This G-Watch report shares the highlights from the workshop series that aimed to enable health units through Transparency-Participation-Accountability (TPA) to strengthen health and education and promotion. The workshop convened barangay-level health stakeholders, including barangay officials, Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials, community health personnel and local civil society groups to form a TPA for health core group that now help push for improved health service delivery in their barangay.

This fifth issue of the TPA Now! Special Education and Health Policy Edition highlights efforts to make public education inclusive to marginalized learners. It shares existing efforts of the government, as well as lessons learned by Multiply-Ed on what civil society can do to make schools more inclusive based on the experience of Gayon Albay LGBTQ Organization Inc. (Gayon). Gayon is an organization whose mission is to empower local LGBTQIA+ communities in the Bicol Region.

To test its spot-checking tool in flood control projects in a provincial setting, the Government Watch (G-Watch) conducted a spot-checking of flood control projects (FCPs) in La Union, specifically in the Municipalities of Bacnotan and Luna, on October 21, 2025. 

This report, which supplements the earlier report on Pasig, highlights key findings, insights and recommendations from the La Union pilot run of G-Watch’s spot-checking of flood control projects.

Government Watch (G-Watch) conducted a pilot spot-checking of infrastructure projects in Pasig on September 23-24, 2025 to answer whether and how citizens can monitor flood control projects (FCPs). A total of 19 projects in Pasig City were checked by a 7-person team consisting of four G-Watch Center team members, two volunteer-engineers and one staff of the Pasig local government.

This paper, the 4th in the Special Policy Edition of TPA Now!, presents the situation of teachers and their lived experiences, the state of response of the government to improve teaching quality and the ways forward based on the Multiply-Ed E-Skwela forum on February 14, 2025, Multiply-Ed’s phase 2 monitoring and recent related reports and studies.