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Box 2. Education budget tracking (2008-2009) The DepEd is the biggest government agency, employing over half a million teachers and non- teaching personnel and serving more than 20 million students. Every year, billions of pesos worth of inputs and services are procured such as textbooks, armchairs, teaching materials and food, and the construction of school buildings and even the hiring of consultants for various projects. Being a centralized bureaucracy faced with immense work, the DepEd has diffi culty in ensuring effi cient use of resources and quality of services. Ineffi ciencies and wastages were observed in the budget tracking initiative undertaken by E-Net Philippines jointly with Social Watch Philippines. A case in point is in teacher hiring. While the government devotes funds for additional teachers to lower the pupil-teacher ratio, delays in the hiring of new teachers are usual. Based on the budget tracking, teachers were hired only towards the end of the year. The school administrators explained that this was due to the long 11-step process in hiring teachers. Sometimes, the delay in the hiring was done deliberately to generate savings from the unspent salaries of teachers yet to be hired. These savings could then be used to augment teachers’ end-of-year bonuses. Similarly, the DepEd has been questioned in the past years for controversial procurements of textbooks. One alleged irregularity involved the purchase of erroneous textbooks for Filipino and Social Studies for grades 1-5, which was part of the 12 million textbooks purchased with funds from the World Bank. References ADB Statistical Data Base System & IMF Government Finance. January 2008. ASPBAE (Asia South Pacifi c Association for Basic and Adult Education). 2007. Mapping Out Disadvantaged Groups in Education. Education Watch Reports, Philippines summary report. Dakar Framework for Action. 2000. Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments. Adopted by the World Education Forum. Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April. http://www.unesco. org/education/wef/en-conf/dakframeng.shtm. Delors, J., In’am, A. M., Amagi, I., et al. 1996. Learning: The Treasure Within. Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century. Paris. www. unesco.org/delors/. DepEd (Department of Education). Factsheet, Basic Education Statistics (School Years 1990/1991 – 2007/2008). IDMC. October 2009. Cycle of confl ict and neglect. Mindanao’s displacement and protection crisis. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council. www.internaldisplacement.org Manasan, R. G. 2007. Financing the Millennium Development Goals: The Philippines (Final Report). United Nations Development Programme. NSCB – Child Development Index www.nscb.gov.ph National Statistics Offi ce and ORC Macro. 2004. National Demographic and Health Survey 2003. Calverton, Maryland. National Statistics Offi ce and ICF Macro. 2009. National Demographic and Health Survey 2008. Calverton, Maryland. 52 SOCIAL WATCH PHILIPPINES The food for school program is another case of a wasted initiative that had a large fund allocation but was poorly conceptualized and badly implemented with many irregularities, thus, rendering the project ineffective. School nutritionists doubted the effectiveness of the program given the short duration of implementation, irregular rice delivery schedules and the limited quantity of rice distributed to the pupils. In several cases, rice deliveries occurred late in the school year when pupils had already dropped out of school. The impact of the program in terms of improving nutrition and pupil performance and in reducing drop-out rates is questionable particularly because of the absence of a monitoring system. These noted weaknesses of the program led the new administration to cancel the program, but only after wasting several billions in much needed resources. The School Based Management (SBM) grant aims to support efforts of schools and divisions towards improvement as part of the decentralization efforts and school empowerment process. However, delays in the release of funds from the SBM grant amounting to a total of Php 500 million were also monitored by E-Net. For example, the SBM funds for 2007 were released only in the last week of December 2007. Considering the processes involved, paper requirements in government purchasing and the corresponding time needed in disbursing funds, all these made utilization of the SBM within the fi scal year very diffi cult. Problems in the management funds are threatening the implementation of the plan to empower schools. These are but a few examples that refl ect ineffi ciencies and the poor governance of the education in the country. NSO, LCC, and DepEd. 2005. 2003 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) Final Report. Manila. “Philippines Fourth Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).” Third Draft, July 2010 (n.p.) Raya, R. 2010. “Investing in the Out-of-School.” Philippine Institutions: growth and Prosperity for All. Sta. Ana III, Filomeno (Ed.). Action for Economic Reforms. Quezon City. Republic of the Philippines. 2009. Republic Act No. 9524, General Appropriations Act Fiscal Year 2009. http://www.dbm.gov. ph/index.php?pid=8&xid=28&id=989. Republic of the Philippines. 2008. Republic Act No. 9498, General Appropriations Act Fiscal Year 2008. http://www.dbm.gov. ph/index.php?pid=8&xid=28&id=461 Republic of the Philippines. 2007. Republic Act No. 9401, General Appropriations Act Fiscal Year 2007.http://www.dbm.gov. ph/index.php?pid=8&xid=28&id=38&page= Republic of the Philippines. 2005. Republic Act No. 9336, General Appropriations Act Fiscal Year 2005.http://www.dbm.gov. ph/index.php?pid=8&xid=28&id=39&page= UNESCO. 2007. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008. Education for All by 2015: Will We Make It? Paris. UNESCO. 2008. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009. Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters. Paris. UNESCO. 2009. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010. Reaching the marginalized. Paris. UNESCO and UNICEF. 2005. Children Out of School, Measuring Exclusion from Primary Education. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Filipino women in the lead-up to the 2015 MDG deadline � By MAE V. BUENAVENTURA Summary As state party to the Women’s Convention and all other core international human rights conventions, the Philippines is often commended as being well ahead of its Asian neighbors when it comes to the realm of women’s human rights. This view has strengthened over the years with the country’s adoption of other international commitments, such as the Millennium Development Goals. The ultimate bar of success though, lies in how these pledges play out domestically. Some steps in harmonization have certainly contributed in improving Filipino women’s lives, such as increased participation in basic education and in formal labor. Gender inequalities, however, stubbornly persist, challenging the gains women may have won from realizing these targets. Large gaps endure in productive and social reproductive labors. Women’s presence is insignifi cant in spheres of political decision-making. Violence against women, manifesting entrenched discriminations against them, persists. Winning the Numbers, Losing the War: The Other MDG Report 2010 53
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Many deserve our th
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CLEEP Comprehensive Livelihood and
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MOA-AD Memorandum of Agreement on A
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTORS Leon
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FOREWORD By ISAGANI R. SERRANO This
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Box 1. Safe Motherhood: a brief his
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a. Lobby for the crafting of laws a
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Goals and Targets (from the Millenn
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