Civil society participation is an important element of good and open governance. The DIME Project of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is a fairly new initiative and CODE-NGO would like to take part in shaping its framework and mechanism for citizen and...
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...
CODE-NGO Hosts Online Forum on Protecting Civic Space and the Anti-Terror Act
On December 12, CODE-NGO hosted the online forum on Protecting Civic Space and the Anti-Terror Act was conducted via Zoom. The forum was participated by various CSOs and members of the academe. This initiative is part CODE-NGO’s effort to start the discussion and...
CODE-NGO hosts Conference on 2019 Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index Results
FHI 360, an international nonprofit working to improve the well-being of people in the USA and the world, recently published on behalf of USAID its 2019 Civil Society Organization (CSO) Sustainability Index Report for the Philippines. CODE-NGO developed the report for...