment, democratization, and governance, along with peace and human rights, are themes found in the Development and Reform Agenda for 2022 – 2028 (DRA)*. The DRA and the process of agenda-building traces its roots in the 2010 elections. In 2009, in the...
The Development and Reform Agenda (DRA)
Ensuring empowerment, democratization, and governance, along with peace and human rights, are themes found in the Development and Reform Agenda for 2022 – 2028 (DRA)*. In selecting agenda actions, priority was placed on the concerns and positions of the poor sectors...
Cementing reforms in local governance
Merits of CSO Networking and the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) roll out in 2013-16 (Photo of the Regional Forum on the BUB and BUB 383 Mindanao Conference, August 2015, Davao City) Despite the COVID-10 challenges in the past seven months, Philippine civil society...
Promoting Participation, Peace, and Human Rights in the New Normal
CODE-NGO upholds its mandate to influence public policy through protecting civic spaces and ensuring participation in democratic process in the country. At the start of 2021, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) released a Memorandum Circular...
COVID Pulse PH – Kamustahan through chat bots
The Zero Extreme Poverty 2030 PH Movement (ZEP) found ways to reach out to communities living in poverty and endeavored to know how they have fared in the pandemic. With its partners, the United Nations Development Programme in the Philippines (UNDP) and AI4Gov, ZEP...
Priority Advocacies Adapt to Virtual Platforms for Online Forums
CODE-NGO’s members who steer the network’s priority advocacies of Peace, CSO Good Governance, Asset Reform and Participatory Local Governance used Zoom and Facebook to inform and educate key stakeholders about important issues even in the time of the pandemic. As the...