DA Budget Monitoring {tab=About DABM} Philippine Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have little knowledge of the details of the national government’s budget process. They also lack the skills and information to analyze and affect the content of the budget of the...
{tab=About PDAF Watch} It is common knowledge that the legislators' pork barrel funds consumes a substantial amount of taxpayer's money, amounting to 20 billion Pesos annually. This is often more than the annual budget of the Department of Agriculture and other...
Credibility Problem to Hound Lawmakers in Proposed Con-ass – UP ProfessorMANILA, Philippines - With legislators suffering from a credibility problem, a Constituent assembly (Con-ass) of members of Congress may again experience difficulties getting public support, a...
Economic Reform and Advocacy Since 2005, CODE-NGO has been one of the consortium partners of the Ateneo de Manila University in implementing the USAID-funded Economic Policy Reform and Advocacy (EPRA) Project. The initiative aimed to establish a meaningful and...
Civil Society Advocacy on Constitutional Reform Since the debates on Charter change started, CODE-NGO and the Coalition for a Citizens. Constitution (C4CC) have been advocating for a meaningful constitutional reform process that would ensure broad-based...
Pork Barrel Watch or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Watch It is common knowledge that the legislators' pork barrel funds consumes a substantial amount of taxpayer's money, amounting to 20 billion Pesos annually. This is often more than the annual budget...