The project “Strengthening the Capacity of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and Other Civil Society Organizations Towards Effective Civil Society-Local Government Engagement and Improved Government Accountability for Persons with Disabilities, Especially Children in the Cities of Parañaque and Taguig, and the Municipality of Pateros” – or Project SCOPE – aims to build the capacities of organizations for persons-with-disabilities especially children on the Child-Centered Social Accountability (CCSA) approach. Project SCOPE is jointly undertaken by Save the Children Philippines (SCP), the Norfil Foundation, and Life Haven: Center for Independent Living. It is funded by the European Council. Through Project SCOPE, organizations of persons-with-disabilities (OPDs) and other local CSOs are using social accountability approaches to participate in inclusive policy-making towards contributing to good governance for people with disabilities, especially girls and boys, in the Cities of Parañaque and Taguig and the Municipality of Pateros. The aim is to empower children and adults with disabilities, and their parents and caregivers, to organize and strengthen core groups, teach them about their rights, learn to demand for inclusive government information and services, actively participate in decision-making, and advocate and lobby for disability-inclusive and gender-sensitive policies. ANSA-EAP is the main partner of SCP in implementing Project SCOPE in the three project areas.   PICTURES:

1. Agenda-Building and Action Planning Workshop: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ARCeJsufvauAWVcN8HaDw7hLeiEtSRiz?usp=sharing
2. Data-Gathering and Coaching Workshop: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PFC-1jUW_2L3hORJpi-CCeY6yZZAiEVJ?usp=sharing
3. LGU Orientation on Child-Centered Social Accountability: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8xTSJGgTD6WKte6JdGDHsn4NVBa_Ywl?usp=sharing

Project SCOPE

ANSA-EAP promotes transparency and social accountability in public school service delivery in the Philippines through the checkmyschool.org initiative. It is being implemented in close partnership with the Department of Education.

Checkmyschool.org contains school information on enrolment, budget, teachers, textbooks, seats, achievement test results, among others.

Interactive features, such as text messaging, social networking, and polling, are also made available for school stakeholders to send feedback and comments. These are being consolidated and sent to concerned Department of Education authorities.

Current information in the website came from various offices, such as the Basic Education Information System (BEIS), Physical Facilities and Schools Engineering Division (PFSED), Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (IMCS), Procurement Service (PS), National Education Testing and Research Center (NETRC), and Budget Office. Checkmyschool.org will rely on community volunteers to update the initial sets of information in the site.

The Checkmyschool.org maps schools using the Global Positioning System (GPS). It also provides online platform for various education initiatives, such as the textbook deliveries and disaster risk assessment for schools.

The tagline “Promoting transparency and social accountability, one school at a time!” encapsulates the strategy to make education information relevant in a concrete way. It means facilitating response to a school issue through the collective efforts of government, community, civil society and private sector stakeholders.

Visit: www.checkmyschool.org for more details.

Checkmyschool Philippines

Geotagging is a cost-effective way of using GPS technology and web-based mapping to aid project monitoring and supervision. By simply taking photos, projects sites are easily and accurately plotted on an online map, enabling government authorities to “virtually” monitor and evaluate progress in the projects, with minimal need for physical visit to hard-to-reach areas. With a GPS enabled android cellphone, free downlodable applications and computer with internet access, civil society can help ensure that government infrastructure projects are delivered the soonest possible time and with the desired quality. Related Websites i-Geotag page in the Department of Agriculture's Philippine Rural Development Project   Related Documents Documentation Report for Geotagging 101 (June 20, 2014) Related Links: Technology for transparency PFMP supports Participatory Audit of Farm-to-Market Roads in Palawan First of three geotagging workshops held ABS-CBN's Lingkod Kapamilya to use geo-tagging DA-PRDP boosts gov’t transparency through CSO partnership DA-PRDP introduces geotagging for project monitoring to CSOs Geotagging 101 *Photo “Geotagging is awesome.” is copyright (c) 2012 by James Whatley and made available under a Attribution 2.0 license.

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