INVITATION from ASoG-PODER | Reforms: What Have We Achieved and How Can it Be Sustained | August 1, 2013 | 1:00 - 4:30 pm

[Isel V. de Guzman - Ateneo]

 Dear ASOG MPM students,

The Ateneo School of Government, through its Political Democracy and Reform Program, 

with the support of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, invites you to the following event:

Elections Under Repair 3.0 (Sustaining Reform Gains Through Political and Electoral Reform)

First Forum

Reforms: What Have We Achieved and How Can it Be Sustained?

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | 1:00pm - 4:30pm

Ateneo School of Government Building (Pacifico Ortiz Hall)

Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Speakers:

1. Ms. Tanya Hamada, Executive Director, INCITEGov

2. Ms. Karen Tañada, Executive Director, GZO Peace Institute

3. Ms. Divina Luz Lopez, National Coordinator, PhilDHRRA

RSVP:

920-2920, 426-6001 local 4644, 0906-2759738

political...@yahoo.com

Look for Jake Riel E. Ogana

The Aquino administration won the 2010 elections under the platform of reforms and so far there have been significant victories achieved, particularly in the budget, local governance, peace and anti-corruption. However, given the fragility and underdevelopment of institutions in the country, reforms would have difficulty achieving their desired ends of political transformation and social change and may easily beoverturned without a political project that will set up the needed institutional-legal backbone that will support such reforms and that will provide a leadership beyond the 2016 elections that will usher the gains forward.

 

The Ateneo School of Government under its Political Democracy and Reforms (PODER) program is back this year with the third round of Elections Under Repair (EUR) Series with the theme “Sustaining Reform Gains Through Political and Electoral Reform.” EUR 3.0 will try to problematize the link of governance reforms and elections and the critical role of reform in the Philippine electoral system and the development of party politics in sustaining whatever gains have been achieved by the current administration.

 

The first EUR forum with the title “Reforms: What Have We Achieved and How Can it Be Sustained?” will introduce the EUR series  topic with a general stock-taking of the reforms so far achieved in anti-corruption, local governance and peace and will throw initial thoughts on how these reforms can be sustained beyond 2016. 

  

We look forward to your participation. 

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