The Caucus of Development NGO Networks and its 12 Member Networks vow to remain steadfast in its commitments to protect human rights and democracy, promote peace, and prevent violent extremism. In its recently concluded 27th General Assembly held on 07 December 2018...
Rising to the Challenge of Constricting Civic Space in the Philippines
Given today’s political, economic, and social contexts, i.e. shrinking civic space, fake news, rising prices of commodities, worsening impact of disasters, populist policies, attacks on democratic institutions and processes, and others; the role of civil society...
On the Leadership Competencies of Philippine NGOs
In response to the leadership transition issues raised by many of the existing NGO leaders, the Association of Foundations, with funding support from the Peace and Equity Foundation, developed the 10 leadership competencies of an NGO leader. These competencies will...
Learning SHIFT (Scaling up Humanitarian Knowledge Integrating Fun and Technology) through Gamification
Using game-based techniques such as scoring, images, videos, story, roles; and design thinking i.e. empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing to develop games in delivering capacity development programs facilitate innovation and increase comprehension...
Dialogue on Drivers of Violent Extremism and Development Responses
The five month-long Marawi Siege in 2017 and its resulting humanitarian crisis was a manifestation of the increasing threat of violent extremism in the country, particularly in the Mindanao Regions. Rooted in a long history of marginalization, unaddressed poverty and...
#PHVote2019: Citizen Engagement for Clean and Credible Elections
Task Force Eleksyon, a coalition of election watchdogs of which CODE-NGO is a member, commits to organizing voters’ education campaigns and election monitoring for the January 2019 Bangsamoro Organic Law plebiscite and May 2019 mid-term elections. Philippine...