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Bottom Ups

Bottom ups is a monthly column on good governance practices, lessons, and views from the rich context and perspective of Philippine local governents, leaders, and managers. From this vantage point, the columnist takes the study of bottom-up democracy from the academic to the practical and real life experience of evolving local autonomy and empowerment  in the countryside.


Bottom Ups

Opening the Floodgates of Hope

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Flip-Flopping in the City

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It must be summer already. Flip-flops are in. But not the kind you wear for your refreshing walkabout. The League of Cities of the Philippines is steaming hot these days, precisely because of flip-flops --Supreme Court decision flip-flops.



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A National Prayer Life

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It was a Sunday like no other for the main man of the nation. President Noynoy Aquino stood still and silent, as a booming 12,500-strong wall of prayer and petition mounted at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, Philippines. The grand prayer rally, which lasted for almost three, truly blessed hours, was for him and the country, whose past months have been haunted by the most trying series of crises.



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Goodness in Governance

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As the December air gets colder and colder, the Supreme Court is in the spotlight for unexpected decisions that garnered oh’s and ah’s from a multitude of sectoral interests. The signs are up that there’s more to come in 2011. It’s a curious year-ender, but one worth watching in the background of other interesting developments as 2010 closes. And one development, meek and without fanfare, shone a bright light of hope upon the nation—the RePubliko forum at UP, which featured the soft launching of ten United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) governance projects including the Social Watch Philippines’s Local Public Finance Module.



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War vs Red Tape

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For government to run effectively and fulfill its mandate, it has to run smoothly like a well-tuned engine – free from the unnecessary procedures and transactions we have come to know as “bureaucratic red tape”.



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Less Government | Nonoy Oplas | Sunday, 20 May 2012 | Hits: 41 | Comments

Avengers Assemble

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As our movie houses are conquered by “The Avengers” and as that pelenovela (political-economic telenovela) unfolds in the Senate, some other matters with long-term implications are transpiring in the halls ... Read more

Warp 9! | Louie Montemar | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Hits: 39 | Comments

Fixing the President’s Image for the General Welfare: An Open Letter to the Presidential C

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The past week, we heard confirmation from the President himself that he and Ms. Grace Lee, a TV and radio personality have gone separate ways – claiming that they are ... Read more

Trend Blazer | Aaron Benedict De Leon | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Hits: 40 | Comments

A Tale of Two Fights: The Thrilla in NAIA and Game 7 of the PBA Finals

Sunday, May 6 was quite an eventful day for many. It was a day of fights and competition, where the victors were supposed to stand tall and the ... Read more

Trend Blazer | Aaron Benedict De Leon | Friday, 11 May 2012 | Hits: 147 | Comments

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