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Philippine CSOs Present Position at Multistakeholders Forum on Aid Effectiveness 

Manila - Last June 2, Philippine Civil Society Organizations represented by AidWatch Philippines and the Council for People’s Development and Governance (CPDG) were able to present their statement for the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which will happen on November 29-December 1 this year, in the Multi-stakeholders forum on aid effectiveness.

In the statement presented by Jazminda Lumang of AidWatch, the CSOs call on government and development partners to, in summary:

  1. Give emphasis on the agency of citizens, communities and marginalized groups in constructing their own paths to development.
  2. Commit to and implement rights-based approaches to development focusing their attention to the most marginalized people and people living in poverty; ensuring inclusive participation and empowerment and upholding of the right to development; promote and implement gender equality and women’s rights; and implement a decent work (and decent wage) agenda.
  3. Affirm and ensure the participation of the full diversity of CSOs in the Philippines as independent development actors in their own right in development cooperation processes through the enactment of House Bill 3230; recognize the Istanbul Principles; and, commit to creating an enabling environment for CSOs for them to reach their full potential as development actors.
  4. Work for an inclusive Busan Compact for Development Effectiveness at the HLF IV that is consistent with human rights conventions and covenants involving all stakeholders; recognize CSOs, social partners and grass roots organizations as full members in the formal structures of a new development architecture; and, create an equitable and inclusive multi-stakeholders forum for policy dialogue enabling and supporting situations.
    Aside from AidWatch, CPDG and the Reality of Aid’s Country Outreach Program, several CSOs were also in attendance. For a copy of the full statement, please go to this link: http://aidwatch-phils.blogspot.com/2011/06/philippine-csos-statement-on-road-to.html

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