2011 Copyright United Nations System in the Philippines In cooperation with the UNDP, the MDG Achievement Fund,

and the UN Millennium Campaign Cover photo by Eji Eustaquio

Lessons from the HD2010 Experience in the Philippines

Citizens Voices

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Foreword by the UN Resident Coordinator Message from the CSAC co-convenor

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Introduction iii Amplifying Citizens Voices in Development Planning Winning the War on Poverty Engaging local governments, empowering communities Reaching out, rallying the youth Annex Members of the UN Civil Society Assembly 1 4 8 12

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FOREWORD

he year 2010 marked the anniversary of three United Nations events: the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Human Development Report, the 15th anniversary of the World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, and the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Millennium Declaration in New York by the leaders of the Philippines and 188 other countries. As we celebrated those milestones, the UN felt a strong urge to engage citizens more actively and magnify their voices in the development process. After all, the essence of the UNs work is the welfare of the people. Platform HD2010 is a partnership initiative between the UN Development Programme, the MDG Achievement Fund and the UN Millennium Campaign, which aims to ensure greater citizen voice and accountability in policies and practices related to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Six countries were selected as focus countries for HD2010, and we are very proud of the fact that the Philippines was the first country to be selected. A supportive UN Country Team and a hardworking UN Civil Society Assembly immediately put their hands and minds together to come up with the Platform HD2010 workplan for the Philippines. The operationalization of Platform HD2010 had to begin with the preparation of a unified workplan. In the main, the workplan consisted of four activities whose common denominator was a participatory approach to accelerating achievement of the MDGs, given that only five years remain of the 15-year MDG period. This publication documents the experience of Platform HD2010 in the execution of those four activities. One of the strongest reasons for the Philippines having been chosen as one of the six focus countries for HD2010 is the existence of a strong and heavily engaged civil society. The success of the projects would not have been possible without the hard work and sense of commitment of Platform HD2010s civil society partners in the Philippines. The UN system salutes their dedication. We strongly hope that such successful partnership between the civil society and United Nations will continue.

JACQUELINE BADCOCK Resident Coordinator United Nations System in the Philippines

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latform HD2010 could not have come at a better time for the Philippines. As development watchers eagerly anticipated the MDG+10 Review Summit, the Philippines was entering a new phase in its development.

In May 2010, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, garnered what would be one of the largest pluralities in Philippine electoral history. The newly elected President ran on a peoples campaign fueled by the spirit of volunteerism and active citizenship based on an anti-corruption and antipoverty platform. At the same time, the UN Civil Society Assembly (UNCSA), comprised of 68 civil society organizations serving as a consultative body to the United Nations, was entering a new phase aimed at forging a partnership with the UN Country Team involving greater participation in the crafting of the UN development assistance framework for the country. Set against this backdrop, Platform HD2010 was a welcome opportunity for civil society and the UN to engage more actively and for civil society to influence not only UN programs and projects but also, more importantly, Government processes. UNCSA, through its biennially elected 15-member Civil Society Advisory Committee (CSAC), which I was privileged to chair as co-convenor together with the Resident Coordinator, wasted no time and started working with the UN in developing the HD2010 workplan and start the process of implementation. Implementing HD2010 was not an easy journey. Bringing the civil society organizations (CSOs) together, and getting them to work together, in the midst of strong and differing opinions and advocacies, was just one of a number of challenges the HD2010 partners faced. Pushing the HD2010 advocacy before the Government, even one that was generally open to citizens participation, proved to be a particularly difficult endeavor as processes, biases and habits of old seem to have stood in the way. But there have been significant gains along the way. And for that I wish to thank the UN Resident Coordinator, the UNDP Country Director, the UN Millennium Campaign and the UN Country Team for the role they played in helping Philippine civil society get a diverse group of individuals and organizations to work together and get the Government to take notice. The members of the UNCSA deserve thanks for helping to ensure the success of the project. We hope that the success of Platform HD2010 will not end with the publication of the Philippine experience as seen in the succeeding pages. The ways of old still linger. The new ways of governance and development still have to be firmly established. The job has only just begun.

SIXTO DONATO MACASAET Executive Director, Code-NGO CSAC Co-convenor (2007-2011)

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he year 2010 was a significant year for the United Nations. It marked three milestones in global development: the 20th year of the launching of the UN Development Programmes (UNDP) Human Development Report, the 15th year since the World Conference on Women in Beijing and, most notably, the 10th year of the signing of the Millennium Declaration. Ten years after 189 world leaders signed the Millennium Declaration, some progress had been achieved; however, much more needed to be done. Platform HD2010: Civic Engagement for MDGs and a New Multilateralism a collaboration between the UNDP Civil Society Division, UN Millennium Campaign and the MDG Achievement Fund recognized that for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved, the active participation of civil society was fundamental. The citizens voices had to be heard in the MDG processes. When the Philippines was invited to develop a workplan in order to receive a grant of $140,000 for a one-and-a-half year project that aimed to strengthen civil society and civic engagement in human development and multilateralism and ensure greater citizen voice and accountability in policies and practices related to the achievement of the MDGs, the UN Country Team immediately accepted the challenge. The UN Millennium Campaign, which had worked closely with civil society organizations (CSOs), was given the task of developing a workplan aimed at amplifying citizens voices and making them part of the development process. The September 2010 High-Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly, commonly called the MDG+10 Review Summit, would shortly be taking place in New York. In operationalizing HD2010, the Philippines enjoyed one crucial advantage: the UN Civil Society Assembly (UNCSA) consisting of 68 CSOs. UNCSA is a consultative body to the UN. A biennially elected 15-member Civil Society Advisory Committee (CSAC) within the UNCSA actively engages CSOs in reviewing the relevance and effectiveness of the UN agenda for the development of the Philippines. In consultation with the UNDP Country Director the representative of the Resident Coordinator in the UNCSA the Millennium Campaign prepared a workplan and presented it to the UN Country Team (UNCT) and the CSAC in a special meeting in February 2010. After some revisions and improvements, the UN Country Team formally submitted the workplan to the UNDP CSO Division in New York. The four components of the workplan were activities that the UNCT and the UNCSA believed were critical in ensuring that the voices of the poorest of the poor, the marginalized, the excluded and the vulnerable, became parts of the governments development blueprint. The roll-out of HD2010 in the Philippines occurred at a propitious time. The world was looking forward to the MDG+10 Review Summit, and in the Philippines a new administration had just been put in place. The new governments battlecry was combating corruption and ensuring transparency and accountability. Hence, the first activity under HD2010 was meant to influence the crafting of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2010-2016, the development blueprint of President Benigno S. Aquino IIIs government. In the past, the PDP process was left almost entirely in the hands of the government economic and development planners. HD2010 wanted to change that, so it pushed for a more participatory approach to the process, believing that true development must recognize the real needs of the beneficiaries. The UNCSA and other CSO groups consulted with one another on developing a CSO version of the PDP, making clear recommendations for both the Executive and the legislature. The CSO recommendations were put together in a publication titled Citizens Roadmap for Poverty Reduction and Achieving the MDGs: Recommendations for the 2010-2016 Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan.

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The Caucus of Development NGO Networks (Code-NGO), which had previously produced a similar publication, and Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) partnered up and led the implementation of the project. The strength of the Citizens Roadmap was in rallying the Executive branch of Philippine government, having been able to successfully lobby with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Budget and Management for the inclusion of asset reform measures, clearer targeting, climate-sensitive planning and good governance into the PDP. The legislative arena required a major effort. Meanwhile, NEDA was preparing the official 2010 National MDG Report, which was a requirement of the MDG+10 Review Summit. The HD2010 planners thought that it was imperative to have an MDG report that mirrored the conditions on the ground as seen through the eyes of those who experienced the worst forms of poverty and inequality. Hence was born the second component of the HD2010 workplan the Citizens MDG Report, which was a shadow report to the NEDA report. Social Watch Philippines (SWP), which had produced two previous MDG reports, was unanimously chosen to lead this initiative. The Citizens MDG Report specifically recommended that SWP include special chapters on women, children, Moros and indigenous peoples sectors which had been experiencing the worst forms of poverty in the country. SWP added a component on Financing of the MDGs. The Report titled Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report included several recommendations for accelerating the achievement of the MDGs. Through lobbying efforts and media advocacy, SWP and its partners were able to get firm commitments from the legislature to address the issues that the Report highlighted. On the day the Report was launched, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Lorenzo Taada III delivered a privilege speech on the Peoples Participation in the Budget Process bill, one of the Reports recommendations. The bill has been sponsored by Senator Teofisto Guingona Jr. in the Senate. The PDP also included some of the Reports recommendations. SWP requested the President to use the Report as reference for his speech at the MDG+10 Review Summit, and called on the Chief Executive to come out with an MDG Breakthrough Plan. In parallel to these upstream policy advocacy, the HD2010 workplan ensured that delivery of the services at the local level was likewise promoted with citizens active participation in the process. Hence, the third HD2010 component: the development of a practical, easy-to-replicate citizen monitoring tool that would be useful to both the citizens and the local government. A number of UNCSA members signified an intention to lead this particular initiative. Each of them was asked to prepare a concept note. In the end, the project was awarded to Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM). A mapping of the existing monitoring tools revealed that the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS), a household survey that maps poverty and MDG indicators, was the most practical tool for monitoring MDG service delivery. PRRM added value to the CBMS by infusing disaster-risk reduction and climate change adaptation components by constituting communities as parts of the vulnerability assessment process. Finally, the HD2010 workplan recognized that a crucial demographic had to be engaged the youth, who comprise half of the population. After all, they would be the ultimate beneficiaries of the MDGs. Therefore, a youth-focused high-profile event was staged leading up to the MDG Review Summit, and Young Public Servants, the youngest member of UNCSA, was tasked to develop a project that would

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entice the youth to become involved in MDG advocacy and in monitoring local basic service delivery. Thus was born the MyStreet concert, whose minimal budget did not prevent the holding of a hugely successful project. As was to be expected, operationalizing HD2010 was no walk in the park. Bringing together CSOs coming from different backgrounds, advocacies and political leanings was perhaps the most difficult hurdle. The leadership of the CSAC played a crucial and important role in making sure that as many groups were involved in the process and that the activities were implemented according to plan. An HD2010 coordinator who worked part of the time with the CSAC and part of the time with the UN proved to be an effective bridge between the UN and the CSAC. The leadership of the UN Country Team was also crucial. The UN played its role as an honest broker and was able to get the CSO groups to work together. It was even able to bring the government into the table. The succeeding pages recount the successes and challenges experienced in operationalizing Platform HD2010 in the Philippines. It was no easy journey, but it was a fruitful one. There can be no greater reward than being able to show citizens that they have a voice, that they can influence public policy and planning, and that they are a part of the development process. The Millennium Campaign is proud to have been part of that process. We wish to thank the MDG Achievement Fund and the UNDP CSO Division for this great enterprise. The support of the UN Country Team in the Philippines, and the ceaseless effort shown by the UNCSA and other CSO groups made the HD2010 in the Philippines a veritable success. We hope that the four stories that we are sharing in the next pages will inspire advocates to follow suit and join us in our effort to improve the life of every citizen by giving him/her a voice in the development process as a stakeholder.

MINAR PIMPLE Regional Director for Asia & the Pacific UN Millennium Campaign

Since its definition in the 1990s, as a process of enlarging peoples choices, human development has focused attention on the goals of development, and thus a precursor to the Millennium Development Goals.

- Platform HD2010

Amplifying Citizens Voices in Development Planning

Name of Project : Citizens Roadmap for Poverty Reduction and Achieving the MDGs Implementing Partners : Code-NGO and Freedom from Debt Coalition Target Beneficiaries : Farmers, urban poor, IPs, womens groups, laborers Project Objective : Push for a participatory approach in the crafting of the Philippine Development Plan 2010-2016, and ensure the inclusion of reforms that benefit the poorest of the poor

Lessons Learned
(1) When dealing with Government, CSOs must be persistent, write letters, request meetings, issue press releases and otherwise making their existence felt. Engaging the Government in discussions requires a combination of direct communication, community mobilization, media advocacy and lots of lobbying work. (2) It helps to have allies who are key influencers and can help promote ones objective. Here the UNs role as broker is critical. The UN is well placed to bring together individuals and organizations which would not ordinarily work together. These include CSOs with different advocacies and political inclinations. Likewise, the UN can be the bridge between the CSOs and the Government. (3) Position papers are important in dialogues with the Government. Written advocacies lend force and legitimacy to arguments. The Citizens Roadmap is a compilation of the CSOs written advocacies. (4) A core monitoring group is an effective tool for successful advocacy. The participation of numerous dedicated CSOs made the Roadmap core monitoring group a potent policy-influencing entity. Great care must be made in ensuring that the sectors of Philippine society are well-represented so that the lobbying effort is not concentrated on particular advocacies only. (5) Policy advocacy does not end with getting reforms included in the Executive or legislative plan. A community of watchdogs must be established to ensure that the new PDP is implemented and that its benefits reach the intended beneficiaries.

ablo Rosales, 52, has been fishing since he was eight years old. It took him and his fellow-fisherfolk two to three hours and a journey of up to one kilometer into the ocean to return home with a good catch. That was in the 70s. Today, it takes two days and up to 15 kilometers of sailing before fishermen can catch fish. Oftentimes, they return with very little catch. Sometimes there is no catch at all. The fishery sector has for a long time been confronted by continually declining fish catch. The causes are unregulated fishing and ecologically damaging fishing practices. Add to this the proliferation of commercial fishing equipment, which fish in foreshore waters, and the small fishers, which rely on the waters for their livelihood often have nothing left to catch and are forced to go to deep water to find fish. Thanks to HD2010, the economic planners of the newly installed administration of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III have agreed to include asset reform among the priorities of the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) for the period 2010-2016. Chief among these is the completion of the delineation of municipal waters, which has been the object of intense lobbying by civil society organizations (CSOs). Asset reform may not rank high in the list of Government priorities, but for flesh-and-blood people like Pablo Rosales, it is everything. Because they live a virtually hand-to-mouth existence, Pablo and other fishermen can think only of the short term. The delineation of municipal waters and the moratorium on the approval of foreshore leasing arrangements will enable the small fishers to have preferential access to waters within their localities. Pablo was not able to send his five children to school but hopes that with strict implementation of municipal-waters delineation in the PDP, he can start making long-term plans for himself and his family. I want to send my grandchildren to college. I also want to improve our home, he said.

Amplifying citizens voices The municipal-waters delineation was just one of the recommendations the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (Code-NGO), Freedom from Debt Coalition, and their CSO partners successfully pushed in the publication, Citizens Roadmap for Poverty Reduction and Achieving the MDGs: Recommendations for the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan 2010-2016. HD2010 came to the Philippines at a propitious time. The country had just welcomed a new administration. With the entry of the new administration came the drafting of a new development plan. Code-NGO and FDC wasted no time bringing together CSOs representing varied sectors in order to come up with a CSO version of the nascent PDP, the new administrations development blueprint. Roundtable discussions and local, regional and national consultations among various sectors of Philippine society, especially those experiencing the worst forms of poverty and social exclusion, were conducted. The UN played a key role in the process, providing technical inputs, especially in policy areas where there was no CSO representation, such as HIV/AIDS treatment, education and health. Through successful lobbying and hard work, the group was able to influence the PDP drafting process. Aside from delineation of municipal fishing waters, the new PDP now includes the establishment of ancestral domains for the indigenous peoples and socialized housing for the urban poor. Stronger links between social protection programs, asset reform and livelihood and employment have been established. The concerns of small fishers and farmers have been addressed. There is now a greater consciousness of climate change and environmental sustainability. Furthermore, the recommendation for a more purposeful assessment of corruption during the period of the Arroyo administration (20012010) was accepted. Proposals on these policy issues were missing from the initial PDP drafts. The UN as broker Being well placed to play a mediator role, the UN was able to bring Code-NGO and FDC to work together. Absent the UN, the two entities would not have worked together. In the past, the drafting of the PDP was left in the hands of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the governments socio-economic planning agency. In the beginning, the CSOs found themselves on the sidelines, with not all PDP planning committees having NGO representation. They werent even able to get advance copies of the PDP draft. Here the UN once again played a key role. The final stage of the drafting of the Roadmap involved a tripartite consultation. Code-NGO and FDC wanted the Government and the UN and development partners to look jointly at the Roadmap and provide final inputs before it was finalized for publication. The Resident Coordinator was a co-signatory in the invitations that were sent out for the tripartite conference. This strategy proved beneficial. The conference was attended by Government agencies, development partners and heads of agencies of the UN. The conference further refined the contents of the Roadmap, introducing clarifications and tying loose ends, in the process strengthening the document. When the Report was officially launched, the UN once again wore its broker hat and became instrumental in bringing together different CSOs, and the Government. The support and presence of the Resident Coordinator in the Roadmaps events was a critical factor in attracting high-level Government participation. The real test begins With the publication in place, the real challenge came with getting the Government to accept the Roadmaps recommendations and including them in the PDP.

After a steady barrage of requests for meetings, media releases and press conferences, the Director-General of NEDA agreed to meet a delegation from the CSOs. The NEDA chief agreed to let CSOs input their comments into the PDP and to consider the recommendations of the Roadmap. The meeting with the head of the nations economic and social planning agency opened the doors to the offices of the Secretary of Social Welfare and Development, and the Secretary of Budget and Management. That development represented a profound change as far as the drafting and implementation of Philippine economic and social policies were concerned.

Hitherto government agencies had considered policymaking and policy implementation as their exclusive domain. After the Citizens Roadmap experience, ordinary citizens like Pablo Rosales now can, through their civil society organizations, influence government planning and operations. The Citizens Roadmap experience has been a game-changer. In the past, ordinary people did not feel that they had a role in development planning. They did not have a voice. With the success of the Citizens Roadmap, they have been given the voice and the power to become part of the development planning process. Now they can dream of a life better than that which they have known up to now, said Minar Pimple, UN Millennium Campaign regional director for Asia and the Pacific. The Citizens Roadmap publication included many more key-issue recommendations that were left out in the final PDP. The UN, with its mandate of working with and alongside the government, did not intervene in the lobbying process. The CSO groups left had to push their individual advocacies. Little wonder that asset reform became a feature of the new PDP, it being a major advocacy of Code-NGO. Thus, one of the biggest lessons learned in the Roadmap process is ensuring that all sectors of society and all elements of socio-economic planning are represented when lobbying with Government. During dialogues with the Government, it is crucial that every advocacy be pushed forward and defended. Today, more and more CSOs and their networks have been welcomed into the process, using interventions brought into play by Code-NGO, FDC and other CSO groups. The PDP was released to the public in July 2011. But the CSO group which lobbied for the Citizen Roadmaps inclusion in the PDP, which now calls itself the PDP Advocacy Group, continues to engage the government. Many CSOs have begun to engage the newly constituted Cabinet anti-poverty cluster, providing inputs into the government anti-poverty program and ensuring a participatory approach to the development planning process. Getting the Government to make the delivery of the PDP will be their next task.

With the success of the Citizens Roadmap, (ordinary citizens) have been given a voice and the power to become part of the development planning process. Now they can dream of a life better than that which they have known up to now.

Lessons Learned
(1) Anybody can produce a shadow report. But for the Government to sit up and take notice, the producers of a report have to enjoy credibility and public respect. The credibility of a shadow report is established not only by the reputations and credentials of the people behind the undertaking; they are seen from the quality of the report. (2) Successfully pushing for advocacies such as those contained in the Citizens MDG Report requires a combination of community mobilization, media engagement, public debates and high-profile events. The Report used opportune moments, such as the State of the Nation Address of the President in July 2010 to start drumming up the issue of inclusivity in the development process. The launching of the Report was timed for the global MDG Summit. High-profile events such as these attract elected government officials, particularly members of the legislature. (3) Shadow reports should seek to improve analysis of Government policymaking and performance by using data not used by Government, such as surveys on self-rated poverty. Although they rely on perceptions, such surveys provide a picture of realities on the ground. (4) It will be easier to lobby for bills if position papers are developed. Legislators will then simply have to tweak a position paper a bit and sponsor a bill. (5) Lobbying work should continue even after a bill is passed, to make sure that it gets implemented and reaches the intended beneficiaries.

Winning the War on Poverty

Name of Project : Citizens MDG Report Implementing Partner : Social Watch Philippines Target Beneficiaries : The poorest segments of the Philippine society, particularly the marginalized, the excluded and the vulnerable Project Objective : Magnify the voices of those living in extreme poverty, and inform officials on issues that are not revealed or highlighted in the official MDG Report

s the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Declaration drew near, the United Nations Country Team in the Philippines and the UN Civil Society Assembly felt that nothing much had changed in the preceding ten years. The draft of the official MDG Report showed improvements in many of the Goals, and said that some of the targets were surpassed. The official MDG report did admit that while there had been gains, the MDGs on universal primary education and maternal health seemed unlikely to be met. But UNCSA felt there was more to the numbers than met the eye. Therefore the decision was reached to include in the HD2010 workplan an alternative MDG report that would carefully scrutinize the official statistics and discussed the situations of the poorest segments of Philippine society, viz., women, children, indigenous peoples and Moros. It would be a shadow report to the official 2010 National MDG Report of the Philippines, to be launched just before world leaders met at the UN General Assemblys MDG+10 Review Summit in September 2010. The authors of the Citizens MDG Report expressed the Reports rationale in these terms: Government must account for why the number of food-poor Filipinos grew to 12.2 million from 10.1 million five years ago, when all the time the economy continued to grow. We need to know why 5.2 million children are out of school and 1.4 million Filipino children drop out of elementary and secondary school every year. We have to find out why the maternal mortality ratio in this country is one of the highest in Asia: 162 per 100,000 live births in 2006. Through the peoples lens Inclusiveness would be the hallmark of the Report. Our report must give credibility to the voices of those living in extreme poverty. It should help promote citizen participation in determining policy decisions and national strategies for the achievement of the MDGs and higher national aspirations, said Social Watch Philippines (SWP), the lead CSO for the production of the Report. The Citizens MDG Report did not simply mirror the National

MDG Report. It included special chapters on women, children and the Bangsamoro in Mindanao. The original plan was to include a chapter on indigenous people (IP), but because of the exigency of a deadline the September MDG Summit, in this case up-to-date data on the IPs did not come on time. Thus, the Report had to be printed without a chapter on the IPs. The Report highlighted the risk the MDGs faced with inadequate funding. Former National Treasurer and SWP lead convenor Prof. Leonor Briones wrote a comprehensive article on MDG financing. This was accompanied by a paper on a participatory approach in the budget process, which became the Peoples Participation in the Budget Process bill filed by Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Lorenzo Taada III. Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report was positively received by the legislature. At a ceremony at the House of Representatives on September 15, 2010, the president of the Lower House and his Senate counterpart committed themselves to working together for the approval of legislation intended to accelerate achievement of the MDGs. Commitments made jointly by the heads of the two houses of Congress are infrequent occurrences.

Our report must give credibility to the voices of those living in extreme poverty. It should help promote citizen participation in determining policy decisions and national strategies for the achievement of the MDGs.

Speaker Feliciano M. Belmonte Jr., whose 283 colleagues represent the local government units (LGUs), said that he was alarmed by the Reports findings. The realization of the MDGs is a commitment we will not neglect. This chamber will devote its work in the next three years to ensure that our national efforts will conform with, if not exceed, the benchmarks of this movement. The commitment to fulfill the MDGs will underlie our decisions when we craft the annual budget, when we review laws on taxation and guidelines on utilization of development assistance, when we agree to fund public programs, actions and projects and when we scrutinize every piece of proposed legislation, the Speaker said. Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, whose colleagues are elected nationally, said that the Philippines was racing against time and that it needed, therefore, to get its act together to pull the country out of its economic and social quagmire and save as many Filipino lives as possible. Getting through to the peoples representatives In other countries, shadow reports have not succeeded in getting the legislators to take a second look. Often, these shadow reports have been looked at as propaganda pieces containing partisan rantings, not recommendations for true reforms. Having done two previous shadow reports, SWP enjoys credibility with the Government. NEDA uses SWPs shadow reports as reference material. Some government officials have characterized SWP shadow reports as wake-up calls for government planners. Credit for this has to go to SWPs track record of balanced and well-researched reporting. SWP shadow reports use the data that NEDA uses,

SWP lead convenor Prof. Leonor Briones and co-convenor Isagani Serrano turn over the Citizens MDG Report to Senate president Juan Ponce-Enrile and House of Representatives Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. (@MIS-PRIB/Tobias Engay)

but analyzes situations with a peoples lens. The different sectors of society are given a voice in the analysis of data and in the making of recommendations. SWP also considers self-rated poverty surveys by credible market survey firms because they provide a picture of the realities on the ground. This combination has lent credibility to SWP reports. That is just one side of the coin. SWP has been successful in its policy advocacies because it recognizes the crucial role of the media. All its advocacy initiatives have had strong media and communications components. And because of the high-profile nature of the HD2010 project developed as a preMDG Summit activity the UN infused the Report with high-profile components. The Citizens MDG Report was made an integral component of the program for the global Stand Up campaign, which led up to the MDG+10 Review Summit. A series of high-profile advocacy events had been lined up. In July 2010, when the newly elected President delivered his State of the Nation Address, the Campaign encouraged SWP to start drumming up the issue of inclusiveness in national development planning. SWP and the Millennium Campaign collaborated on a State of the MDGs Address. As a lead-up to the MDG Review Summit, the Millennium Campaign spearheaded an MDG Week at the House of Representatives. It was then that the Citizens MDG Report was launched. On the same day that the Report was launched, Deputy Speaker Taada delivered a privilege speech on the Peoples Participation in the Budget Process Bill and on pushing legislation that helped accelerate MDG achievement. The Stand Up campaign and the Citizens MDG Report were packaged into one high-profile series of activities that included mobilizations all over the country and policy-advocacy moments within the halls of the Congress of the Philippines, which created maximum media mileage and a lot of buzz. As every politician will attest, pressure from the people is needed for politicians to act. Pressure comes from community mobilizations and lots of media exposure. It was no surprise that for the first

time, the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives were both present at a CSO-led event. But credibility and lots of buzz are not sufficient. Direct lobbying work needs to be done. According to Deputy Speaker Taada, It is always good practice to have a policy paper ready so that legislators do not have to spend a great deal of time researching and analyzing issues. SWP made sure that the Citizens MDG Report was accompanied by a policy paper on the Budget Process Bill. Having found an ally in the Lower House, you Farmer Erning Ofracio calls on the President to deliver on the MDGs, during have to find an ally at the Sen- the State of the MDGs Address, in response to the Presidents State of the ate. If you want to speed up the Nation Address. With him are the Reports writers, Jolly Lais, Leonor Briones process of enacting a bill, have and Isagani Serrano. a Lower House and an Upper House version, Taada said. The Peoples Participation in the Budget Process Bill has been adopted by Senator Teofisto Guingona Jr. and will shortly be deliberated upon by the Senate. SWP did not stop at that. It wrote letters and knocked on the doors of members of the House of Representatives and asked them to use the Reports recommendations in their legislative activities. It also wrote to the President and prodded him to use the Reports findings and recommendations in the development of an MDG Breakthrough Plan, which was to be the subject of his MDG Summit speech at the UN General Assembly. Today, many legislators use the Report as reference material in their public discourses and in debates. The Philippine Development Plan also adopted some of the Reports recommendations. But for SWP work is not done. It will pursue its mandate of being social watchers. A useful governance tool A report such as the Citizens MDG Report is a very useful governance tool. There are two reasons for this. One is that it informs the citizenry as to what the Government is not doing right or is withholding from the public. The other reason for the usefulness of the Citizens MDG Report is that it keeps the Government honest and efficient, considering that a sector of society is tracking the directions of its economic and social policies and will inform the public when policymaking goes awry and becomes inefficient. Thus, a report like the Citizens MDG Report is a three-party affair, with each party benefiting from the arrangement. The Government benefits because it will be pressured to observe priorities and stay honest; the citizenry benefits because their entitlements will be protected and enhanced; and civil society because it will experience the satisfaction that comes from striving to promote good governance.

Lessons Learned
(1) Getting the local government units (LGUs) buy-in and support is crucial in introducing a new project, especially one that an LGU is not familiar with. The LGU has to understand the clear benefits of the project. One has to bear in mind not only the social implications of a project, but also its political implications. Be ready to answer social questions such as: What is the added value of this project to my current projects? and political questions such as: Will this make me win the next election? (2) Both citizens and LGUs must have ownership of the MDGs. Before starting an MDG project, make sure that both the citizens and the LGU understand that the MDGs are their goals, and not goals set by far-flung economic/ development planners detached from the realities on the ground. They must understand the connection of the MDGs to their own local development. (3) The community should be engaged. A community with a strong civil society in place is a must. It can then be mobilized to act on the interests of the MDGs, which are ultimately its own goals. (4) There should be active involvement of stakeholders from the start of monitoring to the planning and the implementation of development programs for the MDGs. Involvement at every step of the process will help create a sense of ownership of the MDGs and empower community members to act. When they see that their opinions are valued and become part of the development plan, community members participate and cooperate more in development planning.

Engaging Local Governments, Empowering Communities

Name of Project : Citizen Monitoring Tool Implementing Partner : Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement Target Beneficiaries : Brgy. Tabing Ilog, Licab, Nueva Ecija and San Miguel Island, Tabaco, Albay Project Objective : Develop a practical, easy-to-replicate MDG monitoring tool responsive to the needs of the community

or a long time, residents of Barangay Tabing Ilog in Licab, a fourth-class municipality in Nueva Ecija not far from Metro Manila, thought they would never be able to experience having sanitary toilet facilities. But thanks to a monitoring tool made possible by an HD2010 project, the local leadership is now able to map where services are most needed in Licab. The government of Licab immediately provided Brgy. Tabing Ilog households with access to sanitary toilet facilities. The tool is nothing new. After a mapping exercise of the existing MDG monitoring tools used in the country, the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) the lead implementing CSO for the citizen monitoring tool component of HD2010 together with its CSO partners, concluded that the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) was still the most comprehensive and practical tool for mapping and measuring MDG progress at the local level. Developed by the La Salle Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies, the CBMS is a survey of households that measures very specific poverty indicators like hunger, lack of education and access to sanitation. At least ten provinces have already adopted the CBMS as a tool for monitoring poverty and as a basis for development planning. In searching for the most practical yet comprehensive citizen monitoring tool, PRRM decided that adding one more to the many existing monitoring tools would leave the citizens and local governments confused. We do not need to re-invent the wheel and develop an entirely new monitoring tool when the tool we already have is working, said PRRM advocacy and development cooperation director Rebecca Malay, who has also been recently elected as the co-convenor of the UN Civil Society Assembly (UNCSA). An analysis of the CBMS showed that it lacked indicators for MDG #7 (ensure environmental sustainability). Thus, the PRRM integrated into the CBMS vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessment capability for Community Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR).

Two communities, one resolve The PRRM conducted the CBMS and the CDRR in two communities Tabing Ilog in Licab, Nueva Ecija, and San Miguel Island (covering five barangays) in Tabaco City. The pilot communities had very distinct personalities. Licab had never heard of CBMS or the MDGs. Tabaco City, on the other hand, had already aligned its development plan with the MDGs but lacked disaster-proofing capability. The common denominator? Both had government officials who were very supportive and were willing to learn and explore areas for improving services to the people.

Lessons Learned
(5) People think visually. With a digitized risk map, citizens are able to see the immediate concrete results of their work. The LGUs in turn will appreciate a project more because they can immediately see its practicality.

In preparation for the introduction of the enhanced CBMS tool, PRRM thoroughly oriented officials of the local government units (LGUs) and civil society organizations and individual citizens about the MDGs. With the help of another UNCSA member, Social Watch Philippines, PRRM trained civil society organization members and interested citizens in conducting household interviews for the enhanced CBMS. The CDRR component of the project took up most of the time of PRRM, the local government, civil society organizations, and citizens. PRRM conducted disaster-risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) workshops and taught the participants disaster preparedness. Together, these organizations mapped the communities for areas vulnerable to disasters and brainstormed on actions to be taken in case of a disaster.

The Tabing Ilog digitized risk map developed by the community members

Tabaco City Mayor Krisel Luistro encourages her barangay captains to invest more in MDG programs and projects (@PRRM/Nadja Ginete).

Tabing Ilog in Licab was particularly prone to flooding. Sitting at the foot of the Mayon Volcano, San Miguel Island was vulnerable to eruptions, tsunamis and flash floods. Through the CDRR workshops and discussions, PRRM and stakeholders came up with measures for disaster preparedness, such as an early warning system and plans for evacuation. In Tabaco City, the government now has an information board that gives advisories during disasters. The workshop series produced a digitized risk map that is a visual representation of the communitys vulnerable areas, resources and landmarks. The participants helped a vector graphics editor identify the areas. The maps are now being used by the local governments to prepare for disasters and evacuation. Real impact The CBMS gave the MDG monitoring players a clear picture of what problems needed to be worked on and provided inputs for the development of the areas. In Tabaco City, the CBMS found that health services were concentrated in mainland Tabaco. The local government remedied this by forming health clusters and making sure a cluster was assigned to take care of certain areas, especially the islands. A birthing facility was constructed in San Miguel Island so that mothers no longer had to go to the mainland to deliver their babies. An immediate strength of CBMS is the convincing power of its scientific and visual presentation of data. Darwin Alonzo, Nueva Ecija community organizer and project coordinator, attests to this. We know there are people in the community who do not have access to clean toilets, but we do not know the extent of the problem, he said. Through the CBMS, we were able to find out how many these people were. The CBMS spot maps clearly illustrate the extent of the problem and are more convincing than words. And because the CBMS is scientific, it spurs people, especially local government officials, to take action. The facts are there, Alonzo said firmly. These are not assumed or made up. Thus, government will be more inclined to act.

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Through CDRR, Licabs and Tabacos residents are now equipped with knowledge and skills to deal with potential disasters. Because of their monitoring of MDG implementation in their communities, the citizens develop a sense of ownership of the MDGs. They become involved with local development planning based on the results of the CBMS and CDRR. The MDG monitoring project resulted in the forging of stronger partnerships between the local government and its citizens, and between the local government and PRRM. Through these stronger relationships, they now work more effectively together in order to meet the MDG targets. LGU-CSO partnership What made the project in both Licab and Tabaco City a success? PRRM identified two ingredients 1) LGU openness to the MDGs and 2) a strong, active civil society. PRRM has now been empowering rural communities in the Philippines for more than two decades, and its community organizers have built up strong community bases in different areas, including Licab and Tabaco. In these communities, peoples organizations, like farmers organizations and youth organizations, are active. It is easy to mobilize them if they are already organized, Malay pointed out. No need to start from scratch. In the MDG monitoring all the organizations participated. LGU cooperation is crucial. The local government has to be made to understand the importance of the MDGs, Raul Roi Borejon, PRRM Albay area manager, said. If they do not understand the MDGs, they will not prioritize programs that the people need. They can build waiting sheds or gyms somewhere, but these do not address the citizens more pressing needs. A strong partnership between the LGU and civil society is key to successful MDG monitoring and results-based development planning. Discussion and coordination among all the stakeholders helped in producing a suitable development plan for the barangay, Alonzo concluded.
Community members and leaders develop the disaster map for Licab, which was used as basis for the digitized risk map (@PRRM/Nadja Ginete).

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A strong partnership between the local government unit and civil society is key to successful MDG monitoring and results-based development planning.

Lessons Learned
(1) Use media that work well with your target audience. In this case, the media were music and the Web. (2) Capitalize on the appeal of celebrities. Contrary to the belief that celebrity endorsements are expensive, for a good cause celebrities will donate their talent and time. Just make sure to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve and how. Celebrities not only draw crowds; they also draw media. With celebrities in your event comes extensive media coverage. (3) Intersperse advocacy messages through creative ways, such as video snippets, performances from excluded groups, film clips and real-life stories showing real people. (4) Awareness-raising activities should not end with being able to inspire your audience. At the end of the activity, offer something concrete as a call to action. (5) For an activity to last, have something concrete to remind participants by. Popularizing the Stand Up song by giving it a Filipino sound and mass appeal and having it constantly played on a popular radio or MTV channel is a constant call to action. (6) Involve your target demographic in the preparations by giving them important roles and responsibilities. Youth volunteers were assigned important responsibilities, such as documentation through photographs, translating the Stand Up song in Tagalog, production of video snippets, coordination with partners and being part of the creative team.

Reaching Out, Rallying the Youth

Name of Project : MyStreet Project Implementing Partner : Young Public Servants Partners : Makati City Government, Ayala Land, Genesis Artists Target Beneficiaries : 15-25 age group; students and young professionals Project Objective : Promote youth monitoring of MDGs

program like Platform HD2010, to be successful, must be able to embrace a crucial demographic. Most of the population of a typical developing country consists of people 25 years old and younger. In the Philippines the percentage is around 50. Not only does the youth comprise the biggest chunk of a countrys population; they also play a big role in the future of their own country. There was a two-part rationale for getting the millions of young Filipinos involved in the HD2010 project. One part was to promote the concept of youth monitoring of implementation of the MDGs. This was made possible by injecting advocacy pieces through a concert called MyStreet, which is the name of a Website that encourages youth reporting of MDG incidents in their communities. The other part of the rationale was to get young people interested in the development planning of their local government units (LGUs). The HD2010 partners hoped that the youths interest in the local progress of the MDGs would kindle an interest in the entire local development planning process. But getting the youth to sit down and listen to anything that had to do with development planning or advocacy was a challenge. The challenge was to be able to get their attention, attract them to come to a gathering, a party that, without their awareness, floods them with advocacy messages, and calls them to action. Getting the message out The formula included choosing a medium that worked best with the target demographic. In this case, music and the Internet. How to integrate the HD2010 messages that came out in the three other projects inclusivity and citizen monitoring was the next challenge. This challenge was met by creative performances from the sectors experiencing the worst poverty in the country women, children, indigenous peoples (IP) and Muslim Mindanaoans, supported by the presence of popular bands to add to the mass appeal. PeTune Band, an IP group, came all the way from their base in the Cordillera mountains of northern Luzon to share their music

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Lessons Learned
(7) Never make lack of funds deter you from pulling off an excellent project. There will always be people and organizations willing to lend their time, expertise, connections, talent and skills for a good cause.

Genesis Entertainment artists perform the Filipino version of the Stand Up song (@UNMC/Eji Eustaquio)

with the audience. As they mesmerized the audience with their musical skills using indigenous instruments, a video showing IP issues kept playing in the background. Musicians representing other extreme-poverty groups were showcased. The ZOTO Band, composed of children who used to be child laborers, represented the plight of children in slum areas. A story of one of the children was shared before they were called on-stage. An all-girls band singing songs on violence against women, maternal health and other women issues showed where women were most vulnerable. Finally, a group of Muslim musicians showcased the indigenous Mindanaoan music. As each of these special performances was taking place, playing at the background were videos, specially put together by a group of young animators on the issues facing the four groups of people experiencing extreme poverty in the Philippines. Coming together for a cause The concert was high-profile in two senses. First, it featured some of the brightest young talents in the land, who generously donated their time and talent to the event. The UNs celebrity spokespersons World Food Programme National Ambassador Against Hunger KC Concepcion and UNICEF Child Rights Supporter Bianca Gonzalez provided extra traction, both in terms of media mileage and crowd draw. Their respective advocacies infused the inspiration into the audience. The UN Country Team, which rallied all the agencies to work together to make the concert a success, was instrumental in getting both spokespersons to grace the concert. The concerts organizers, Young Public Servants, used their connections to get the Genesis Artists to send its young singers Karylle, Gab and Paolo Valenciano, Robin Nievera, Isabella Gonzalez, Zia Quizon and Duncan Ramos to the concert. It was at the concert that the Philippines Stand Up song, Isang Himig (One Voice), was introduced to the world. The music originally performed by African singers for the global Stand Up

Bianca Gonzalez, UNICEF Child Rights Supporter, talks about universal primary education as en entitlement of every child (@Tagline).

KC Concepcion, World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador, talks about the state of hunger in the country (@ UNMC/Eji Eustaquio)

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Over 5,000 youth participate in the MyStreet concert (@UNMC/ Eji Eustaquio)

campaign was re-written in Tagalog by a student of Filipino language, Jaime Angelo Reyes, 20. The song was later recorded and produced by Genesis Artists. So inspired was Genesis Artists that it went beyond producing the song, and produced an MTV of it. The music video launched during the concert continues to enjoy exposure on Myx, the biggest music channel in the Philippines. The concert was high-profile also because of the calibers of its major benefactors. One was the government of Makati City, which is said to be the financial capital of the Philippines. Makati City generously provided the security, ambulances, tents and permits and its personnel ensured the seamless execution of the concert. To help promote the concert, the city council issued a memorandum to its youth arm, the Sangguniang Kabataan, to attend the concert, and included a special page on the concert in the official Makati City Website. Another high-profile benefactor was the nations premier real estate development company, Ayala Land Corporation, which donated the use of busy Glorietta Park for the occasion and took care of additional security, traffic rerouting, publicity and promotions. The concert showed that for a sufficiently well-publicized cause that is good for the community, young Filipinos will come together. It also showed that the youth can be made to understand the essence of stakeholdership and to accept the responsibilities that go with having a stake in a project. Call to action Getting the youth to come, sit up and listen is not enough. Awareness-raising activities often succeed in inspiring participants. But what happens when the inspiration dies down? Launched at the concert was the MyStreet website, an online tool that allows users to report on and track delivery of MDGs. The website is an actual and accurate online map that citizens can

ZOTO Band, a youth band from Tondo, Manila, expresses the groups struggles and hopes in life through music (@ Tagline).

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pin, tag and post reports on. The audience was asked to enlist and become their streets watchdogs by constantly reporting MDG issues that they see on their streets, or on the streets which they regularly pass. After watching the concert, Daryl Alfred Tadique, 22, one of an estimated 5,000 young and men and women who flocked to Makati Citys Glorietta Park to attend the concert, vowed to make a contribution to MDG advocacy by using his organization, the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP), to spread awareness of the MDGs and getting the BSP to engage in such activities as tree-planting, volunteering and tutorial sessions. Daryl currently maintains two Facebook accounts devoted to stories on the MDGs and on citizen monitoring. He regularly does volunteer work with the UN Millennium Campaign office. His latest volunteer work was the launching of Tingog 2015 in Tabaco City, an SMS citizen feedback system that allows ordinary citizens to send feedback on MDG service delivery in their locality directly to their local governments.

Eji Eustaquio, 19, and Marti Juan, 20, who both volunteered to take the photos of the concert (some of which are shown in these pages) maintain their love for photography but focus on MDG issues as their contribution to MDG monitoring. Pauline Sanchez, 25, was a grade school teacher at a private school when she watched the concert. So inspired was she that she wanted to do something that would ensure that the MDGs reached the poorest of the poor. She packed her teachers bag and joined the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, where she is busy promoting the principles of participatory democracy, transparency and accountability and the rule of law. Meanwhile, Young Public Servants has successfully earned the buy-in and support of the Philippine National Police and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, which now use the MyStreet portal as a necessary resource for mapping MDG services. Partnerships, a necessary tool The success of the MyStreet concert didnt just happen. It was the result of months of brainstorming, coordination work, negotiations and lots of preparatory work. Much of that work consisted of the forging of partnerships. Truly, without the support shown by the UN Country Team in rallying the UN agencies to send their ambassadors, the partnership with the City of Makati, with private corporate entities like companies and foundations and with individuals and youth volunteers, the concert would not have achieved the success that it did. The partnerships made up the deficits in financial, technical and human resources. The MyStreet concert can be replicated in provincial cities with the same degree of success, but only if the provincial projects are attended by the same concern for partnerships, attention to detail and passion and commitment that attended the Glorietta Park event.

For a sufficiently well-publicized cause that is good for the community, young Filipinos will come together and understand the essence of stakeholdership and to accept the responsibilities that go with having a stake in a project.

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ANNEX
Members of the UN Civil Society Assembly
1 Action for Economic Reforms (AER) 2 Agri-Aqua Development Coalition (AADC) Mindanao 3 Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) 4 Association of Foundations (AF) 5 Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP) 6 Consortium for the Advancement of Peoples Participation in Sustainable Integrated Area Development (CAPP-SIAD) 7 CEDAW Watch 8 Center for Community Transformation (CCT) 9 Civil Society Counterpart Council for Sustainable Development (CSCCSD) 10 Civil Society Network for Education Reforms (E-Net Phil) 11 Civil Society Resource Institute (CSRI) 12 Coalition for Bicol Development (CBD) 13 Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO) 14 Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society Organization (CBCS) 15 Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation 16 Cordillera Network of NGOs and POs (CORDNet) 17 Culion Foundation, Inc. 18 Eastern Visayas Network of Development NGOs (EVNET) 19 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance, Philippines (FCAP) 20 Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade) 21 Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP) 22 Federation of Free Workers (FFW) 23 Foundation for Sustainable Societies, Inc. (FSSI) 24 Foundation for the Philippine Environment (FPE) 25 Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) 26 Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute (GZO-PI) 27 Generation Peace Network (GenPeace) 28 Green Convergence 29 Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) 30 Haribon 31 Health Action Information Network (HAIN) 32 Human Development Network (HDN) 33 International Center for Innovation, Transformation and Excellence in Governance (INCITEGov) 34 Institute for Political and Electoral Reform (IPER) 35 Institute of Popular Democracy (IPD) 36 Koalisyon ng Katutubong Samahan ng Pilipinas (KASAPI) 37 League of Corporate Foundations (LCF) 38 Medical Action Group (MAG) 39 Mindanao Coalition of Development NGO Networks (MinCODE) 40 Miriam - P.E.A.C.E. (Public Education & Awareness Campaign for the Environment) 41 NAPC - Basic Sectors 42 National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO) 43 National Council for Social Development (NCSD) 44 NGOs for Fisheries Reform (NFR) 45 Network Opposed to Genetically Modified Organisms (NO2GMOs) 46 Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) 47 Pambansang Koalisyon ng mga Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) 48 Partnership for Clean Air, Inc. (PCA) 49 Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA) 50 Pambansang Kalipunan Ng Mga Manggagawang Impormal Sa Pilipinas (PATAMABA), Inc. 51 Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF) 52 Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) 53 Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) 54 Philippine Childrens Ministries Network Inc. (PCMN) 55 Philippine Legislators Committee for Population and Development (PLCPD) 56 Philippine Network of Rural Development Institutes (PhilNet-RDI, Inc) 57 Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health, and Welfare (PNGOC) 58 Philippine NGO Support Program, Inc. (PHANSuP) 59 Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA) 60 Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) 61 PILIPINA 62 Social Watch Philippines 63 Sulong CARHRIHL 64 Sustainability Watch 65 Task Force Participatory Local Governance (TF-PLG) 66 Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) 67 Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN) 68 Urban Poor Alliance (UP ALL) 69 Visayan Forum Foundation 70 Western Visayas Network of Social Development NGOs (WEVnet) 71 Womens Action Network for Development (WAND) 72 Young Public Servants (YPS)

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