Open Doors 2012: Day 3 pictures

UNMASK: ANSA-EAP Masquerade Ball

Open Doors 2012: Day 2 pictures

Open Doors 2012: Day 1 pictures

Open Doors 2012: Highlights of the first day

During the WELCOME REMARKS (A. Gregorio-Medel, ANSA-EAP), we heard how ANSA-EAP is fueled by dynamic partnerships with practitioners:

• Since its inception in 2008, ANSA-EAP has been welcoming novel ideas from citizen partners, including the young.
• The sustainability of governance reform rests on dynamic and constructive partnerships. Like “mabuhay! (long live!)”, the Filipino greeting used to welcome friends, ANSA-EAP has been aiming to give life to multistakeholder partnerships between and among government, civil society, and citizens in its four priority countries—Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines—and in the other countries in the region.
• At this juncture, the network is wrapping up its entry phase and transitioning to a more dynamic state (consolidation phase). Four years is too short to give life to the social accountability mission.
• The network stands on the shoulders of its partners. Together, we continue to approximate the vision of a better world through social accountability (SAc).

Bantay Eskwela

Bantay Eskwela is an initiative of Procurement Watch, Incorporated (PWI), which signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Education to take procurement monitoring to the grassroots level. It aims to safeguard not just the quantity, but also the quality of school furniture in public schools.

PWI tapped the Parent’s-Teacher’s Associations, especially their presidents, to make up the core of its volunteers. PWI trained this group on the basics of procurement monitoring, especially at the points of tendering, pre- and actual delivery, providing them with the forms and templates used for actual monitoring. These forms include the purchase orders, order forms and delivery forms.