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Most of the people who let their consciousness be rocked that night were students and those affiliated with NGOs. A post-concert CD was released by UPCWS and circulated among women’s groups. WFS goes CEDAW For WFS to get on board with CEDAW, they formed a group, which led up to consultation and planning sessions for “The Four-Year Communications Plan” with the regions. Dubbed the WFS CEDAW Team, they attended a two-day Orientation and Planning meeting in Manila around October 2005. Speakers were then Executive Directors Gigi Francisco of Women and Gender Institute (WAGI) and Zeny Borlongan of the Women’s Legal Bureau (WLB). They introduced CEDAW to an audience of WFS writers based in Bicol, the Visayas and Mindanao. This session produced action plans with specific dates and budgets for the regional consultation and media forum in four regions and initial core messages. Regional consultations and media forums took place in Davao, Cebu and Naga City in December 2005. The programme was designed to make the participants aware of women’s rights issues or discrimination prevalent in their region as a gateway to CEDAW. WFS also took the opportunity to consult local participants from media, local government and civil society on the CEDAW national core message. This was followed by a training for local media on “How to tell a CEDAW story”, with story planning workshops for both print and broadcast. The Four-Year Communications Plan 2005 marked the first year of preparation and planning for “The Four-Year Communications Plan.” Along with media training and NGO orientation, this rekindled the MediaLinks bonds in an effort to build the CEDAW network. Regional slogans from Manila, Baguio, Bicol, Cebu and Mindanao were also imperative in placing CEDAW in proper context. By the second year (2006), the multimedia component was implemented. Information was spread through print features and discussions on radio and tv as a way of making the public aware of the rights of women, and that CEDAW is out there to protect these rights. Year three of the Plan called for contests for slogans and poster-making for CEDAW to penetrate high schools and colleges, in both public and private schools to target the youth. WFS in Naga, however, got ahead of the plan by holding a radio plug contest among media students in a university in 2006, and the winning entries were used for radio exposures (see Radio days). Year four was supposed to launch the CEDAW report card, a monitoring scheme for students to “grade” their local government on CEDAW implementation. This, 134
however, was not supported by the CEDAW Philippine Programme, deeming monitoring better handled by NCRFW and NGOs. Instead, WFS was commissioned to produce IEC materials for NCRFW, namely the “2007 CEDAW Planner” and the book “Shaping the Global Women’s Agenda”, which featured Filipino women in the UN and the history of CEDAW. The WFS was commissioned by UNIFEM to undertake a synthesis documention and publication of the four-year experience of the CEDAW South East Asia Programme in the Philippines. WFS organized its team of documentors who closely collaborated with CEDAW SEAP partners, with invaluable inputs from the National Coordinator, in coming up with real nuts and bolts of the various projects. Multimedia campaign Radio days From 2005-2006, CEDAW hit the airwaves nationwide. The generous number of emails, text messages and phone-ins that radio stations received were proof that Filipinos were psyched to know that it’s out there. Even via shortwave frequencies 12.015, 15.270, and 15.120 MHZ, pre-taped interviews with Janet Bayan in “Ang Inyong Lingkod” were aired in countries like the US, South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the target audience being OFWs. And the audience responded through email. Manila Women’s Month 2006: for two weeks, Anchor Georgia Cotaoco of WAVE 89.1 dished out fast facts about CEDAW and women’s rights in her programme. She held a contest, giving away WFS “Body and Soul” books as prizes. A few other radio shows organized by Sylvia Hubilla of WFS also tackled CEDAW in relation to the protection of Filipina migrant workers and women’s health. In “Una sa Lahat Pinoy!”, Ambassador Rosario Manalo, then head of the UN CEDAW Committee, explained via phone patch how the Philippines rated as far as compliance with CEDAW is concerned and where we stood compared to other States Parties in the region. Naga Josefina B. Capiral of the WFS team and head of the Naga City Council for Women made the rounds in Naga’s radio programmes, in efforts to popularize CEDAW. She rifled through the following topics: localizing CEDAW through various strategies, and how CEDAW can be a concrete handle in resolving discriminatory experiences through the city’s women’s council initiatives. Capiral also managed to get student leaders to help WFS popularize CEDAW. She spearheaded a CEDAW radio tag contest among media students of Ateneo de Naga. The winning radio plugs were used in different radio guestings. 135
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