Advocacy

Grassroots Participatory Budgeting

Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (formerly called Bottom-up Budgeting) is an approach to formulating the budget proposal of agencies taking into consideration the development needs of...

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Civil Society Index

Civil Society Index (CSI): assessing the state of Philippine civil society The Caucus of Development NGO Networks and the University of the Philippines’ Center for Leadership, Citizenship and Democracy, is conducting a study on the state of Philippine Civil Society...

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Development and Change Politics

There is a growing concern that the traditional tools for protecting our democratic institutions, ensuring respect for human rights, and sustaining democratic change in the country are increasingly being undermined. There...

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Constitutional Reform Advocacy

Civil Society Advocacy for 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...

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Democracy Fund

CODE-NGO Democracy Fund Guidelines As approved by the CODE-NGO Board of Trustees on July 16, 2014. Established in 2002, the Democracy Fund was created to support the advocacy initiatives of people’s organizations (POs) that...

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