Resources: Governance Reform Studies

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Civil Society Participation and Education Spending of Philippine Cities
Civil Society Participation and Education Spending of Philippine Cities

This paper presents the result of the exploratory research conducted by a research team of Ateneo School of Government that studied the impact of civil society participation on the responsiveness of local spending for education.

 

Politicization of Allocation and the Persistent Problem of School Building Shortage in the Philippines
Politicization of Allocation and the Persistent Problem of School Building Shortage in the Philippines

After round of monitoring of school building projects (SBPs) under the Bayanihang Eskwela, G-Watch has persistently encountered issues on allocation. This led G-Watch to inquire about the standard involving allocation.

 

G-Watch Assessment of the Responsiveness of the Education Budget Allocation for the Year 2009
G-Watch Assessment of the Responsiveness of the Education Budget Allocation for the Year 2009

This study looked at whether the following government services have been allocated where they are really needed most or where there is shortage. It sought to find out explanations for misallocation that can inform possible policy/implementation reform proposals.

 

Constructing Philippine Education, One School-Building at a Time: The Bayanihang Eskwela Story
Constructing Philippine Education, One School-Building at a Time: The Bayanihang Eskwela Story

The Government Watch (G-Watch) of Ateneo School of Government has implemented Bayanihang Eskwela since 2005. The program is a community-based monitoring of the government’s school-building projects that aims to ensure that the right quality of school building projects are implemented at the right time where it is needed most.

 

Baselining and Benchmarking of Electoral Administration Spending
Baselining and Benchmarking of Electoral Administration Spending

A follow up to the COMELEC Budget Watch in 2009, this study aimed to baseline and benchmark electoral administration spending of COMELEC, in the hope of helping inform COMELEC of relevant performance standards and indicators they should achieve in effectively linking their budget preparation and performance target setting.

 

Philippine Education Under Construction: A Policy Study on the Government School Building Program
Philippine Education Under Construction: A Policy Study on the Government School Building Program

This policy study aims to identify key issues in the implementation of the government’s school building program, focusing on the DepEd-led School Building Program for schools experiencing acute classroom shortage and the DPWH enforced Regular School Building Program which is in the ambit of Republic Act No. 7880 or more commonly known as the Roxas Law.

 

Citizen Reform Agenda 2010: For Candidates and Political Parties of the Upcoming 2010 Elections
Citizen Reform Agenda 2010: For Candidates and Political Parties of the Upcoming 2010 Elections

Citizen Reform Agenda 2010 or CReforms 2010 is a consultation process initiated by the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) through its PODER program that aims to bring together the broadest possible representation of citizen organizations in the country to identify key reform agenda or issues that candidates and political parties must address for the 2010 elections.

 

G-Watch Technology for Monitoring Compliance with Human Rights
G-Watch Technology for Monitoring Compliance with Human Rights

This is an attempt to superimpose the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) to the Social Accountability approach of G-Watch.

 

G‐Watch Tracking and Documentation Report on the Comelec Budget Process
G‐Watch Tracking and Documentation Report on the Comelec Budget Process

This provides report from the project, COMELEC Budget Watch.

 

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