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This third issue of the TPA Now! Special Education and Health Policy Edition underscores the latest updates on Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and presents the areas needing collaboration among key stakeholders to protect and defend 4Ps amid the challenges that it is facing, especially the cut in its budget by almost 50%.
This special series of TPA Now! is a collection of news features and policy briefs on education and health. It covers actions, issues and agenda central to two ongoing major initiatives of G-Watch: PRO-Health and Multiply-Ed.
PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is an initiative of G-Watch with Accountability Research Center (ARC) and in cooperation with other partner civil society groups and local governments that aims to strengthen transparency, participation and accountability in public health governance by building coalitions and alliances among citizens, groups and communities around health rights issues, and by facilitating learning and problem-solving among accountability frontliners and rights defenders to come up with pro-people and bottom-up solutions to systemic barriers and hurdles to reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health services.
Multiply-Ed (X-Ed) is a national initiative of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (CYAN) and Government Watch (G-Watch) together with Student Council Alliance of the Philippines (SCAP) and Bukluran UP System (BUPS), and other various student organizations, and with support from Education Out Loud of the Global Partnership for Education. It aims to improve transparency, participation, and accountability in various levels of education governance, particularly in ensuring learning continuity and recovery in Senior High Schools towards a public education system that is resilient, gender-responsive, accessible, and accountable to education stakeholders, especially for marginalized learners.
This special series of TPA Now! will be consisting of five issues covering the agenda of nutrition, teaching quality, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps, inclusive education, mental health and TPA in local health governance.
Bearing G-Watch’s 25th year logo, this TPA Now! special series also forms part of the year-long celebration of G-Watch of 25 years of advancing transparency, participation and accountability, now expanding its application to as many sectors and agenda critical to ordinary citizens.
The third issue on 4Ps was published in cooperation with the Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilyang Pantawid, particularly through inputs from a joint forum with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted in January this year.
See TPA Now! Special Policy Edition on nutrition governance here.
Here’s the paper on on mental health.