RCE-CEBU ENGAGEMENTS: HIGHLIGHTS · RCE strengths despite challenges: •Ongoing Local, global...
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RCE-CEBU ENGAGEMENTS:HIGHLIGHTS
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
SAVE TAŇON STRAIT*
*Text and pictures shared by Atty. Gloria Ramos, University of Cebu, Integrated Bar of the Phillippines
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
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
Sustainable Health NetworksWith RCE-Yokohama, Visayas Primary Health and Community Services ( VPHCSI), KASAMA Inc, (reflexotherapy NGO) , SWU
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