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The paper looks into the subtle ways civic space is being constrained even in the context of supposed constructive engagement with the government and how these were overcome by accountability frontliners based on the experience of Multiply-Ed. It ends with lessons and recommendations on how accountability frontliners can be sustainably protected as they engage governments, which is crucial in winning back the civic space.
Last year, G-Watch released the PRO-Health Monitoring Report: The Imperatives of Strengthening Community-Based Health Services. The report presents the findings of PRO-Health monitoring conducted by about 300 volunteer-monitors in 13 sites all over the country from April 2023 to February 2024.
This report presents the findings of PRO-Health monitoring conducted by about 300 volunteer-monitors in 13 sites all over the country from April 2023 to February 2024. The monitoring covered 257 health units mostly visited twice and interviewed 794 health workers and 1,364 citizen-beneficiaries using three monitoring tools designed according to the multi-level monitoring approach of G-Watch.
In 2022, 237 volunteer-monitors of Multiply-Ed from 53 schools all over the country conducted a school-level monitoring on the implementation of the Department of Education Basic Education - Learning Continuity Plans (BE-LCP).
What is inside the report?
This report documents the highlights of the learning exchange convened by Government Watch (G-Watch) in Cebu City on April 24-26, 2024. The learning exchange reflected on the ongoing health accountability initiative of G-Watch with Accountability Research Center (ARC) called Promoting Rights Organizing for Health or PRO-Health, particularly looking into advocacy and engagement to improve government responsiveness in health.
During the said learning exchange, the following were accomplished that were presented in the report:
In this report, G-Watch presents its review of evidence on the access and quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, children and adolescent health (RMNCAH). The report summarizes key points from 80 related reports, studies and documents reviewed, presenting the profile of Philippine health governance, including the legal framework, the key policy actors, and the major programs and services; the barriers and challenges in the access to quality reproductive, maternal, neonatal, children and adolescent health; and the relevant gaps and opportunities.
The 10th issue of TPA Now! looks into the accountability system in health fiscal reforms, particularly in the spending of health budget from the Sin Tax.
Based on more than two decades of experience of Government Watch (G-Watch), simple and easy-to-use monitoring tools enable civil society to monitor government policies, programs and services. Monitoring tools make a highly technical process of monitoring accessible to and doable for citizens, allowing them to check whether standards set in government’s policies and plans are followed in the actual implementation and facilitating their generation of actionable evidence that inform their advocacies and proposed actions to governments. The experience of Multiply-Ed further validates this.
The paper, the ninth in the TPA Now! Paper Series that started in 2021, shows the strength of using multi-level context analysis and engagement in enabling citizen movements to be strategic — to have a nuanced understanding of the state of governance and democracy; to identify entry points; and strategize in a context of closing civic space and to set agenda for future advocacies.
Last March 3-8, 2022, Government Watch (G-Watch), in collaboration with Accountability Research Center, convened its leaders all over the country for its first national in-person event: the 2022 G-Watch national meeting and learning exchange held in Pasig and Baguio.