This initiative brought the Municipal Advisory Council for Police Transformation in front of Sacred Heart High School, Zarraga National High School graduating students and Don Benjamin Jalandoni memorial High School. The Philippine National Police Program on regional wide recruitment for high school graduating students was launched here in Zarraga.
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Facilitated by SEA Lead Activator, Nicanor Perlas
(as of AUGUST 24, 2015) Helped in identifying and prioritizing community sub-project as one of the solutions to the various problems of the 24 barangays identified during the first barangay assembly. Assisted Community Empowerment Facilitator (CEF) in mobilizing the different Barangay Council’s to pass and approve legislative measure through Barangay […]
Here POPA joins with Municipal Agriculture Representatives, LGU staff, and the SEA team to visit the Organic Trading Post. An orientation given by Mr. Rex Velarde, from the Office of the Mayor.
There is something extraordinary, mind-boggling, and even “impossible” going on in Zarraga, a 4th Class municipality in the Province of Iloilo, Western Visayas Region, Philippines. A world-class innovation is arising from the ashes of neglect, poverty, mismanagement, and widespread apathy. A new form of governance is beaming a brilliant light […]
Several decades ago, Ronald Coase, a world-renowned economist, introduced the concept of “transaction cost” into economics. His profound research showed that human beings invented economic institutions in order to reduce the transaction cost of doing business. Low transaction cost made business more efficient and productive. Coase won the 1991 Nobel […]
In recent years, the world has invented a very powerful and effective approach to address the planet’s greatest challenges. It is the coming together of civil society, government, and business, especially social entrepreneurs, around a challenge where they combine their unique talents and resources to create innovative solutions. This approach […]
Since the end of the 20th century, tens of thousands across the Philippines have been hoping for a real development breakthrough. They have been fervently wishing that the country’s globally-recognized blueprint for sustainable development, Philippine Agenda 21, considered by the UN as a global best practice, would be earnestly implemented […]
SEA organizes the Civil Society group of Zarraga as one of the key players in the movement towards integral sustainable development.
Seth Jordan of Free Columbia interviewing Rene Masongsong Head of Zarraga’s Civil Society network. (JULY-SEPTEMBER 2015) Seth Jordan, an organizer and educator from Free Columbia in the United States, visited SEA in order to study and write about the advanced threefolding work that SEA is facilitating in Zarraga. Here is […]