Making Elections an Accountability Platform (MEAP) 2025

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.

Mobilizing citizens who will undertake collective conscientization, analysis and agenda-setting would be crucial to prevent the elections from further being captured by money and dynastic politics. With social media being prone to disinformation, ground citizen-led information-sharing and fact-checking to inform collective analysis and choices would be crucial. Civil society needs to offer an alternative to the traditional and patronage-based engagement of politicians with citizens to somehow offer hope for reforms in elections.

G-Watch relaunches Making Elections an Accountability Platform (MEAP), its citizenship education initiative during elections. MEAP serves as a platform for citizens to collectively discuss the national situation and come up with crucial campaign agenda to be used in engaging and/ or gauging candidates and parties. MEAP forms part of G-Watch’s integrated citizen action that connects engagement in governance with electoral outcomes as key inter-connected components of an accountability ecosystem.

MEAP 2025 aims to turn the 2025 elections as a platform to advance G-Watch’s reform agenda on health, education, social protection and transparency-participation-accountability (TPA).

To read more on the MEAP concept, see

For the 1st round of MEAP sessions to be facilitated by G-Watch Center, G-Watch local core group leaders, core volunteer-monitors and key allied leaders from government and civil society will be attending scheduled as follows:

  • Dumaguete – January 29-30
  • San Miguel, Bohol – February 4-5
  • Puerto Princesa – February 8-9
  • NCR – February 13-14
  • General Santos (with Student Council Alliance of the Philippines) – February 22-23
  • Marawi – February 26-27
  • Naga – March 6-7
  • Cebu (with Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilyang Pantawid) - March 15-16
  • Tacloban (with Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pamilyang Pantawid) - March 26