People power for education: Civil society participation in the philippine educational politics

Abstract

There is still a long way to go before all Filipino's have access to multi-cultural, gender-fair, liberating life-long education, as the education situation is alarming. But the recent democratisation of the country and the increasing institutionalisation of civil society participation has created new possibilities for the education situation to improve. In the ten years of existence, E-Net has matured from a group of justice activists who were brought together by an international NGO to address the alarming education situation in the Philippines, to an independent network of over 150 members, spread nationwide, who officially co-chair of the National EFA Commission, and who advocate for education reforms and increased importance of education Filipino political debate.