4/04/2008

2008 Panibagong Paraan Semi-Finalists

PROJECT GRANT COMPETITION SEMI-FINALISTS

Entry Number Project Title Proponent Organization Implementation Site (Province) Fund Request
08-0022 Dengue Prevention through Intensive Integrated Community Action and Parasitoid Production Against Aedes Egypti Pine Tree Benguet 1,000,000.00
08-0023 Establishment of the First Coco and Nipa Ethanol Processing Project in the Philippines at Nakar, Quezon Philippine Social Enterprise Network, Inc. Quezon 1,000,000.00
08-0029 Multi-Sectoral Partnership Towards the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor St. Ma. Goretti Development Education Foundation Negros Oriental 1,000,000.00
08-0033 Gender Friendly Barangay Development Plan Kababaihang Gabay ng Bayan (KAGABAY) Pasay, Quezon City, Paranaque 1,000,000.00
08-0042 Partnership for a Comprehensive Community Health Program Promoting Preventive Health Care and Scientific Indigenous Health Practices in Barangay Salvacion Women for Social Development, Northern Samar, Inc. Northern Samar 1,000,000.00
08-0044 K4-Karaban para sa Karapatan ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan (PKKK) 30 provinces nationwide 1,000,000.00
08-0047 The Park Avenue Initiative - A Community Based Juvenile Justice System Community and Family Services International Pasay City 960,068.00
08-0054 Bringing Together: Watershed Management and Ancestral Domain Protection for the Indigenous Peoples (WATERS PRO-IP) Project Bukidnon Higaonon Tribal Association (BUHITA) Bukidnon 1,081,000.00
08-0056 Palampas Watershed Rehabilitation Project San Carlos Development Board, Inc. Negros Occidental 1,000,000.00
08-0058 Maguey Production for Income Generation and Community/IP Women Empowerment for Sustainable Development Community Management Institute (CMI) Ilocos Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0060 Males Involvement in Family Planning using the Appreciative Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (ACOPAR) Approach Iloilo Doctors' College of Medicine Foundation, Inc. - Partnership for Health Program Iloilo 1,000,000.00
08-0061 Commercialization of the CPUCA Super Turbo Rice Husk Gasifier Stove Appropriate Technology Center, College of Agriculture, Central Philippine University Iloilo 1,000,000.00
08-0062 Bridging the Technological Gap of People Participation Naga City People's Council (NCPC) Naga City 872,400.00
08-0064 Sambayanihan - Filipinizing Barangay Leadership and Governance ASIAN Social Institute Camarines Norte 1,068,030.00
08-0065 Participatory Learning and Action Towards a Multi-stakeholder Sustainable Forest Resource Management and Conservation in Cardona, Rizal ASIAN Social Institute Rizal 1,019,000.00
08-0072 Oil Palm Trees an Industrial Ozone Neutralizer Tboli Blaan Palm Oil Multi-Purpose Cooperative South Cotabato 1,000,000.00
08-0078 Engendering the Barangay Justice System Women's Legal Bureau, Inc. Marikina City 1,000,000.00
08-0079 Lingap Bulilit: Quality Early Childhood Education in Barangay Day Care Centers Miriam College through the Institutional Network for Social Action (INSA) QC, Rizal 1,000,000.00
08-0085 Project Citizen Philippine Center for Civic Education and Democracy Sorsogon 954,500.00
08-0097 Mobilizing Stakeholders to Participate in Local Housing Delivery through the Local Housing Board in Davao City Mindanao Land Foundation, Inc. Davao City 800,000.00
08-0100 The First Autism Training Center for Parents, Barangay Health Workers and Day Care Workers in Davao City Rainbow Intervention Center for Autism Foundation, Inc. (RICAFI) Davao City 1,020,600.00
08-0101 Common Service Facility for Rambutan Fruit in Syrup Processing Provincial Federation of Women Organizations Misamis Occidental 1,000,000.00
08-0109 Co-Management in Mangrove-Friendly Tie Crab Fattening Project Trowel Development Foundation, Inc. Northern Samar 1,000,000.00
08-0110 Pamisaupan (Helping One Another) Kapampangan Marangal, Inc. Pampanga 714,406.00
08-0112 Installation of Hydraulic Ram Pumps for Water Supply Trade-off to the Protection & Conservation of 1,000 Hectares Watershed Forest Reserve Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI) Negros Occidental 925,000.00
08-0113 Mainstreaming Child's Rights Programming in the Governance of Indigenous People Village in Anggaan, Damulog, Bukidnon BALAY Rehabilitation Center, Inc. Bukidnon 1,000,000.00
08-0114 Database Monitoring System for Effective Health Service Delivery (E-Health Project) Iloilo Caucus of Development Non-Government Organizations, Inc. (ICODE) Iloilo 1,000,000.00
08-0123 Strengthening the ASPAP-LGU Partnership: Towards Improving Governance and Service Delivery at the Local Level Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP), Inc. NCR, Pampanga, Quezon, Camarines Sur, Iloilo, Negros Oriental, Cebu City, Gen. Santos City 1,000,000.00
08-0124 Establishment of Fisheries Governance Structure in Northern Lamon Bay Institute of Social Order Quezon 934,000.00
08-0128 Strengthening Partnership in Local Housing Delivery: Piloting the Implementation of the Local Community Mortgage Program in the Island Garden City of Samal IGACOS-Network of Learning Communities, Inc. Island Garden City of Samal 800,000.00
08-0129 Expansion of Project Therapy Education and Assimilation of Children with Handicap (PROJECT TEACH) Rehabilitation and Empowerment of Adults and Children with Handicap Foundation, Inc. Mandaluyong City 1,000,000.00
08-0130 IKALAHAN-KALANGUYA Justice System Promotion Kalahan Educational Foundation, Inc. Nueva Vizcaya 844,288.00
08-0139 Academe-LGU-Community Partnership: Strengthening Local Governance in Mitigating the Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Intensive Chemical Farming in the Municipality of La Trinidad, Benguet Benguet State University Benguet 1,000,000.00
08-0141 Delivery of Basic Social Services to the Matigsalug Manobo of San Fernando, Bukidnon through Sustainable Participatory Develoment Research Institute for Mindanao Culture (RIMCU) - Xavier University Bukidnon 1,000,000.00
08-0156 Empowering the Indigenous Teduray Youth to Participate in Local Governance Community and Family Services International Shariff Kabunsuan 999,200.00
08-0157 Increasing Youth Participation in Local Governance in a Conflict Affected Area through Information Technology Community and Family Services International Shariff Kabunsuan 1,000,000.00
08-0168 Breaking Ground, Building Partnership: Creating Access to Basic Education through the Distance Learning Program (DLP) Cor Jesu College-Institute of Community Services & Development (ICSD) Davao del Sur 999,900.00
08-0175 Promotion of Maranao Traditional Governance in Addressing the resolution and prevention of Clan violence Reconciliatory Initiatives for Development Opportunities (RIDO) Inc. Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte 1,000,000.00
08-0177 Aksyon Gawang Paaralan: Galing Mamamayan! Aquinas University Foundation, Inc. Albay 1,000,000.00
08-0184 Western Mayoyao Local Governance Project Pochon and Maanichar Centennial Batch Association, Inc. Ifugao 1,000,000.00
08-0185 Strengthening and Sustaining Community Initiatives in the Protection and Conservation of Mt. Matutum Watershed Mahintana Foundation South Cotabato 935,000.00
08-0190 Participatory Governance in the Internet Age: Linking Progress with Responsible and Effective Leadership ANKO Inc. (AmusNaKitaOasnon, Inc.) (It's time to Move On, Oasnon) Albay 700,000.00
08-0192 Intellectual Prosumer: Development of Instructional Materials for Science and Mathematics in Elementary Education University of Southeastern Philippines Davao City 1,000,000.00
08-0209 Mobile Life Learning Hub Regional Council for Research & Development (RECORD) Foundation, Inc, (RFI) Compostela Valley 1,000,000.00
08-0219 Proposal for a Barangay Civil Registration Program Integrated Bar of the Philippines -Zambasulta Chapter Zamboanga City 780,000.00
08-0223 Upgrading of HELP-Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Services with Community Psychiatry and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Component HELP Learning Center Foundation, Inc. Camarines Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0225 Balikatan Para sa Kalusugan Tungo sa Kaunlaran Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation Inc. Bataan 1,000,000.00
08-0230 Invoking Governance to Enable the Deaf Listen to the News Gualandi Volunteers Service Programme Cebu City 1,000,000.00
08-0243 Sagbayan Social Enterprise Development Project (SSEDP): Matching Unemployed Youth with Idle Land Bohol Local Development Foundation, Inc. (BLDF) Bohol 1,000,000.00
08-0256 Weaving Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in Economic Governance to Develop a Tapestry of Sustainable Enterprises Shontoug Foundation, Inc. Benguet 988,000.00
08-0258 Fair Trade in Tourism Advocates of Philippine Fair Trade, Inc. Antique 1,000,000.00
08-0267 Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project Revitalize Indigenous Cordilleran Entrepreneurs (RICE) Inc. Ifugao, Kalinga, Mt. Province 1,000,000.00
08-0270 Economic Partnership of Farmer Organizations with Local Government and Private Sector on Abaca Production Educational Discipline in Culture and Area-Based Development Services, Inc. Agusan del Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0281 Zero Illegal Recruitment ITTI La Union Kanlungan Center Foundation, Inc. (KCFI) La Union 920,000.00
08-0283 Strengthening of GO-NGO-PO Collaboration on Community-based Renewable Energy Systems (CBRES) for Sustainable Development Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya (SIBAT), Inc. Kalinga, La Union, Abra, Apayao 1,050,000.00
08-0284 GO-NGO-PO Collaboration on Climate Change and Rural Development Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya (SIBAT), Inc. Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, Leyte 1,000,000.00
08-0301 Empowering Local Stakeholders for Women's Human Rights Defense and Advocacy Women's Legal Education, Advocacy and Defense (WomenLEAD) Foundation, Inc. Morong & Binangonan, Rizal 1,000,000.00
08-0304 Minimizing Deaths and Debts: Leveraging a Hospitalization Financing Scheme To Set Up Community-Based Primary Health Care (Piso Ko, Kalusugan Natin) Katungod han Samarena Foundation Inc. (KSFi) Samar 1,000,000.00
08-0308 Integrated Ecological Solid Waste Management System for the Municipality of Dolores, Quezon Tanggol Kalikasan, Inc. Quezon 933,000.00
08-0311 A Healthy Productive Life for Lymphatic Filariasis Patients Lingap para sa Kalusugan ng Sambayanan, Inc. (LIKAS) Sorsogon 1,000,000.00
08-0313 Addressing Human Security Issues in Tawi-tawi Through Enhanced LGU-CSO Capacity and Collaboration Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas Tawi-Tawi 970,000.00
08-0315 New Lives for Old - Peace, Growth and Good Governance Through Social Enterprise Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation Lanao del Norte 1,000,000.00
08-0319 Sustaining Agusan Marsh Fishery Resources Through Good Environmental Governance LEAF Foundation Inc Agusan del Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0320 Community Based Disaster Management in Priority Environmentally Critical Areas in Davao River Watershed People Collaborating for Environmental and Economic Management in Davao Foundation , Inc. (PCEEM) Davao City, Davao del Sur 980,000.00
08-0323 Ang Muling Pagkabuhay ng Gitnang Lunsod ng Maynila: Recasting Structural and Natural Heritage to Revive the Urban Environment of the University Belt in Manila Women's Media Circle Foundation Inc (WMC) Manila 995,000.00
08-0333 Handang Komunidad, Malayo sa Kalamidad: NCF Typhoon Disaster Preparedness Program for Camarines Sur Naga College Foundation Naga City/ Camarines Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0334 Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of People Living with HIV through Linking Initiatives and Networking Pinoy Plus Association Inc Manila 1,000,000.00
08-0337 Technology and People Partnership Towards a Well Rounded and Sustainable Community and Market Waste Management Program Anchored on Vermiculture, Bioreactor and Plastic Waste Recycling Gov. Eduardo L. Joson Memorial Lodge No. 326 Nueva Ecija 1,000,000.00
08-0338 Ang Nagkakaisang Adhikain ng mga Kabitenyo (ANAK): Restorative and Community Justice for Youth-at-Risk De La Salle University-Dasmari¤as Lasallian Community Development Center Cavite 1,000,000.00
08-0340 Four COPS to Improve Health Products and Service Delivery in Asipulo, Ifugao Cordillera Network of Development NGOs and POs (CORDNET) Ifugao 988,000.00
08-0345 Institutionalization of Incentive Mechanisms and Establishment of Standards in Managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Municipality of Calatagan, Batangas Through Guaranteeship and Counterparting Scheme Tambuyog Development Center Inc Batangas 998,000.00
08-0348 Improving the Quality and Quantity of Resolved Civil Cases at the Barangay Level in Caloocan, Marikina and Quezon City Batas Barangay Development Foundation, Inc. QC, Caloocan, Marikina City 1,000,000.00
08-0356 Iwas-Waldas Program: Enhancing LGU Capability for OFW Reintegration Creative Collective Center, Inc. Tarlac City 1,000,000.00
08-0370 Heritage and Environmental Conservation through Eco-Cultural Tourism Development Batanes Heritage Foundation Inc. (BHFI) Batanes 1,010,000.00
08-0379 Bantay Sangkay: What You Don't See Is What You Get - Embedding Elements of Social Accountability Through the Community Driven Development Approach Institute for Democratic Participation in Governance Samar 1,000,000.00
08-0383 Community-NGO-LGU Partnership for Sustainable Tourism in Ifugao Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement (SITMo) Ifugao 1,000,000.00
08-0385 Developing Community Response to the Challenge of Children in Contact with the Law Lihok Pilipina Foundation, Inc. Cebu City 980,000.00
08-0387 Engendering A Culture of Intolerance to Graft and Corruption thru a People's Development Outpost Ateneo de Naga University Camarines Sur 980,000.00
08-0390 Enhancing EWAMP thru Innovative Partnership Design Center for Ecosystems & Protected Area Management (CEPAM), Inc. Camarines Sur 1,006,500.00
08-0404 Regenerating Sea-grass Beds through Sea-ranching An TANDAYA Foundation Samar 981,000.00
08-0406 Scaling Up Demonstration Project of Rainwater Harvesting for Climate Change Adaptation Kahublagan Sang Panimalay Fnd Inc Iloilo 1,000,000.00
08-0407 Sweet Sorghum for Food, Feed, Forage and Fuel (Bioethanol) as a Substitute Crop to Tobacco Mariano Marcos State University Ilocos Sur 985,000.00
08-0409 Tarapitze: Sweetening the Lives of the Farmers Roxas Gargollo Foundation, Inc. Batangas 1,000,000.00
08-0432 Business Councils as a Tool for Local Governance Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce & Industry Camarines Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0441 How To Create A Recipe For A Sustainable Sectoral Partnership for SME Development, Training and Youth Employment Culinary Education Foundation Zambales 990,200.00
08-0442 Panay Island Multi-Stakeholders Power Development Planning (Stage 2) Green Forum - Western Visayas Inc. Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, Roxas City, Iloilo City, Passi city 882,700.00
08-0453 Muslim Christian Ecological Sanitation Project Lanao Foundation Inc Lanao del Norte 1,000,000.00
08-0454 Invigorating School and Community Participation for Agusan Marsh Good Enviromental Governance HEED Foundation Inc Agusan del Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0455 Rural Enterprise Model for Biofuel and Other Products from Pineapple and Other Agricultural Wastes APPROTECH Asia South Cotabato 800,000.00
08-0458 Developing a Paradigm Shift in Funding and Management of Environmental Defense Program in the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay Coalition for the Development of Sibuguey (CODE-S) Zamboanga Sibugay 1,000,000.00
08-0462 Establishment of an IP School for the Higaonon Children at Esperanza, Agusan del Sur (Grade 1 Level)
Pulled out of competition
Office of the Planning & Extension, Philippine Normal University, Agusan Campus Agusan del Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0463 SK Watch Project Environmental Cooperation and Linkages Incorporated (ECOLINK) Philippines Misamis Occidental 650,000.00
08-0473 Suriin ang Kahirapan: A Community audit of poverty in the Philippines Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Zamboanga del Norte, Maguindanao, Masbate, Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Sur 1,000,000.00
08-0478 Institutionalizing a Participatory Land Distribution Process in the Municipality of Culion, Palawan Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN) or Alternative Legal Assistance Center (ALAC) Palawan 1,000,000.00
08-0480 Calendar Method in Cassava Enterprise Tinubdan sa Kalamboan Foundation, Inc. Bukidnon 1,000,000.00
08-0497 Junk Foods? No, its Junk for Food!: Mobilizing Private Sector and LGU partnership for bringing sustainable nutrition services to the urban poor. The Navigators Philippines Laguna 1,000,000.00
08-0503 Ina Para sa Ina: Assistance to VAWC Victims Asosasyon ng mga Ulirang Ina sa Cavite (AUIC) Cavite 900,000.00
08-0512 Hi-Tek Itek : Uplifting the Plight of Small-Scale Duck Raisers Through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships University of the Phils. Los Ba¤os College of Agriculture Laguna 988,000.00
08-516 PARINTA KAPTUNTAYA: On-the-Air Project: Making Partnership for Mindanao Peace and Governance in the Airwaves Bangsa Iranun Muslim People Organization, Inc. Cotabato City 1,000,000.00
08-517 Buko Fiber: Weaving Partnership Towards Sustainable Waste Management and Livelihood Generation for the Poor Families Farming Systems and Soil Resources Institute, University of the Philippines at Los Banos Laguna 1,000,000.00
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So Many Things We Owe Our Justices

By Francisco Tatad
Blog: First Things First

With the Philippine Supreme Court ruling on executive privilege (Neri vs. the Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations et al), President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, despite continuing calls for her resignation, may have become the most powerful president around. And the SC, the most culpable and complicit Supreme Court anywhere.

Under the SC ruling, Cabinet members may no longer have to answer any question from Congress on any controversial issue involving the Office of the President. All they have to do is to invoke executive privilege, and Congress can go no further to oblige them to say anything to either House or any of its committees.

This has the effect of revising the Constitution. It effectively denies and destroys the right of Congress to inquire into sensitive matters involving the Executive, shreds off the principle of check and balance, and reduces Congress to an inferior branch of government, while making the Executive a part bigger than the whole.

The Justices labor to make a false distinction between hearings in aid of legislation and those related to the exercise of Congress’ oversight function. They make the highly questionable claim that Congress may compel the Executive’s participation in one, but not in the other. They forget that the Executive and the Legislative are two co-equal and coordinate branches of government: one may not compel the other to do anything, but a “request” by one may not be denied by the other, especially if it is written in the Constitution.

Like it or not, the SC ruling reinforces our people’s worst fears about our Justices. Many are beginning to feel that Mrs. Arroyo’s sins will soon pass away, but the sins of the Justices will continue to inflict grave injury upon the country long after they are gone.

The ruling on executive privilege is but the latest sin.

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4/03/2008

A Tenuous Victory for Arroyo

Commentary
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 13:44:00 04/02/2008

The Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Romulo Neri to invoke executive privilege in refusing to answer the queries of senators regarding the role of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the approval of the National Broadband Network contract with ZTE of China provided the Arroyo government with the legal weapon to continue concealing not only the truth but its many crimes against the people. It gave primacy to the right of the executive over the right of the people to information affecting their lives, and it practically clipped the oversight functions of Congress.

Worse, the decision tainted the integrity of the only remaining branch of government that, before this controversial decision, has not yet been debased by the Arroyo government in its desperate attempt to stay in power. The Arroyo administration has once more utilized its dominant number in government to subvert the will and suppress the rights of the majority of the Filipino people. It has practically closed one of the few remaining venues where the people can seek redress against the abuses of power of the executive.

The Arroyo government has closed the door on the impeachment process with the consolidation of its hold on the Lower House of Congress. It has clipped the investigative powers of Senate. It has been using the Justice Department to legitimize its illegal acts and to persecute its critics. It has rendered the Office of the Ombudsman inutile. And now this!

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How wide already is the extent of the damages that corruption has done to our institutions? How difficult will it be and how long will it take to repair these damages?

When evil strikes, it really hits hard and wide.

It was not so long ago when former Chief Justice Hilario Davide (who is from Cebu) called the Supreme Court as "the last bulwark of democracy." But now, this last defensive wall of our democracy has started to be breached -- if not already being penetrated.

What a lamentable time this is for our democracy.

Vessel of honor, vessel of dishonor

I recalled a portion from Paul's letter to
the Romans wherein he was driving a point regarding the controversy of God's sovereignty. Paul used the case of Pharaoh whose heart God hardened in order for His plan and purpose be fulfilled through him.

[Romans 9:17-22] The Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.” So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction?

Lady, did you remember this word? How about this word?

Signs of Hope

By Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:06:00 04/03/2008

The search is on again for innovative ideas to address development and poverty challenges as well as local governance. Up to P1 million each in grants is up for grabs for organizations with proposals on this year’s theme, “Building Partnerships for Effective Local Governance.”

I have been a frequent goer to the yearly Panibagong Paraan, or New Way, “marketplace.” It’s a great source not only of innovative ideas but also of stories to write about what people think up in order to be of help to their fellow Filipinos. Here you can feel the quiet heroism and daring of those who are working on the ground among real people with real needs.

If you want to take a break from soul-polluting politics, go to the mall for this event. It will surely take away some of your cynicism, bitterness, hopelessness and fatigue. Eat healthy afterwards.

Ninety-nine finalists from over 500 entries from all over the country will showcase their ideas at the Megatrade Halls 2 and 3 at SM Megamall on April 9 and 10. This will be a great time to exchange ideas, visions and strategies, and, most of all, share hope.

This year’s “development marketplace” will be a venue for sharing not only among the finalists but with the public as well. Knowledge, skills, best practices on multi-sectoral partnerships in governance will be shared through roundtable discussions, workshops and presentations by past Panibagong Paraan winners.

Since this year’s theme revolves around local governance, local officials even at the “barangay” [village or neighborhood district] level should go and be amazed by how much can be done at the local level. In fact, many say, ignore the national, the endless bickering, politicking and grandstanding. There is hope at the local level.

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There is time for criticism and there is time for finding solutions. Activities and events such as this should be encouraged and promoted and done regularly.

Is there a website for the said event?