Health | social protection | infrastructure | BARMM
Citizen monitoring | budget accountability | participatory budgeting | civil society oversight | strengthening state accountability institutions and mechanisms
The workshop was part of G-Watch's "Training on G-Watch as a Social Accountability Approach" from April 2-9, 2011. ANSA-EAP was given 2 days for a constructive engagement workshop. The aim of the workshop was to engage participants in the value of social accountability and constructive engagement between government and civil society, and how these are linked to the initiatives of GWatch. It shall have the following specific objectives:
What transpired in the country's politics in the last months requires deep reflection and introspection on what have governance reforms achieved and not achieved, its unintended consequences and the possible ill-effects of how it was popularized and practiced under the previous administration.
Ordinary citizens from all over the country doing extra-ordinary things: convening groups coming from different traditions and political persuasions to discuss and decide on issues of transparency, accountability and reform; linking action and research, theory and practice by taking part in knowledge generation and production grounded from experience and through learning and collective introspection; connecting reform work on governance, elections and institution-building/ policy through action research, citizen monitoring and policy advocacy.
30 leaders from 10 G-Watch sites (9 regions) all over the country gathered to discuss the reboot process G-Watch will go through as it spins-off as an independent social accountability action research civil society organization.
G-Watch convened more than 50 participants coming from civil society organizations (both national and local, including those from the eight local sites of G-Watch), academe, and government (current and former), in a round table discussion on the challenges and prospects of open government in the Philippines.
The RTD specifically targets to convene developers and users of CETs and key Transparency-Participation-Accountability (TPA) CSOs to discuss (1) the objectives or desired impact of CETs, (2) the state of use/ uptake, (3) factors that affected use/ uptake (or non-use/ non-uptake), (4) key issues and challenges.
On October 4-6, 2017 in Puerto Princesa City, a number of new potential cadre recruits will undergo the G-Watch's Citizen Action for Accountability Training that the G-Watch Center is currently developing. Part of the training is the pilot run of a budget tracking of the Community Development Fund (CDF) of barangays deemed critical to be engaged by the Community-Based Sustainable Tourism (BSCT) leaders, who are the lead constituencies of G-Watch-Puerto Princesa.
The roundtable discussion is a space for stakeholders and actors of open government in the Philippines to reflect and discuss the impact and lessons of the Philippine experience on key open government reforms in recent years, especially in light of political transition.