About the Program
The Angat Bayi Political Empowerment Fellowship (AB PEF) is a component of the Angat Bayi Women’s Political Empowerment Program, a comprehensive program that will encourage women, young and old alike, to be politically active and develop their skills and capacities on feminist leadership.
The program will develop a political school that will contribute to the full, meaningful, and effective political participation of women towards a people-centered, rights-based, gender-transformative, participatory, empowering, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development. The courses/ programs to be developed will focus on feminist leadership; inclusive, rights-based, and good governance; building and protecting democratic institutions, and processes; and active citizenship.
Program’s Objectives
The Angat Bayi Women’s Political Empowerment Program aims to:
- Develop aspiring women leaders and support current women leaders in the city or municipal level who will carry and advance a people-centered, rights-based, gender-transformative, participatory, empowering, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development agenda;
- Help build capacity of these women on the following: (1) feminist leadership; (2) inclusive, rights-based, democratic, and good governance; (3) building and protecting democratic institutions and processes; and (4) promotion of active citizenship;
- Identify one or two pilot area/s for the organization and mobilization of grassroots women who will support chosen fellows running for re-election or planning to run for higher office;
- Establish a mentoring, mutual learning, and network building mechanism that will serve as support for female public servants;
- Come up with a research study that will identify the needs, issues, and concerns of current and aspiring woman leaders which will result in a policy brief.
To achieve these objectives, the project will be divided into five (5) program areas such as the Capacity Building Program; Mentoring, Mutual Learning, and Networking Building Program; Grassroots Women Empowerment Program (GWEP); Research and Advocacy Program; and Special Projects.
AB’s Mentoring, Mutual Learning, and Networking Building Program
The AB PEF will provide spaces and a platform for mentoring, mutual learning, and network building between other women political leaders and the Fellows in recognition of the former’s rich experiences in politics and governance. This Program hopes to forge solidarity and sisterhood among the women leaders through the following: Online Learning Platform; Peer Mentoring; and Expert Mentoring.
Peer Mentoring
The AB Fellows will be introduced to seasoned women political leaders, who will serve as peer mentors, and who believe in feminist leadership; rights-based, inclusive, democratic and good governance; and the value of active citizenship.
Each mentor will be assigned to 2-3 Angat Bayi Fellows as their mentees. Mentors will be introduced to their mentees during the conduct of the Angat Bayi Course. They will provide their mentees their contact information and agree on ways of how to connect and communicate in the course of the Angat Bayi Fellowship to allow sharing and exchanging of ideas and experiences (e.g., assistance, strategies in running a public office, etc.). Angat Bayi Fellows are required to come up with a project or program that will integrate their learnings and insights and their assigned peer mentors may assist them in the development of the plans.
The connection and interaction may go beyond peer mentoring to introducing the mentees to or identifying potential partners in the implementation of their programs and projects in their respective cities/ municipalities.
Course I: Feminist and Gender Transformative Leadership | |
Session 1. Introduction to Feminist Theories |
Ms. Mia Aquino, Lecturer
Department of Women and Development Studies College of Social Work and Community Development
University of the Philippines |
Video1. Liberal Feminist Theory | |
Video 2. Marxist Feminist Theory | |
Video 3. Radical Feminist Theory | |
Video 4. Socialist Feminist Theory | |
Video 5. Third World feminist Theory | |
Video 6. Eco Feminist Theory | |
Video 7. Post Modern Theory |
Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development | |
Session 1: Inclusive Development: Human Rights, Freedoms and Capabilities, Gender and Development | Dr. Nathalie Africa-Verceles |
Session 2. Democratic Rights-Based Governance and Development |
Dr. Jean Encinas-Franco, Professor
Department of Political Science University of the Philippines
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Session 3. Local Governance in the 21st Century: Including the Excluded (Praxis) |
Dr. Maria Ela L. Atienza, Professor
Department of Political Science University of the Philippines
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Session 4. Institutional Constraints to Democracy in the Philippines |
Atty. Ibarra M. Gutierrez III
Professorial Lecturer College of Law
University of the Philippines
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Session 5. Design Thinking for Feminist Leaders 1 |
Hamilcar B. Chanjueco, Jr.
Program Officer for Angat Buhay Women Office of the Vice President Angat Buhay Program
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Special Topic 1. LGBTIQ and SOGIESC 101 |
Mr. Perci Cedaña, Former Commissioner
National Youth Commission |
Special Topic 2. Gender Affirmative Language |
Dr. Excelsa C. Tongson, Deputy Director
Training, Outreach and Extension
UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies |
Special Topic 3. Women Leadership in Time of Pandemic |
TBA
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Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development - Session 1
- Session 1.1 Introduction and Review of Feminism and Intersectionality
- Session 1.2 Human Rights and the Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA) to Development (Part One)
- Session 1.3 Human Rights and the Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA) to Development (Part Two)
- Session 1.4 The Capabilities Approach and Human Development
- Session 1.5 Human Development
- Session 1.6 Gender and Development Approach
- Session 1.7 Women’s Empowerment
- Session 1.8 Additional References
- Session 1.9 Important Announcement
Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development - Session 2
- Session 2.1 Introduction
- Session 2.2 What is Rights-Based Democratic Governance?
- Session 2.3 Five Principles Comprising Rights - Based Governance - Equity
- Session 2.4 Five Principles Comprising Rights - Based Governance - Participation
- Session 2.5 Five Principles Comprising Rights - Based Governance - Accountability and Transparency
- Session 2.6 Conclusion
- Session 2.7 Additional References
- Session 2.8 Important Announcement
Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development - Session 3
- Session 3.1 Introduction
- Session 3.2 Definitions Governance, Local Governments, and Local Governance
- Session 3.3 Global Trends and Lessons in Moving Forward
- Session 3.4 The Institutional Framework in the Philippines The 1991 Local Government Code
- Session 3.5 Policies and Mechanisms Increasing Opportunities for Women and Other Sectors
- Session 3.6 Assessment of the State of Devolution and Inclusion in the Philippines
- Session 3.7 Some Tentative Conclusions About the LGC and the Inclusion of Women
- Session 3.8 Additional References
- Session 3.9 Important Announcement
Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development - Session 4
- Session 4.1 Introduction
- Session 4.2 The “classic” framework of government
- Session 4.3 The “classic” division of power
- Session 4.4 The reality in the Philippines
- Session 4.5 The awesome power of the Executive
- Session 4.6 Congress as a balancing force
- Session 4.7 Courts as impartial arbiters
- Session 4.8 The potent power of supervision
- Session 4.9 Ways Forward
- Session 4.10 Additional References
- Session 4.11 Important Announcement
Course II: Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Leadership, and Development - Session 5
- Session 5.1 Introduction
- Session 5.2 What is Design Thinking?
- Session 5.3 Step 1 - Empathize
- Session 5.4 Step 2 - Define
- Session 5.5 Step 3 - Ideate
- Session 5.6 Step 4 - Prototype
- Session 5.7 Step 5 - Test
- Session 5.8 Summary and Activity
- Session 5.9 Conclusion
- Session 5.10 Submission Bin for Design Thinking Activity
- Session 5.11 Important Announcement
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Welcome to Angat Bayi Fellows 2020-2021! We hope that you find the sessions in the course useful in furthering feminist leadership. 🙂 Please do not hesitate to contact us for your questions/queries. Have fun learning!
Please make sure that you have completed the session on Feminist Theories before you start the Course 2 sessions. Thank you!!!
In our ongoing budget hearings, we made sure that each department addressed and included the Gender Development and SOGIESC legislations in their departmental budgets. Mylen Yaranon.