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May-i L. Fabros is a member of WomanHealth Philippines. She works as a freelance communication specialist on the advocacies closest to her heart - women, children, youth, and urban poor rights. She is a staunch believer that everything and anything is possible. Mercedes Fabros is the Advocacy and Campaign coordinator of WomanHealth Philippines. Medical Action Group, Inc., (MAG) has been a service-provider to victims of human rights violations since 1982. MAG actively works together with other human rights organizations to promote peoples’ access to affordable, accessible and quality medicines. Rachael O. Morala is the Deputy Managing Director of the La Liga Policy Institute and Project Manager of the “MDG Pathways” project. Jonathan D. Ronquillo is the Environment Campaigner of the La Liga Policy Institute and the Project Coordinator of the Alternative Budget Initiative - Environment Cluster. Reagan John Gabriel is the Associate Environment Campaigner of the La Liga Policy Institute and Project Assistant of the Alternative Budget Initiative - Environment Cluster. Jessica Reyes-Cantos is the Chief of Staff of Representative Lorenzo Tañada III of the 4th District of Quezon Province. She is the President of the Action for Economic Reforms and a Co-Convenor of Social Watch Philippines. Her other NGO involvements include being a Convenor of Rice Watch and Action Network and the East Asia Rice Working Group; and a member of the Fair Trade Alliance. Jolly S. Lais is among the pioneers of community organizing and development work in the Moro communities in Mindanao and Metro Manila since it started in the 1980’s. He is an active campaigner for peace, and human rights and a campaigner against poverty and inequality. He is currently the Secretary General of Assalam Bangsamoro People’s Association (ABPA), a UNMC partner in Mindanao for the MDG campaign; Lead Convenor of the Bangsamoro Solidarity (BANGSA) - a lobby network of Moro civil society organizations; Lead Convenor of Kapatiran Action for Progress (KAP); Convening Director of Al Fatihah Foundation, Inc.; and Secretary General of Aksyon ng Mamamayang Nagkakaisa (AMANA). Mohammad Musib Buat is a lawyer. He is the former chair of the Technical Committee on Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Panel. He subsequently became a member of the MILF Negotiating Panel during the crafting of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front from 1997-2008. x SOCIAL WATCH PHILIPPINES
FOREWORD By ISAGANI R. SERRANO This report ‘Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report 2010’ produced by Social Watch Philippines is the other report on our country’s progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the prospects of achieving them by 2015. In sharp contrast to the ‘Philippines Fourth Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals 2010’, the most impressive and self-critical government MDG report so far, our shadow report warns that the problem is much more serious than what the government is prepared to admit. Indeed we are urging the government to treat our 2010 MDG baseline as if we have an “MDG crisis” on our hands. The poverty situation is worse in 2010 than when we started on the MDGs in 2000. Many of the quantitative indicators on key goals (MDG 1 on reducing poverty and hunger, MDG 2 on universal primary education, MDG 5 on maternal mortality, MDG 8 on debt, trade and aid) are still between low and medium probability of achievement when they should all be on the high side going into the last fi ve years. Behind the numbers, the inequality picture looks even grimmer. As of 2000, the poor and excluded in 2010, live in rural communities far from Manila—in Bicol, the Vizayas, and Mindanao, many of them women, Muslims, Indigenous Peoples and tribal Filipinos. They probably are still the same landless, homeless, jobless, underemployed, uneducated, sick, malnourished, and discriminated Filipinos of ten years ago although some of them may have moved out of poverty and slid back again. The government has lost the war on poverty in the past decade, not for lack of rhetoric and trying. The policy declarations and national development plans bannered the MDGs. And so did the strategies, programs, activities and projects (PAPs) that were derived from them. An obvious explanation is that the government did not spend enough for the MDGs. But there might be other more basic and less obvious reasons which are rooted in the fl aws of the anti-poverty plans and strategies themselves. Notwithstanding the MDG rhetoric, the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) was an economic growth strategy blueprint which may have reduced poverty at one end only to reproduce it at the other. The outcomes are clear enough. Instead of expansion of job opportunities we saw a growth in the number of jobless and hungry. Instead of universal basic education and health care we fi nd so many left behind. Instead of land reform and asset distribution we got more wealth concentration. Instead of growing out of indebtedness our nation has sunk deeper into debts than before. The specifi c strategies and PAPs, the heroic efforts to catch the fallouts and target the poorest among them provided only temporary relief at best. And these could only be sustained at high costs to taxpayers as fi scal defi cits widened that had to be fi nanced by more borrowings. In the end, there would be more and more poor than we are able to catch and save. The different articles in this alternative report, each in their own way, try to tease out the claimed achievements, dig into the underlying causes of failure to make the sort of progress expected of a middle income country, and suggest ways of catching up and moving beyond the MDGs. The blueprint and strategies need to be re-examined. We have to understand better why until now we continue to fail to reverse the poverty trend, to reduce high inequality, deep-seated corruption, high population growth, and mounting indebtedness. We need to learn how to deal squarely with the structural causes hindering our efforts towards social justice and sustainable development. Keeping the minimalist MDG promises by 2015, or sooner, is an essential step before we could even begin to aspire for higher standards of well-being for all Filipinos. Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report 2010 xi
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Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Many deserve our th
Page 7 and 8: CLEEP Comprehensive Livelihood and
Page 9 and 10: MOA-AD Memorandum of Agreement on A
Page 11: ABOUT THE AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS Leon
Page 17 and 18: An urgent MDG message: Inadequate f
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Page 25 and 26: what we got from Annex I countries
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Page 31 and 32: Losing the war on poverty The Other
Page 33 and 34: Table 1. Philippines’ MDG progres
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Page 46 and 47: MDG Goal 1 Targets 1 and 3: On erad
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seen in both public and private pre
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and therefore, limited coverage. Th
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Table 7. Education Expenditure as a
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Box 2. Education budget tracking (2
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This paper looks at highly vulnerab
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to education. 5 In practice, debt p
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Table 5. Distribution of Government
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Table 7. Average Daily Basic Pay by
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in the 80’s, according to Sibal,
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eports of female OFW deaths, sexual
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Table 13. Trafficked Migrants Assis
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plicating overpopulation and poor w
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CAN$318.8 billion. While they found
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. Women’s economic empowerment i.
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New policies and programs meant to
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Table 2: Immunization Status 1998 2
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Table 4. List of Nutritionally Vuln
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percent), who gave birth at home (9
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protocol is another comprehensive s
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5. Revamping the health insurance s
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Universalizing health care As we po
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Progress of work in improving mater
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Figure 2. Use of Skilled Birth Atte
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In terms of postnatal care, 77 perc
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Abortion Worldwide abortion rates h
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went down from 9.8 percent in 2005
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longer to health care centers in co
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However, USAID, with the concurrenc
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Box 1. Safe Motherhood: a brief his
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The rising challenge of HIV/AIDS an
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Sexual transmission remains to be t
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national response. Since health was
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Figure 7. Frequency distribution of
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Table 5. Annual estimated cost for
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tion of Public-Private Mix Departme
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Not much time, but not without opti
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Questions and more questions on the
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Figure 1: Biodiversity Hotspots Bio
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MDG’s, but more importantly, on b
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8. Organic Agriculture Act of 2010;
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science Bureau (MGB) but funded by
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Problems and gaps Incoherent and cl
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must be able to provide for non-pro
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Trade, debt and aid: MDG retardants
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Table 1. Recent Trade and Investmen
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elated social spending; Three, ille
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eing proposed in Congress. But more
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Results - Developing countries and
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Mindanao situation Mindanao is the
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Table 1.Cohort Survival Rate by Reg
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MTPDP has not gained momentum to ef
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Seven provinces in Mindanao, almost
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a. Lobby for the crafting of laws a
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Moro situation after the Treaty of
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and Palawan movement and Mindanao I
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Appendix B Are the Moros Filipinos?
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Government with respect to the Moro
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legal and political shields behind
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Goals and Targets (from the Millenn
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