RCE-CEBU ENGAGEMENTS: HIGHLIGHTS · RCE strengths despite challenges: •Ongoing Local, global...

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RCE-CEBU ENGAGEMENTS: HIGHLIGHTS

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RCE-CEBU ENGAGEMENTS:HIGHLIGHTS

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HIGHER EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATORY/SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:

•FUNCTIONS AND LOCATIONS

•3 major functions -teaching, research, and, extension or community service.

•Schools not only good in teaching/instruction ( intra-muros ) but should also relate/link classroom/university activities to developments in the community/society ( extra-muros ), addressing local as well as global issues.

Age-gender related issues

Differentially-able issues

coastal resource management

* community health care

* rural and agricultural development

* solid waste management & river

rehabilitation

* appropriate technology and training

* volunteer recruitment and

placement

* political and social advocacy l

* protected area advocacy ( Tañon

Strait )

AREAS

TYPES OF Student and faculty engagements

* service learning – exposure and reflection sessions as components of classroom activities* NSTP through its Civic Welfare Training Service* establishment of community extension services as part of its mission/corporate direction* Creation of learning laboratories/training centers like community hospitals, applied technology centers and outreach stations•Training centers for Local Governance, community development and technology of participation with LGUs, Pos and NGOs as primary clients • Participation in local and global conferences ( Migration Consultation, ESD training programs in Penang, Japan, Barcelona, Thailand, South Korea )•Construction of KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS ( KNOWNETS)•REPORMA ( Resource and Poverty Response Mapping)

1.community organizers/group facilitators2.provision of technical assistance/consultants/

researchers/documentors♦partners of people’s organizations/members of

inter-agency councils♦advocates on specific policy/programs

(ex. Tañon Strait)

SAMPLE FORMS OF ENGAGEMENTS of RCE-CEBU-HEIs:

ENGAGEMENTS

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SAVE TAŇON STRAIT*

*Text and pictures shared by Atty. Gloria Ramos, University of Cebu, Integrated Bar of the Phillippines

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1. Deciding on the Project and Project Site 2. Strategic Planning

4. Coherence Mapping (Partners’ Proposals )3. Project Framework ( combining views, capacities, visions, mission )

Sharing, Expanding WorldsRCE-CEBU At CAMP 7 Forest

5. Back to Forest/LGU. Other local and global Partners ( Camp7 bgyand SK councils, Minglanilla, SWU, USC, CUSW, WRC, NEDA, DENR, others

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Specific goals:

1)mobilising as many stakeholders as

possible through participatory research on

poverty levels and inventory of natural

resources;

2) creation of effective and innovative

knowledge sharing systems including

community baseline maps, inventory data

on resources and resource management

and poverty indicators and poverty

responses as well as good practices; and

3) participatory planning and

implementation of forest conservation,

natural resource management and poverty

alleviation (job creation) activities,

especially through eco-tourism.

Local Government Agencies

MediaCivil Society Business

Academe

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Sustainable Health NetworksWith RCE-Yokohama, Visayas Primary Health and Community Services ( VPHCSI), KASAMA Inc, (reflexotherapy NGO) , SWU

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RCE strengths despite challenges:

•Ongoing Local, global partnerships ( open-ended

linkages of partners ( density), capacities, knowledge

generation/dissemination, practices)

•Challenging / Restructuring of local/global power

relations – dialogic, reflexive, equity-sensitive process

•Gradually constructing a global community vs global

economy/market

•Ensuring not only knowledge of but practice, value, and

collaboration for participatory, and sustainable

development