National Challenges in Sustainable

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National Challenges in Sustainable Development
Education Perspectives from the Enhanced
Philippine Agenda 21
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PRESENTATION FLOW

• Background/Introduction
• - Philippine Agenda 21
• - Process of Updating PA 21
• - Present Form of Updated PA 21
• Education Initiatives in the Updated PA 21
• Next Steps in the Updating of PA 21

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BACKGROUND

• 1987 Constitution
• Approved Adoption of the Philippine Strategy for
  Sustainable Development (PSSD) in 1989
• Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (July 1992)

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• Earth Summit Commitments
• Creation of the Philippine Council for
  Sustainable Development through Executive Order
  No. 15
• Formulation of the Philippine Agenda 21 in 1996
  through Memorandum Order No. 288

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PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21
THE NATIONAL AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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THE PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21 (PA21)

• The PHILIPPINE AGENDA 21 is part of the countrys
  response to fulfill its commitments in the
  historic Earth Summit in 1992 where government
  and key sectors of society agreed to implement an
  action agenda for sustainable development.

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KEY FEATURES OF PA 21
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PA21 FORMULATION PROCESS

• Iterative process of multi-
• stakeholders consultations

• Signing of people covenant

• Presidents Adoption of PA21

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• KEY ELEMENTS
• Issues/Concerns
• Strategy/Action Agenda
• Targets
• Timetable
• Institutions Involved

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• THE PA21 ACTION AGENDA
• Across Ecosystem
• Specific Ecosystems
• Forest/Upland
• Freshwater
• Lowland/Agriculture
• Minerals/Mines
• Urban
• Biodiversity
• - Coastal/Marine

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KEY ACTORS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CIVIL SOCIETY
GOVERNMENT
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS
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ESSENTIAL DIMENSIONS OF SOCIETY IN RELATION TO
NATURE, HUMAN BEING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN BEING
CULTURE (Civil Society)
POLITY (Government)
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SOCIETY
ECONOMY (Business)

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What have we done so far?
Secretariat Facilitated
Govt. Review 8-9 August 2001
Luzon Regional Review 7-8 January 2002
Civil Society Review 3-5 July 2001
Visayas Regional Review 19-20 Nov. 2001
Core Group Workshop 7-8 Dec. 2000
Experts Meeting 24 June 2002
Mindanao Regional Review 29-30 October 2001
Business Sector Review 18 May 2001
International SD Workshop 28-29 March 2001
To No. 2
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PA 21 REVIEW PROCESS
Secretariat and PCSD Committee Facilitated
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C C M R D
PCSD
From No. 1
Next Steps
SEC
C M I
Writeshop Enhanced PA21 15-17 Jan.2003
National Workshop 23-24 July 2002
PCSD
SEC
C S E D
PRESENTATION TO THE PRES.
SEC
C S R M G
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Present Form of Updated PA 21
UPDATED PA 21 KEY ELEMENTS

• Poverty Reduction
• Social Equity
• Empowerment and Good Governance
• Peace and Solidarity
• Ecological Integrity

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Education Initiatives in the Updated PA 21

• Peace and Solidarity
• Integrate human rights and
• International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
• education into regular curriculum of
• schools and training of security and
• defense agencies

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• Poverty Reduction
• Strengthen safety nets for workers
• displaced by economic
• restructuring, including repatriated
• OFWs e.g. job counseling centers,
• reskilling and retraining programs in
• place to cover all regions and
• provinces for all services.

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• Social Equity
• Ensure access of children to a full 10 years of
  quality basic education
• Increase construction of school building (in
  areas in need of school buildings) and community
  learning centers, especially in upland barangays
• Improve access to basic education through the
  multi-grade system or the alternative learning
  system especially in remote and indigenous
  communities and other hard-to-reach population

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C. Continuous upgrading of teachers skills and
enhancing culture sensitive curriculum encourage
training of local teachers especially from
indigenous as well as muslim communities D. Make
non-formal education easily available to
drop-outs and other adults, as well as other
disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and E.
Upgrade the public education system for muslim
communities.
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• Make higher education more available and
  accessible to the population
• Encourage the private sector to establish more
  colleges and vocational schools in the provinces
  through appropriate incentives but ensuring as
  well as that standards are kept
• Expand access to quality higher education
  programs among the poor but deserving
• Strengthen higher education delivery systems

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D. Fully implement the Expanded Tertiary
Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program
E. Set in place an effective coordinating
mechanisms to harmonize cross-cutting issues on
resource allocation, administrative jurisdiction,
supervising functions over schools, program
development and tuition fee matters and F.
Improve good governance through performance
accountability and transparency, providing
opportunities for students to participate in
decisions affecting them.
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Ensure effective coordination, planning and
allocation of scarce resources among the three
sectors of education and training. Promote and
mainstream gender equality in all programs,
projects, and activities of government especially
in muslim areas and indigenous people. Provide
access to basic services such as education and
health nutrition as well as basic amenities such
as energy, safe water and sanitation.
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• Ecological integrity
• Design and conduct information dissemination
  advocacy programs to enhance collaboration of
  multi-sectoral stakeholders, beneficiary groups
  as well as the general public relative to SD
  programs, and their implementing laws, especially
  in relatively unfamiliar concerns such as,
  biotechnology, through the media and academic
  institutions.
• Integrate SD and PA 21 in the academic
  curriculum at all level.

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Make media and the church active partners in
building a culture of sustainability through
capability building programs on responsible
pro-active media reporting and advocacy of SD and
PA 21. Conduct/expand technical assistance
programs to LGUs, NGOs, line agencies for SD
related initiatives especially for building
specific SD related technical expertise as well
as developing skills in such support system areas
as databanking, monitoring, information
dissemination.
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• Empowerment and Good Governance
• Strengthen public education as the anchor of
  good governance in government, business and civil
  society
• Trade/Globalization
• Narrow the inter- and intra-national divide
• ? Design appropriate incentives to make
  digital technology and services accessible
• ? Integrate and use ICT in academic curricula
  and modes of instruction

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Develop and improve human capital through
investments in appropriate education and
training ? Build a culture of productivity and
developing a strong local workforce to make
Philippine industries more competitive ?
Conduct trainings to produce internationally
competitive/highly qualified/world-class Filipino
workers, e.g. seafarers, caregivers, call center
personnel
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• Replicate TESDA/TLRC training programs in various
  sub-national educational centers

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NEXT STEPS IN UPDATING PA 21

• Presentation to the PCSD
• Presentation to the President

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