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

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