AWCF’s Ms Angelita Valdez, Program Coordinator, and Ms Aster Peñaranda, Administrative and Finance Coordinator, were present in the first meeting for 2011 of the Philippine Access Program Committee (PAPCOM) on March 22-24 held in Quezon City, Philippines. The PAPCOM meeting is regularly held to monitor and assess the progress of the “Advancing Civic Capacities for Effective and Sustainable Services for the Poor (ACCESS for the Poor)" Programme, supported from 2010-2012 by the Swedish Co-operative Centre (SCC). AWCF is among the partner-organizations of the Programme in the Philippines, as it is currently implementing a gender equality (GE) project for co-ops in the country.
The PAPCOM in March was hosted by the SCC-Philippines through its Country Director, Ms Anneli Leina.
In the meeting’s first day, the different partner-organizations of the Programme presented updates of their projects’ implementation. Ms Valdez reported to the meeting the conduct of AWCF’s 2010 activities that had included the 2011 first quarter activities. In this first quarter, she said that AWCF had carried out three capacity-building workshops, the second one in a series for gender focal persons and gender equality trainers of co-ops, and also the conduct of the second phase of the design conference for the GE training manual for co-ops.
The meeting’s second day featured a session on financial management given by the R.S. Bernaldo and Associates Auditing Firm. This firm served as the auditor for the ACCESS to the Poor Programme for 2010. Inputs and recommendations on how to better handle and record the allocations for the project budget were given in the session.
A discussion on poverty alleviation was held on the meeting’s third day. The discussion was a follow-up session on inputs provided on the first day by a representative of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), a Philippine government agency. Poverty alleviation was the theme given for this PAPCOM meeting and as requested by the Programme’s partner-organizations as a technical assistance in integrating poverty alleviation as the main theme in the different projects that they were implementing in their partnership with SCC.
The next PAPCOM meeting will be held in June, with AWCF as host.
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