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26 - 29 April 2024
PRO-Health 2nd National Learning Exchange: Advocacy and Engagement Planning
Holiday Inn Cebu City

PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) and Accountability Research Center (ARC) in partnership with several civil society groups and local governments.


26 March 2024
Enhancing Governments’ Capacity to Respond to Citizen Voice and Demand: A MultiplY-Ed Roundtable Discussion
Ortigas

Multiply-Ed (X-Ed) is a national initiative of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking (CYAN) and Government Watch (G-Watch | www.g-watch.org) in cooperation with various youth and student organizations and with support from Education Out Loud of the Global Partnership for Education.


14 - 16 February 2024
Ako Ikaw Tayo May Pananagutan 2024 | G-Watch Briefing-Orientation Seminar on Health Budget Monitoring

Background

Public investment in health and effective and responsive use of health budget are crucial in ensuring equal access to quality healthcare.


23 January 2024
PRO-Health Problem-Solving Sessions

G-Watch is currently conducting Problem-Solving Sessions for PRO-Health in all its 7 core local sites and 6 sites of its core partner organizations. 

Problem-Solving Session (PSS) is part of G-Watch’s post- monitoring activities that serves as a space for the result of the monitoring and preliminary analysis and recommendations of the monitoring teams to be presented to duty-bearers to generate response, additional inputs and commitments and identify common ways forward.


24 - 27 November 2023


24 November 2023


29 April - 30 July 2023
G-Watch Launches its new Health Initiative, Conducts Briefing-Orientation for Volunteer-Monitors

G-Watch goes PRO-Health!

PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) that aims to improve public health governance to make quality reproductive, maternal and newborn, children and adolescents health services accessible to all.


9 - 11 March 2023
G-Watch-SNPP Learning Exchange

On 9-11 March 2023, the G-Watch Center will hold a learning exchange with Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipinong Pantawid (SNPP) in Baguio City. A national organization of beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), SNPP was formed alongside the successful campaign to pass the 4Ps Law with SNPP leaders being at the forefront of the campaign.

 


9 - 18 February 2023
2023 Ako, Ikaw, Tayo May Pananagutan: More Pananagutan sa Post-Pandemic Pilipinas

An awareness-raising campaign of Government Watch (G-Watch) began in 2012, Ako, Ikaw, Tayo, May Pananagutan (AIM-P) is undertaken by its sites and partners to promote the importance of accountability in improving governance and advancing democracy. 

Now on its fifth straight year, AIM-P 2023 has the theme “More Pananagutan sa Post-Pandemic Pilipinas,” which aims to create awareness on the importance of strengthening accountability to improve governance in the delivery of basic services, such as education and health, as the country transitions to the new normal.


6 - 9 January 2023
2nd National Learning Exchange with Accountability Frontliners

2nd National Learning Exchange with Accountability Frontliners

Iloilo City | 6-9 January 2022

 

Government Watch (G-Watch), in cooperation with Accountability Research Center (ARC),  is undertaking an initiative to learn with, from and for accountability frontliners. Entitled Accountability Frontliners Learning Initiative (AFLI) in the Philippines, the aim of the said effort is to reflect, learn, document and share the innovative, adaptive and/or effective approaches employed by G-Watch during the pandemic.

 

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14 September 2024
G-Watch and Dumaguete Local Youth Development Office launch a monitoring tool to check adolescent health

Last August 27-28, 2024, Government Watch (G-Watch), together with its local core team and the Local Development Youth Office (LYDO), conducted a workshop on how to effectively monitor adolescent health programs in Dumaguete. This was a follow-up activity after a successful problem-solving session done earlier in March when the Dumaguete LYDO expressed interest to improve delivering relevant health services to their young constituents in response to heightened concerns over mental health, teenage pregnancy, increase in HIV/STI cases, and challenges in promoting health-seeking behavior.


22 August 2024
Strengthening Accountability in Nutrition Governance

On August 16, 2024, Multiply-Ed conducted another session of its E-Skwela Forum Series that takes on critical policy issues on education, this time focusing on nutrition.


16 August 2024
A call for Representation of Mothers and Students in the National and Local Nutrition Councils

A Position Paper of Multiply-Ed and PRO-Health

While there has been a significant decline in incidences of malnutrition and stunting in the country, the decline has been slow. Likely, the progress made will be overtaken by population growth.

Recognizing the critical link between nutrition and education outcomes, the Education Commission zeroed in on the need for a “unified agency action to fix nutrition programs in early years.”


13 August 2024
Multiply-Ed Advances Student Representation in the Local School Board in Negros on International Youth Day

On August 11, in anticipation of the 2024 International Youth Day, the Multiply-Ed team conducted a Participatory Education Governance Forum in Seda Hotel Bacolod City featuring discussions on the expansion of Local School Boards (LSBs) and the importance of including a student representation to fill in the gaps in the education sector.


22 July 2024
Multiply-Ed Team Conducts 2nd Learning Collaborative on Youth-Led Advocacy, Communications and Engagement

To keep the momentum after a successful round of Briefing Orientation Seminars, Multiply-Ed’s national team went on to conduct their second Learning Collaboration (LC) on vertical integration (VI) in Batanes last July 8-13, 2024.

Ms. Joy Aceron set the tone for the second iteration of the LC on VI, by discussing the rationale of such sessions as a deliberate and systematic effort to learn and strategize.

“Multiply-Ed,” Aceron pointed, “is geared to be the prime example of VI’s potential for scale and replicability.”


25 June 2024
PRO-Health presents monitoring findings to central health department

G-Watch held a national-level problem-solving session with the Department of Health (DoH) last June 19 at the DoH Central Office to initially discuss and address the findings and recommendations of PRO-Health. 

Present were DoH officials and staff from 


10 June 2024
Multiply-Ed and PRO-Health join forces to convene the Mindanao Youth Assembly for Mental Health

More than 100 hundred student-leaders and mental health advocates were convened last June 4 in Davao City to take on the worsening situation of mental health crisis in the country.


5 May 2024
G-Watch opens draft health reform agenda for public comments and feedback

PRO-Health or Promoting Rights Organizing for Health is a health organizing initiative of the Government Watch (G-Watch) and Accountability Research Center (ARC) in partnership with several civil society groups and local governments.


13 April 2024
Multiply-Ed Phase 2 begins, Tools for the 2nd Round of Nationwide School-Level Monitoring Pilot-Tested in Pasig

Multiply-Ed Phase 2 is officially on the move at all levels of public education governance!


4 March 2024
G-Watch Conducts Health Budget Monitoring Workshop

 

Last February 14 to 16, 2024, Government Watch (G-Watch) held a Briefing Orientation Seminar (BOS) on Health Budget Monitoring with its PRO-Health partners-organizations. The event gathered more than 30 participants from ten national and Greater Manila Area-based organizations.

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