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September 2010 - Launch of the maiden issue of the Focus on the Global South Policy Review

September 19 - In Malaysia will be held the forum called "Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN."  Focus Philippines will make a presentation on "Building a Case for an ASEAN Protocol on Freedom of Information"

September 23 - 26 - Asean People's Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fore more information, please send inquiries to the following: <apfhanoi-pc@aseanpeoplesforum.net>, <apfhanoi-ws@aseanpeoplesforum.net>. Ms Dorothy Guerrero, who is in the Bangkok office of Focus, seats in the Program Committee.

September 27 - October 1 - Freedom of Information Advocacy Week

September 23 - FOI Forum
     
September 27 - R2KRN will visit the Senate to renew the FOI campaign
     
September 28 - R2KRN will meet with Representatives of the Lower House

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Focus on the Philippines this month releases a very timely issue on agrarian reform and rural development. On December 17, the last session of Congress for 2008, Legislators will vote on House Bill 4077, seeking to extend and reform the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. This vote will decide the fate of the unfinished business of agrarian reform in the Philippines, with funding for CARP, land acquisition and distribution as well as the provision of support services to beneficiaries, ending this year. This month's issue includes analyses on CARP performance and the need for meaningful reforms as well as a summary of an alternative agricultural roadmap.

Perspective:Standing on Tenuous Grounds
by Mary Ann Manahan

SocioEcon Monitor: CARP and the Unfinished Business of Agrarian Reform

Development Brief: Subverting Reform By Raising Wrong Development Policy Choices
by Rene E. Ofreneo, Ph.D.

Alternative Agricultural Road Map (AARM): A Summary by Center for Research and Special Studies


  
 
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