Governance Reform Studies

The Need for a Comprehensive Government Response to Mental Health with Meaningful Youth Participation

This 2nd installment of TPA Now! Special Policy Edition  presents the situation of mental health in the country, including current policies and efforts to provide mental health services. It then highlights the results of the monitoring done by PRO-Health, a civil society initiative on health rights organizing, particularly on mental health. It then presents recommendations on how mental health services can be improved in the country, particularly underscoring the importance of getting the perspectives and inputs of the youth in mental health policy-making process.

TPA Now! Special Policy Edition: Strengthening Accountability in Nutrition Governance

TPA Now! Paper Series is back. This time, we zero in on cross-cutting health and education policies.

This new special series 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. 

BAGSAK! A Comprehensive Review of Independent Performance Assessments on the Philippine Government’s COVID-19 Response

We looked at all readily-accessible independent assessments done on the response of the Duterte administration to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with G-Watch’s monitoring reports on the social amelioration program, vaccination and citizen health entitlements.

The general mark given by the 49 reports reviewed in this paper on the Duterte administration’s COVID-19 response is: ‘Bagsak.’

G-Watch Report on Citizen Entitlements under COVID-19: Social Amelioration Program (SAP) Accomplishments, Misses and Challenges

This report looks into the accomplishments, misses, issues and challenges in SAP implementation using official reports of the government and the result of the monitoring done by G-Watchers in G-Watch local sites and online from mid-March to April 2020.

Enhancing the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) Report Card Survey (RCS): A Report to the Civil Service Commission

There is a need to look at how the RCS can be improved in assisting the frontline agencies in ensuring “prompt, efficient, honest and high quality” delivery of services. 

This research aims to provide recommendations to the CSC on how the ARTA-RCS can be improved in effectively assisting the frontline agencies in reducing red tape in their delivery of services by:

Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): The Philippines Progress Report 2015-2017

"In anticipation of the 2016 election, the third Philippine action plan sought to institutionalize existing OGP participatory mechanisms and largely continued expanding the scope of activities from previous action plans. While general awareness of OGP remains low, the passage on an Executive Order on Freedom of Information and inclusion of new commitments on improving public service delivery indicates sustained energy on areas with immediate impact on citizens’ lives."

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