The CODE-NGO membership database (as of 2017) encompasses 1,614 member-base organizations (MBOs) located in 79 provinces and 43 highly urbanized and independent component cities. The database contains the MBOs’ contact details, location, accreditation by LGUs,...
Local CSO’s Accreditation 2019 – A Marked Difference
This year’s round of accreditation of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the local Sanggunian has an important activity added to the usual activities being done every time after Philippine elections take place. At the start of the three-year term of local...
Localization is the Key!
Two years since it was founded, the Zero Extreme Poverty (ZEP) 2030 Movement is faced with the challenge of reaching its original target of helping uplift 1 million families from extreme poverty by 2030. To date, it has mapped 16,000 families and has a presence in 70...
Stop the killings in Negros! Protect Human Lives!
STATEMENT OF CODE-NGO August 11, 2019 As the bell tolls in the churches of Negros Oriental, the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO) join the call of its local CSO members in the province to stop the killings they have witnessed firsthand in the past weeks....
The Best Way to Exercise is to Exercise Your Rights
On my first day of internship at CODE-NGO, our supervisor lectured us about Executive Order No. 2 or the Implementing Guidelines on the Freedom of Information (FOI). We were then tasked to read more about relevant information such as the draft FOI Bill 2019 and the...
PHILSSA 29th General Assembly
PHILSSA members gathered once again for its annual General Assembly (GA) held last June 20-21, 2019 at the Walter Hogan Hall in Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City. Ms. Rosemarie Johnson-Herrera, former Chairperson of PHILSSA welcomed the participants with her...