In recent years, many CSOs have expressed a growing concern for an honest and transparent general election in May 2022 at the risk of fraud and corruption by traditional politicians. CODE-NGO recognized the need for urgent and concrete action to protect our democratic...
In response to the challenging times, the CODE-NGO secretariat took the time to review, develop, and improve organizational policies to continue its mission of providing quality services and programs to its staff, members, and partners under this new normal. In...
CODE-NGO upholds its mandate to influence public policy through protecting civic spaces andensuring 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 (MC...
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...
In the second year of the pandemic, CODE-NGO continued to implement and provide capacity building interventions and initiatives to its member networks and member base organizations for them to better cope with the ongoing adversity and to be more accountable and...
Photo courtesy of: PBSP In January 2021, the virtual launch of the publication “Populism and Philippine Civil Society: Views from Labor, Urban Poor, and Development NGOs” (Lopa-Perez, 2020) provided an opportune time for CODE-NGO to begin a process of self-reflection....