Developing a pro-citizen app
IT HAS BEEN many years since I left the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO), but up to now,...
The politics of waste management
IT HAS been many years since the advocacy for the environment was started. Many of my friends in the movement have already died, and...
Jeepneys looking like minibuses
OVER THE years, we have already learned that what walks like a duck and talks like a duck is not necessarily a duck.
As a...
Alternatives to ancestral domain titles
THERE appears to be many indigenous tribes that do not have their own Certificates of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) yet, for one reason or...
Shuttle buses for housing projects
I REMEMBER that it was my mentor, the late Jose Conrado “Joly” Benitez who told me that in many developed countries, the housing programs...
Strategies to fight malnutrition, stunting
MANY popular medical associations define a “baby” as the age of a child from birth to four years old.
I am inclined to accept that...
More active regional development councils
IN FAIRNESS to the Regional Development Councils (RDCs), I would rather say that they are not doing enough to publicize what they are doing,...
Innovative Supreme Court programs
ALTHOUGH there is supposed to be a strict separation of powers between the Judicial Branch and the Executive Branch, it does not hurt to...
Measuring student performance
WHY DOES it always come as a surprise to us whenever the Philippines scores low in the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) rating...
Why does it take 11 years to become an architect?
IS ANYONE in the two houses of Congress monitoring and keeping track of the overall impact of several laws as these are passed over...