Sustaining

Fair of Ideas Partnership

! Towards a
! Renewed
! Development
! Paradigm
! Anchored on
! Faith, Culture,
and Integrity
of Creation

Fair of Ideas
1 March 2016 >>> 10:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m. | 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

MORNING
✜ Strengthening the PEIS System: Plugging the Loopholes
in our Environmental Laws
Addressing Traffic Congestion Problem in the Country
✜ People-led Advocacy on Good Governance and Electoral Reform
✜ “May Forever Ba sa Peace, or Forever na Lang Peace Talks?”
✜ Debunking the Myth on the Path to Development:
The cases of APECO and the Verde Island Passage
✜ Energy: A Most Strategic Resource Part 1
✜ From the Field to the Plate: The Role of Sustainable Agriculture
in Global Food Security and Food Sovereignty
!
!
AFTERNOON
✜ Empowering Women and HOA Leaders for Social Development
✜ Laudato Si: “Anong Say Mo? Ano ang Gawin ng Cluster Ko”
✜ Building Resilient Farming System: Practical Approach
to Climate Change Adaptation
✜ Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the School Curriculum
✜ Energy: A Most Strategic Resource Part 2
✜ Blueink.news
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Strengthening the PEIS System

Plugging the Loopholes in our Environmental Laws
DAVAO | IDIS
One of the most crucial procedures in establishing development projects in any place
in our country is the Environmental Impact Assessment. Because of the loopholes in
environmental laws, many destructive operations as small as resorts, or as huge as
the Sagittarius Mines in Tampakan, South Cotabato were able to confidently operate.
By looking at the Philippine Environmental Impact Statement system (PEIS) and
strengthening its guidelines, maybe the communities and the environment will have
better chance at being protected. Let us hear from the conservationists.
!Will also discuss: Addressing Traffic Congestion Problem in the Country
People-led Advocacy on Good
Governance and Electoral Reform
ZAMBASULI | SAM Ipil
Gualdberto Largo
Good governance and electoral reform is one of the biggest concerns of the Filipino
people in our country. The formation of SILINGAN KA! Or the SIBUGAYNONG LIHOK
NGADTO SA NAGPAKABANANG KATAWHAN as a citizens’ movement for clean elections
and good governance is a sign of hope and empowerment. SILINGAN KA works for
meaningful elections and good governance with activities that covers both the pre-
election and post-election periods. It monitors not only candidates before elections but
also winning candidates after elections to ensure good governance. Discover how
SILINGAN KA, multi-sectoral, interfaith and inter-cultural citizens’, movement carryout the
partisan and trans-partisan advocacy to push for the people’s agenda.

Sustaining Partnership Towards

a Renewed Development
Paradigm Anchored on Faith,
Culture, and Integrity of Creation
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“May Forever Ba sa Peace, o

Forever na Lang Peace Talks?”
(How do we hold on to the CAB, What about the GPH-NDFP peace process?)
NCR-National
The Aquino administration provided venues for the GPH-MILF and GPH-NDFP peace
negotiations to continue. While the GPH-MILF peace process was able to produce the
FAB, the CAB, and the draft BBL as agreed by both parties, the GPH-NDFP has no
progress. Despite some efforts on a “Special Track” and informal peace meetings to
explore ways toward resumption, trust issues have been insurmountable. With the
elections coming, how do we engage the new political leaders, before or after the
elections, to assert the need for peace: a just political settlement with the NDFP, and
full implementation of the CAB?

Debunking the Myth on the Path to

Development: The Cases of APECO
and the Verde Island Passage
SOUTHERN TAGALOG | Bataris Formation Center
and Bukluran para sa Inang Kalikasan

The path to development is not one straight line; it has a lot

of bends and turns and the path often branches out to a lot
more paths. Let us understand the plight of the people of
Aurora and Batangas as they struggle to fight for their rights
and the environment’s against development aggression.

Sustaining Partnership Towards

a Renewed Development
Paradigm Anchored on Faith,
Culture, and Integrity of Creation
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!
!
! Energy: A Most Strategic Resource
!
! Part 1: CENTRAL VISAYAS | Francisco Ferndandez (MORNING)
! Part 2: MISEREOR | Dr. Almuth Schauber (AFTERNOON)
!
! After the Paris Agreement has been duly signed in December 2015, the
! Philippines, like every country in the world, is called to reflect how to align
!
! its climate and energy policies. The Paris Agreement require a bottom-up

! process in every nation. The crucial question is: Which type of action will
! follow? Will the alignments be pro-poor? What is needed to allow space
! for just and affordable energy access and use? But what is good energy?
! What can civil society do to influence policies and monitor the steps the
!
! Government of the Philippines will take after Paris? What could be options

! of PMPI to suggest zero carbon development strategy which supports the

poor and the most vulnerable? What can be done by PMPI to achieve
!
! climate justice and energy justice in the Philippines?
!
! From the Field to the Plate: The Role
! of Sustainable Agriculture in Global
!
! Food Security and Food Sovereignty
!
! MISEREOR | Dr. Felix zu Löwenstein
!
! The number of farms has decreased dramatically over the last 20
! years, as the industrialized farming system promoted by the EU
! and influential players in the food sector impose a strategy on
! farmers: grow or leave! Farmers have the options to specialize
! and industrialize and grow further, and they also have the option
!
!
!
! Sustaining Partnership Towards
! a Renewed Development
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! to develop sustainable farming systems when shifting to organic farming often
combined with other niches, like direct marketing, community-supported farming etc.
How can we preserve our natural resources? What interest could there be for promoting
organic agriculture – on the level of farming families, rural and urban communities/
consumers and the Governments? What is the experience made in the Philippines with
organic production methods? The workshop will provide both Filipinos and Europeans
awareness of the discussion of and of practical experiences with organic farming
practices.

AFTERNOON
Empowering Women and HOA
Leaders for Social Dovelopment
NCR-Urban

One of the many goals of university extension

services is to help communities help themselves out
of poverty by bringing back the dignity of
community leaders, especially women, to participate
in community development. Now, many leaders/
servants render and serve their communities and
country in a more effective way. Learn how the
program of University of Adamson School of
Governance for Social Development was able to
help empower the leaders from the Northville and
Southville Relocation Sites.

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a Renewed Development
Paradigm Anchored on Faith,
Culture, and Integrity of Creation
Fair of Ideas AFTERNOON

Laudato Si: Ano ang Say Mo?

Anong ang Gawin ng Cluster Ko?
DAVAO CLUSTER

Building a Resilient
Farming System:
Practical Approach to
Climate Change
Adaptation
CABUSTAM | MASIPAG Mindanao
Geonathan Barro

In all communities hit by any climate-

associated events, food has always been
a problem. The phenomena happening
now is the “new normal”, which forces us
to seek ways to survive by making our
farming and food production system
become adaptive to these changes. Let
the small farmers share with us easy to
do approaches on agriculture-based
adaptation measures.

Sustaining Partnership Towards

a Renewed Development
Paradigm Anchored on Faith,
Culture, and Integrity of Creation
 Fair of Ideas AFTERNOON
!
Mainstreaming Biodiversity
in the School Curriculum
CENTRAL VISAYAS | Soil and Water
Conservation Foundation
Aida M. Granert

The Soil and Water Conservation Foundation will present how

research, the establishment of biodiversity center, and
integration of biodiversity in the Department of Education’s
curriculum log plan facilitates the mainstreaming of biodiversity
in Bohol.

Blueink.news
CENTRAL VISAYAS | PECOJON
Ed Karlon N. Rama, National Coordinator

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on relevant issues around conflict, disaster risk reduction, and
sustainable development goals among many others.

Sustaining Partnership Towards

a Renewed Development
Paradigm Anchored on Faith,
Culture, and Integrity of Creation