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GOVERNMENT COOPERATION OFFICE
Government Partnership Division
Mobilization Program
Government Partnership Division mobilizes internal and external resources in the implementation of collaborative projects and activities with government agencies. It has developed policies, guidelines and procedures on the establishment of linkages with government agencies in the promotion and protection of human rights. It is engaged in establishing/initiating collaboration with identified government agencies like the DBM, NCRFW, the DILG and the Congress.
Institutionalization Program
Rights Based Approach Advocacy and commitment building with other government agencies.
To formalize a Memorandum of Agreement with selective government institutions
Capacity building Program
In coordination with the Education and Research Office, conduct Orientation Workshops to Government Offices on how to mainstream RBA in their respective agencies policies and programs.
Special Projects
BARANGAY HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER (BHRAC)
Concept
The Barangay Human Rights Action Center Program (BHRAC is a nationwide mobilization program for human rights protection and advocacy at the Barangay level. It has been conceived so that the CHRP will be within the reach of the people, especially in the far flung areas. The Commission on Human Rights Regional Officers/sub-regional offices are based mainly in the regional centers and capitals of provinces.
Description
The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP), in pursuance of its Constitutional mandate of enhancing the primacy of respect for human rights through a continuing program of education, information and research has conceptualized the Human Rights Education and Training Program (HRETP). The HRETP is deisgned to be the mother program of all human rights education plan for different sectors of the society. The HRETP is also designed to create a human rights link with the other sectors of the society in terms of assisting the Commission in organizing HR training programs. Its implementation with the police and the military sector was certainly a success. Later, it was realized that the Local Government Units ( LGUs ) sector is a vast, untapped partner in human rights promotion and protection. But plans for the LGUs were certainly much bigger and better because the Commission believe that the barangays can achieve much more themselves in the field of human rights. Institutionalizing human rights at the grassroots level is a better way of promoting human rights but that they should be empowered first.
In order to institutionalize human rights in this sector, formal coordination efforts were made with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). In 1994, the CHRP conceptualized a program that will empower the people in the grassroots in promoting and protecting human rights and at the same time bring the services of the Commission closer to the people thus the Barangay Human Rights Action Center (BRHAC) program, a mechanism which will institutionalize HR in in the LGUs . The DILG through the CHR issued Memorandum Circular No. 94-194 dated October 27, 1994 enjoining all local government units through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) in December, 1996. Series of MOA followed and the latest was the MOA between and among the CHR and various Leagues signed last December 10, 2001.
The Barangay Human Rights Action Center is a program which aims to give to the ordinary citizen the central role in the implementation of human rights promotion and protection services at the grassroots and at the same time bringing the services of the Commission closer to the people especially to those areas not strategically within the reach of the CHRP's central, regional and sub-regional offices.
In the establishment of BHRACs , the Local Government Operations Office (LGOO), Planning and Development Coordinators ( PDCs ), the DILG and the CHR team shall orient the Local Executives on the BHRAC Program and urge them to establish and support the BHRAC in their areas of jurisdiction. The BHRAC is established through a barangay resolution.
The BHRAC shall be manned by a Barangay Human Rights Action Officer (BHRAO) who shall oversee the center's operations. The BHRAO shall be chosen through viva voce voting by a majority of those present in the barangay assembly meeting called solely for the purpose of nominating and electing candidates. The BHRAO must not be an elective/appointive official of the government and mus not engage in partisan political activities. The BHRAO is also required to undergo capability building/training for BHRAOs .
The BHRAC has four functions/Services namely:
As of the year 2002, there are a total of 14, 408 established all over the country.
The Barangay Human Rights Action Officers have formed an and associations of Regional Barangay Human Rights Action Officers (RABHRAO) and the association National Barangay Human Rights Action Officers (NABRHAO) which have been registered with the Security and Exchange Commission.
The BHRAC Program Management Committee is composed of the following:
Chairperson Purificacion V. Quisumbing
Commissioner Dominador N. Calamba II
Commissioner Eligio P. Mallari
Commissioner Wilhelm D. Soriano
Commissioner Quintin Cueto III
Executive Director Jacqueline V. Mejia
Commission Secretary Homero V. Rusiana
National BHRAC Secretariat:
Ellen G. Julian - Division Chief, GPD
Martha Tanada-Crisostomo - Program Officer IV
Hubert V. Ruiz - Program Officer III
Vicenta Rosales Basilio - Program Officer III
Joy E. Estrada - Program Officer II
METAGORA
Government Partnership Division is a member of the Core Working Group for the METAGORA Project. The Working Group is responsible for the development of the project design and implementation scheme with partner agencies, specifically the National Statistical Development Board.
Major Accomplishments
Secretariat to RBA Orientation Program with: