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PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
What is Participatory?
 allows or requires you to participate, or join in. -it is
characterized by or involving participation
What is Democracy?
 term "democracy" first appeared in ancient Greek
political and philosophical thought in the city-state
of Athens during classical antiquity. The word comes
from demos, "common people" and kratos, "strength".
What is Participatory Democracy?
 Participatory Democracy is a form of government in
which the citizens themselves have the opportunity to
make decisions about public policy.
 Participatory democracy, like its close relative, direct
democracy, seeks to promote a form of self-determination
or self-rule
The Origin of Participatory Democracy
 Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and
techniques have been at the core of decision-making
processes in a variety of sectors of society and of policy
domains around the world
 Originally associated with this turn have been a strong
critique of liberal and representative democracy, the
corollary idea of a ‘real utopia,’ that is, the necessary
radicalization of democratic practices
•participatory budgeting (PB)
•citizen councils
•public consultations
•neighbourhood councils
•participatory planning
-provides the most accurate and transparent wishes of
the people are able to completely speak their mind and
show opinions.
3. Knowing that Your Votes Matters
-a person's vote is really important to the country as a
whole, which ignites more pride and patriotism.
4. Corruption is Reduced
-Politicians do not have the ability to make decisions
any longer.
Disadvantages of Participatory Democracy
1. It's Simply Impractical
-the sheer fact that it would be nearly impossible to
implement on a large scale.
2. The Minority Has No Say
-in every changes in the society, there is no beneficial
change could happen for people of minority groups.
They will remain minority
3. Not Everyone Has The Skills
-a large majority of population does not have the
education or the skills needed to make major decisions
on how the country is ran.
4. It's About Time
-smallest of changes to be made to the country, would
slow down the entire process and make a change a very
tedious thing.
HUMAN RIGHTS

What are the effects of Advocating Participatory

Democracy? WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
 It strives to create opportunities for all members of a  Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that
population to make meaningful contributions to belong to every person in the world, from birth until
decision-making. death. 
 It enhances governance, citizens’ empowerment, and  These values are defined and protected by law.
the quality of democracy, creating a virtuous cycle to
improve the well-being of the poor. Why Human Rights is Important?
 To live their life
 It conceived and designed as a way for citizens’ views  Express Themselves
and input to have some influence on otherwise political
 What kind of Government to support.
and bureaucratic decision-making processes.
 Rights for education, housing and basic needs.
Advantages of Advocating Participatory Democracy
Types of Rights
1. Increase Political Involvement
 Natural Rights:
-puts all of the power in the hands of people, which
 Faith in natural rights is strongly expressed by
causes more people to come out and vote as well as
several scholars
educating themselves
 Before they came to live in society and state, they used
to live in a state of nature.
Natural Rights
2. Truly Represents the People
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• The right to life
• The right to be free
• The right to think independently
• The right to express your beliefs
• The right to be treated equally before the law
 Legal Rights
Legal rights are those rights which are recognized
and enforced by the state. Any violation of any
legal right is punished by law.
Legal Rights are of three types:
 Civil Rights:
 Civil rights are those rights which provide
opportunity to each person to lead a civilized social
life.
 Political Rights:
 Political rights are those rights by virtue of which
citizens get a share in the political process. These
enable them to take an active part in the political
process.
 Economic Rights:
 Economic rights are those rights which provide
economic security to the people. These enable all
citizens to make proper use of their civil and
political rights.
Some Examples:
1. Parental Rights
2. Rights to sign contracts
3. Rights to Medical records
4. Rights for Privacy
The Five Characteristics of Human Rights
 Human rights are universal
 Which means that they apply equally to all people
everywhere in the world, and with no time limit.
Every individual is entitled to enjoy his or her human
rights without distinction of "race" or ethnic
background, colour, sex, sexual orientation,
disability, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, birth or other
status.
 Human rights are inalienable
 This means that you cannot lose them, because they
are linked to the very fact of human existence, they
are inherent to all human beings. In particular
circumstances some – though not all – may be
suspended or restricted.
 Human rights are interconnected or interdependence
 The human rights are interdependent and
interrelated. Each one can contributes to the
realization of a person’s human dignity through the
satisfaction of his or her developmental, physical,
psychological and spiritual needs.
 Human rights are invisible
 Human rights is invisible whether they relate to civil,
cultural, economic, political, or social issues, human
rights are inherent to the dignity of every human
person.
 Human rights are non-discriminatory
 All individuals are equal as human beings and by
virtue of the inherent dignity each human person’s.
no one, therefore ,should suffer discrimination on
the basis of race ,colour, ethnicity, gender, age,
political, or other opinion , national, social,
geographical origin, disability, property, birth or
other status as established by human rights
standards.
 Individual Rights
 enabled citizens to live freely and own property
.
There are 5 Individual Rights:
1. Freedom of speech.
2. Freedom of the press.
3. Freedom of religion.
4. Freedom of assembly.
5. Right to petition the government.
 Civil Rights
 guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal
protection under the law, regardless of race,
religion, or other personal characteristics.
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 Cultural Rights
Examples:  elevated by the notion that only people within that
1. Right to vote particular society can moderate their own culture
2. Right to fair trial
3. Right to government services  Human Rights Articles
4. Right to public education  As Democratic Rights
5. Right to public facilities. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion.
 Political Rights
 allow people to participate in the political process  As Mobility Rights
in order for us to have democracy. Right to travel and return to one’s country,
and the freedom to movement within the country
Examples: National as well as International.
1. Right to vote  As Right to Life, Liberty and the Security
2. Right to get elected Fundamental rights which relate to the right
3. Right to hold public office to physical and personal integrity, consistent with
4. Right to petition human dignity.
5. Right to form political parties  As Rights of Equality
6. Right to criticize Against Discrimination
7. Right to oppose the government  As Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
standards to be observed by the State
 Collective Rights Freedom from detention, torture and other forms of
 also known as group rights, are rights held by a political repression will be meaningless when people
members severally. They have typically been a are hostage to hunger, disease, ignorance and
focus of indigenous peoples and other groups unemployment
whose rights are threatened by an individualistic,  As Workers’ Rights
capitalist system. The prohibition of employment of children,
and the guarantee of minimum wages and other
Examples: support
1. The right to speak one’s native language and  As Aboriginal Rights
educate children in that language. Associated with the rights of indigenous
2. The right to cultural preservation. cultural tribes or communities
3. The rights of indigenous peoples to land and  As Minority Group Right
resources held collectively. Protection of ethnic, linguistic and religious
4. The right to pass land and resources down through minorities
the generations.  As Legal Rights
That constitute due process that can be
 Economic and Social Rights invoked by persons accused.
 Concerned with human basic need – for food,  As Economic Rights
shelter, water and for the means to provide those Pertains to access to resources such as land,
things for oneself. labor, physical,and financial capital that are essential
 Economic and social rights are those human rights for the creation.
that relate to our ability to live in dignity and
participate fully in our society EQUALITY AND EQUITY
Examples:
1. The right to property,  EQUALITY
2. The right to work - which one freely chooses or - equality as the state of being equal in rights,
accepts status and opportunity.
3. The right to a fair wage - a reasonable limitation of
working hours
4. Trade union rights

 EQUITY
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- equity is the fairness or justice in the way the environment.
people are treated.
WHY IS ECOLOGY IS IMPORTANT?
 Social Equity - Ecology enriches our world and is crucial for human well
- provision of varying levels of support- based on being and prosperity. It provides new knowledge of the
specific needs - to achieve greater fairness of interdependence between people and nature that is vital for
treatment and outcomes. food production, maintaining clean air and water, and
sustaining biodiversity in a changing climate.
Aspects of Social Equity:
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY INCLUDING:
EDUCATION 1. Stability of Climate
- they can share, retain and collect knowledge. This 2. Quality of Water
means that knowledge is a collective asset of society and 3. Quality of Air
should be fairly distributed and offer to all members of 4. Quality of Land
society. 5. Biodiversity
JUSTICE 6. Ecosystem Services
- often forfeited when a society has systematically
oppressed and disadvantaged a specific segment of the ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:
population. 1. Australia Bush Fire
ENVIRONMENT 2. Illegal Logging
- both the understanding of the conditions of the 3. Lack of Food and Water
present and the rights of the future on activities that affect
or impact the environment of all social actors. PEACEFUL RECONCILIATION OF CONFLICTS
HEALTH
- the absence of avoidable or remediable differences PEACEFUL - not involving to war or violence.
among groups of people, whether those groups are defined free from disturbance.
socially, economically, demographically or geographically. RECONCILIATION - It is the restoration of
friendly relation.
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY CONFLICT - a serious disagreement or
agreement.
Economic Equity
- the apportionment of resources or goods among the PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS
people is considered fair
AVOIDING
ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY - is when people just ignore or withdraw from the
conflict.
“ECOLOGICAL” = “SUSTAINABILITY” COMPETING
- is used by people who go into a conflict planning to
 Ecology win. They’re assertive and not cooperative.
-(from Greek: οἶκος,"house", or "environment";-λογία, ACCOMODATING
"study of") biology concerning interactions -is a strategy where one party gives in to the wishes or
among organisms and their biophysical environment. demands of another. They’re being cooperative but not
assertive.
 Sustainability  COLLABORATING
-is the ability to exist constantly. Defined as the process -is the method used when people are both assertive
of people maintaining change in a stable balanced and cooperative.
environment. COMPROMISING
 Environment -where participants are partially assertive and
-relates to the surrounding in which living-organisms cooperative.
dwell. It is an area where living organisms reside.
Ecosystem
-is the community, where the living-organism lives in an RECONCILIATION
area and interacts with the other elements of the
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TRUTH
- The quality of state being true
a fact or belief that is accepted as true.
JUSTICE
- Is the quality of being just; righteousness,
equitableness or moral rightness.
PEACE
- a state or period in which there is no war or war has
ended freedom from disturbance; tranquility.
MERCY
-”compassion or forbearance show especially to an
offender or to one subject to one's power” and also “a
blessing that is an act of divine favor or compassion.
“To be at someone's mercy” indicates a person being
“without defense against someone.”
“5 DIMENSION OF
PEACEFUL RECONCILIATION
OF CONFLICTS”
1. Race Relations
2. Equality and Equity
3. Unity
4. Institutional Integrity
5. Historical Acceptance
IMPORTANCE OF
PEACEFUL RECONCILIATION OF CONFLICTS
 Reconciliation has long been recognized as a key
element of a just and lasting peace.
Peace is important in our life to have a true happiness
and it can be achieve by being true to yourself as well.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (GCEd 101)
 This course focuses on holistic, and multi-dimension
education promoting learning to live together in a more
just peaceful and inclusive societies in their local and
national context.
 Students learn, experience, share, and reflect upon
various issues on education to foster global citizenship
in today’s world;
 Hence, advocating, participatory democracy, human
rights and dignity, social economic equity, ecological
sustainability and peaceful reconciliations of conflicts.
PSYCHOMOTOR SKILLS
-knowledge should be applied
HEAD
-cognitive
HANDS
- psychomotor
AN OVERVIEW:
1. This change cover a lot of processes involving the
economy, political systems, culture, and even social
structures. Simply it described as globalization.
2. There have been contradicting, some refer it to
progress, development, and integration; as a positive
phenomenon. Sign of regression, colonialism and
destabilization.
3. Globalization can no longer be stopped, it affects
favourably some countries in terms of economic growth,
national sovereignty, and cultural identity;
4. The country does not live and operate in isolated
islands, philippines society is irresistible in spite of its pros and
cons.
5. Education for globalization should nurture children
and youth for them to fully engage the larger world and
master its greatest challenges.
6. Global education extends students’ awareness of the
world in which they live by opening them to the diverse
heritage of human thoughts and action and creativity.
7. Process of globalization have brought rapid changes
and created complexities on lives of many people like rapid
increasing, global populations, changing roles of women in
different cultural societies, the change in economic and work
patterns. Due to advances communication and technology
and the increasing impact of environmental issues.
8. Education for individuals of all background in
understanding and resolving global issues in social, political,
cultural, economic and environmental dimensions
9. Given opportunity to realize their rights and
obligations to promote a better world for themselves and
others.
10. More knowledge towards the development of critical
non-cognitive skills (tolerance, respect, empathy,
communications) necessary to build core values, soft skills,
and attitudes among leaders who can facilitate international
cooperation and promote social transformation.
GLOBAL
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NATIONAL

LOCAL

FOCAL/BARANGAYS

INFORMATION FACTS:
1. LEARN
2. EXPERIENCE
3. SHARE
4. TRUE REFLECT

HOLISTIC / MULTIDIMENSIONAL
 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
 VALUES
 SKILLS

4.…….
1. TAKE TIME
2. TAKE CARE
3. TAKE NOTE
4. TAKE COURAGE