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TOMS is looking for dynamic young Filipino leaders!

On August 5, 2011 By

If you are a dynamic and passionate youth leader in the Philippines with great ideas, then TOMS wants YOU to be part of Campus Clubs Philippines.

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Pioneer projects, help children in need, connect with other agents of change, and promote conscious consumerism by being [...]

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Towards a Strategic Development Road Map (Update)

On August 4, 2011 By

The following is a matrix of the Strategies contained in the government’s Philippine Development Plan 2011-16  plotted against the five key results areas under the Cabinet Cluster system of the Aquino Cabinet.

The five themes include: 1) Good Governance and Anti-Corruption, 2) Human Development and [...]

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That Vision Thing Redux: Wang-Wang Culture

On August 1, 2011 By

In tackling wang-wang culture, has the president left something big out?

The president in his new found role as Sociologist in Chief spoke at his second State of the Nation Address about his vision for a nation free of what he described as a culture of wang-wang [...]

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PNoy's 2nd State of the Nation (SONA)

Benigno S. Aquino III, Second State of the Nation Address, July 25, 2011

On July 25, 2011 By

State of the Nation Address of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III President of the Philippines To the Congress of the Philippines

[Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 25, 2011]

Senate President Juan Ponce [...]

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Securing our future through Agriculture

On July 16, 2011 By

The average age of Filipino farmers, according to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food Sen. Kiko Pangilinan, is 57. Meanwhile, the average age of the Department of Agriculture‘s (DA) employees is mid 50′s.  Aren’t  the figures alarming?

To solve this hounding problem in the [...]

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call for applications: Global Changemakers Youth Summit in the UK

On July 16, 2011 By

Sixty (60) social activists will be selected from all over the world to attend the Global Youth Summit in England, November 13-19. The participants will spend a week in the UK sharing best practices in the areas of human rights, climate change, poverty reduction, education, HIV/AIDS, and social [...]

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The Power of One

On July 6, 2011 By

Assessing PNoy’s freshman year: the good, the bad and the ugly

In numerology, the number 1 bears singular importance. The first, the start, the origin of anything bears significance and meaning in the sense that it opens up possibilities, it sets the scene, and it leads the [...]

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The National Development Project, part 3: Renovating the Bureaucracy

On July 3, 2011 By

This is the third of a three-part series on the Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016.

We have looked at the PNoy government’s development strategy in Part 1 in which infrastructure was seen as the problem to unlock investment and that better governance of projects would work [...]

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The National Development Project, part 2: Re-defining Good Governance

On July 2, 2011 By

This is a continuation of Part 1: The National Development Project.

Governance is the cornerstone of the Aquino presidency, and this point is brought out by his development plan. Since Public-Private Partnerships which is the Plan’s centerpiece has been around since the mid-80s [...]

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How long is a piece of string?

On June 29, 2011 By

What yardstick are we using to measure P-Noy’s performance?

The arbitrary, rule of thumb of the first year in office is about to come and go for this administration. The obligatory journalistic pieces assessing the president’s performance have consulted the usual suspects.

Political analysts, polling firms and [...]

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