Constructive Engagement

An effective and sound public sector depends on the existence of organized civil groups and sustained citizen involvement in the public realm. The extent and quality of this involvement depends largely on how government and citizen groups regard each other. When government and stakeholders regard each other with trust, they can become more effective partners in governance and development.

ANSA EAP seeks to create the space for citizen groups and government to work together using culturally appropriate tools and approaches to enable stakeholders to fulfill their mandates.

Bantay Lansangan Constructive Engagement Workshop

In line with its strategic directions, ANSA-EAP in partnership with the Bantay Lansangan (Road Watch) or BL program of the Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN) designed and conducted 2 workshops on constructive engagement and consensus-building for governance reform. The workshop aims was to engage participants in the value of consensus building among key actors involving government...

The “Workshop on Enhancing Local Planning-Budgeting Link through Social Accountability” was aimed at impressing upon the participants the value of social accountability (SAc) in enhancing the link of local planning and budgeting processes towards improved development and governance outcomes. Participants in the workshop were the LGU staff and personnel of the Municipality of...

Public Performance Monitoring: Regional...

Twenty-three social accountability practitioners from Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, East Timor, and the Philippines completed the Regional Learning Event on Community Scorecard and Citizen Report Card held on August 3-7, 2011 in Holiday Inn (Silom), Bangkok, Thailand. ANSA-EAP, in collaboration with ANSA South Asia, conducted the activity in line with the former’s efforts to promote...

Key Stakeholder Groups in Benguet Buy Into...

On October 26 and 27, representatives of 3 key stakeholder groups – Indigenous communities from Benguet (barangay Ampucao, Itogon and barangay Camp 3 in Tuba), local governments, CSO's, and Philex Mining Company, participated in a workshop organized by ANSA-EAP. Held at the Maryknoll Ecological Center in Campo Sioco, Baguio City, the workshop aimed for the participants to understand and...

The workshop was part of G-Watch's "Training on G-Watch as a Social Accountability Approach" from April 2-9, 2011.  ANSA-EAP was given 2 days for a constructive engagement workshop. The aim of the workshop was to engage participants in the value of social accountability and constructive engagement between government and civil society, and how these are linked to the initiatives of...