Akbayan partylist

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

What is the History of backround of the political party?

 Akbayan, being a coalition project of blocs, groups and individuals belonging
to different Left and progressive traditions, started and has grown with a
strong coalition character.
 On the one hand, it provides wider space and latitude for a pluralist exercise
and consensus building. On the other hand, it remains relatively loose and
slow in responding to challenges, opportunities and threats.
 Akbayan has affiliate groups that represent government employees, women
workers, migrants, as well as members of the LGBT community.
How long has been in existence?
 Since January 1998
Name of the founder.
 Joel Racamora and Jose Maria Sison
Name of the current Political leader.
 President:Maricris Cabreros
 Chairman:Risa Hontiveros
What are the major areas of focus or concern?
 Heath concerns
 Employment concerns
 Education concerns
Advocacy of the partylist
 It necessitates solving dehumanizing poverty and a prevailing sense of
alienation from political institutions that are supposed to protect the
welfare and the rights of all Filipinos.
Impact’s it made in our country.
 The proposal is an assertion that democracy and socialism can only
become a full reality not only by democratizing the state but also by
ensuring an autonomous civil society exercising power and constantly
engaging the state.
Nickname of political party?
 Team Pnoy.
Symbol of the partylist?

Slogan of the partylist

 Akbayan para sa mamamayan.
Concern Issues of Akbayan Partylist
Education

 For AKBAYAN, education is a life-long progression towards the realization of

full human development, the deepening of social consciousness and the
generation of responsible, critical, and dynamic citizens, that should aim to
provide for social and economic mobility towards promoting both individual
and national development.
 AKBAYAN’s critique of the current Philippine model of education is that it
addresses only the required scientific and technological capacities of the
market, thus producing skilled labor power and managerial skills
Health Issue

 AKBAYAN asserts that public health is not a question of market imperatives or

trade, where profit dictates over human development and social equity. Our
agenda is to put public health back in realm of basic rights and human dignity.
The right to health, for AKBAYAN, is as inalienable as the right to life.
 AKBAYAN’s pushing Philippine healthcare system and push for greater State
responsibility; addressing flaws in the devolution of health service; and
attending to a myriad of issues, such as labor migration policies, population
growth and the well-being of mothers and children, access to essential
medicines, prevention through effective community-based and primary health
care, reproductive health, corruption and patronage in healthcare, and patient’s
rights.
Economy

 AKBAYAN emphasizes several key components of its sustainable livelihood

program: complete agrarian reform; the promotion of exports and local
economies, regional integration; the development of market-labor regulations
that strengthen labor standards rather than dismantle them; emphasis on social
dialogue to develop effective responses to the challenges of globalization
 AKBAYAN places at the core of its development platform the goal of decent
work and sustainable livelihood for all. By this we mean work that sustains life
by satisfying human needs and provides leisure as well. It is work that
presupposes the absence of any type of discrimination, and results in positive
and creative contribution to society and to the development of the country.
 To strengthen this program further, AKBAYAN has embarked on in-depth study
of how current macro, monetary, fiscal, trade and other policies have hurt
employment rather than helped it, to identify the policy shifts and reversals that
are needed in order to have a coherent and comprehensive development
framework centered on full employment.