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Message On the Launch of UNDAF 2012-2018

Isagani R. Serrano
Co-convenor, Social Watch Philippines (SWP)
President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)
28 November 2011

Once more we commend the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) for producing the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2012-2018 for the Republic of the Philippines. We commend the UNCT for its efforts to help our country meet outstanding international commitments to sustainable human development. Likewise, credit goes to the Aquino administration for its leadership and cooperation in the whole process.

Rural Folks, Indigenous Peoples try on PCOS Machines

MANILA, Philippines
19 February 2010

MANILA, Philippines – With less than three months to go before the country embarks on its first ever national-level automated elections, a group of farmers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, and community leaders were presented with a Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machine that will be used during the May 10, 2010 national and local polls.

The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), the country’s oldest NGO, along with its partners the Citizens’ Movement for Good Governance (CMGG), organized a “Voter Education Forum and the Automated Election Systems” last February 19, 2010 at the PRRM National Headquarters.

PRRM Statement on the Lozada Exposé

“LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD AND THE NATION BE FREE” The revelations of Rodolfo Noel Lozada, Jr. in an early morning press conference and in the subsequent Senate hearing exposed and illustrated the depths to which the GMA administration has gone in order to pursue its agenda of greed and power. As their machinations clearly [...]

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