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Elections have shown serious weaknesses in holding power to account and in enabling societies to identify leaders well qualified to address crucial issues and problems affecting the people. Yet, elections continue to be a necessary democratic exercise for lack of a viable alternative in collectively deciding on who to rule.
Elections allow citizens to choose duty-bearers who can represent their needs and interests. The electoral process is one of the ways citizens hold government officials accountable for the power and responsibility that are given to them. Decisions made by the elected have long-term implications for the succeeding years, and whoever wins in 2025 will determine the direction the country will take, especially for health, education, and transparency, participation and accountability (TPA).
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PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) and Accountability Research Center (ARC) in partnership with several civil society groups and local governments.
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Multiply-Ed (X-Ed) is a national initiative of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (CYAN) and Government Watch (G-Watch | www.g-watch.org) in cooperation with various youth and student organizations and with support from Education Out Loud of the Global Partnership for Education.
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Public investment in health and effective and responsive use of health budget are crucial in ensuring equal access to quality healthcare.
G-Watch is currently conducting Problem-Solving Sessions for PRO-Health in all its 7 core local sites and 6 sites of its core partner organizations.
Problem-Solving Session (PSS) is part of G-Watch’s post- monitoring activities that serves as a space for the result of the monitoring and preliminary analysis and recommendations of the monitoring teams to be presented to duty-bearers to generate response, additional inputs and commitments and identify common ways forward.
Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is an initiative of G-Watch and Accountability Research Center on strategic approach to accountability in health.
Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is an initiative of G-Watch and Accountability Research Center on strategic approach to accountability in health.
G-Watch goes PRO-Health!
PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) that aims to improve public health governance to make quality reproductive, maternal and newborn, children and adolescents health services accessible to all.
On 9-11 March 2023, the G-Watch Center will hold a learning exchange with Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipinong Pantawid (SNPP) in Baguio City. A national organization of beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), SNPP was formed alongside the successful campaign to pass the 4Ps Law with SNPP leaders being at the forefront of the campaign.
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G-Watch and Dumaguete Local Youth Development Office launch a monitoring tool to check adolescent health
Last August 27-28, 2024, Government Watch (G-Watch), together with its local core team and the Local Development Youth Office (LYDO), conducted a workshop on how to effectively monitor adolescent health programs in Dumaguete. This was a follow-up activity after a successful problem-solving session done earlier in March when the Dumaguete LYDO expressed interest to improve delivering relevant health services to their young constituents in response to heightened concerns over mental health, teenage pregnancy, increase in HIV/STI cases, and challenges in promoting health-seeking behavior.
Strengthening Accountability in Nutrition Governance
On August 16, 2024, Multiply-Ed conducted another session of its E-Skwela Forum Series that takes on critical policy issues on education, this time focusing on nutrition.
A call for Representation of Mothers and Students in the National and Local Nutrition Councils
A Position Paper of Multiply-Ed and PRO-Health
While there has been a significant decline in incidences of malnutrition and stunting in the country, the decline has been slow. Likely, the progress made will be overtaken by population growth.
Recognizing the critical link between nutrition and education outcomes, the Education Commission zeroed in on the need for a “unified agency action to fix nutrition programs in early years.”
Multiply-Ed Advances Student Representation in the Local School Board in Negros on International Youth Day
On August 11, in anticipation of the 2024 International Youth Day, the Multiply-Ed team conducted a Participatory Education Governance Forum in Seda Hotel Bacolod City featuring discussions on the expansion of Local School Boards (LSBs) and the importance of including a student representation to fill in the gaps in the education sector.
Multiply-Ed Team Conducts 2nd Learning Collaborative on Youth-Led Advocacy, Communications and Engagement
To keep the momentum after a successful round of Briefing Orientation Seminars, Multiply-Ed’s national team went on to conduct their second Learning Collaboration (LC) on vertical integration (VI) in Batanes last July 8-13, 2024.
Ms. Joy Aceron set the tone for the second iteration of the LC on VI, by discussing the rationale of such sessions as a deliberate and systematic effort to learn and strategize.
“Multiply-Ed,” Aceron pointed, “is geared to be the prime example of VI’s potential for scale and replicability.”
PRO-Health presents monitoring findings to central health department
G-Watch held a national-level problem-solving session with the Department of Health (DoH) last June 19 at the DoH Central Office to initially discuss and address the findings and recommendations of PRO-Health.
Present were DoH officials and staff from
Multiply-Ed and PRO-Health join forces to convene the Mindanao Youth Assembly for Mental Health
More than 100 hundred student-leaders and mental health advocates were convened last June 4 in Davao City to take on the worsening situation of mental health crisis in the country.
G-Watch opens draft health reform agenda for public comments and feedback
PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) and Accountability Research Center (ARC) in partnership with several civil society groups and local governments.
Multiply-Ed Phase 2 begins, Tools for the 2nd Round of Nationwide School-Level Monitoring Pilot-Tested in Pasig
Multiply-Ed Phase 2 is officially on the move at all levels of public education governance!
G-Watch Conducts Health Budget Monitoring Workshop
Last February 14 to 16, 2024, Government Watch (G-Watch) held a Briefing Orientation Seminar (BOS) on Health Budget Monitoring with its PRO-Health partners-organizations. The event gathered more than 30 participants from ten national and Greater Manila Area-based organizations.