PBSP’s 42nd Foundation Day Celebration: Are we Ready for Inclusive Growth? The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) has been motivating the Philippine business community to integrate CSR into their core operations and advocating the application of core...
A Case for Participation and Accountability The need for good governance is even more palpable these days. Various good governance initiatives have sprouted all over the Philippines but few were able to successfully get through the rigors of institutionalization. On...
New Opportunities in Times of Challenge Since 2005, the Caucus of Development NGO Networks together with the Coalition for a Citizens’ Constitution (C4CC) advocated for constitutional reforms, through a Constitutional Convention, to shift the form of government to a...
FOI in ICU: A Call for Rescue by P-Noy 28 January 2013 The Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill is on the throes of death. With just six session days left before the House of Representatives adjourns for the May 2013 election campaign, one and only...
FOI: A Bill that Unites 18 January 2013 JUST as it happened in the 14th Congress, the Senate of the 15th Congress has delivered yet again and passed on third and final reading the long-awaited Freedom of Information Act (FOI). And just as it happened in the 14th...
PNoy tells CSOs to continue constructive engagement with government Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III acknowledged the people who go beyond bashing and activism and really worked for "Daang Matuwid" when he addressed close to a thousand non-government...