CFLI Project
This short-term project, which was supported by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), was implemented recently, from November 2013-February 2014. It included the conduct of education/orientation sessions on local legislation and policy formulation in the areas of human rights promotion and protection, resource management, environmental protection, and gender responsiveness, and on the venues for people’s participation in local governance. Three sessions were conducte
Improving Governance to Reduce Poverty: Access to Justice for the Poor
In 2001, the Supreme Court and the European Commission (EC) delegation to the Philippines initially discussed the possibility of an EC grant to fund activities in line with the Action Program for Judicial Reform (APJR). In 2003, the SC Project: Access to Justice for the Poor Project was approved by the EC and the Government of the Philippines. Later, the Supreme Court was replaced by the Department of Social Welfare and Development as Executing Authority.The project’s main object
Defend the Defenders Program
The Defend the Defenders Program or the Program for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Defenders Working on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a funding mechanism for activities that seek to protect the country's defenders of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) against threatened or actual abuses and rights violations that they encounter in relation to their advocacy work. The Defend the Defenders Program supports local strategies for the protection of human right
The Peace Council Report on the Bangsamoro Basic Law
independent Peace
Community-Based Dialogue Sessions on Human Rights Promotion and Protection
improvement of the Human Rights
The Justice Reform Agenda of the Poor and Marginalized
justice reform agenda
Research on the Poor Accessing Justice and the ALG as JusticeReform Advocate
impact of strengthening the Alternative Law Groups (ALG)
