10 October 2014
Dear KOMPRe Founding Members,
Walang iwanan sa tuwid na daan. Isang daan na matagal na nating sama-samang tinatahak. Kaya gusto naming simulan itong email sa isang pasasalamat sa inyong pagsuporta sa paglunsad natin ng Koalisyon ng Mamamayan Para sa Reporma!! At sa pamamagitan nitong mga regular KOMPRe email updates, we hope we can share with you all the various efforts, plans, concerns and activities of our KOMPRe member networks around the country in pursuing our reform agenda.
Over just a month ago, we together launched the coalition with over 400 CSOs last August 25, 2014 at the Ateneo de Manila University Campus in Quezon City. There we agreed on our KOMPRe Unity Statement, and discussed the many achievements of the PNoy administration these past four years, and the proposed priorities for the next two years. We then dialogued with several Cabinet Secretaries including Sec Mar Roxas, Sec Dinky Soliman, Sec Edwin Lacierda, Sec Ronald Llamas, Sec Arsenio Balisacan and NYC Chair Gio Tingson who greatly appreciated the opportunity to meet and listen to the CSO community. Our launch was covered widely by many national TV stations, newspapers and news websites, inspiring many others to want to join.
This was followed by successful KOMPRe launches in La Salle Cavite for CALABARZON members last September 21, then in Bacolod City on September 23, and in Davao City just last week on September 30. Again, we had broad participation with over 300 participants from various sectors and organizations in each of the areas, and successful media coverage. The workshop outputs were also presented to Sec Mar, Sec Butch Abad and Sec Edwin Lacierda in Cavite, to Sec Mar and Sec Ging Deles in Davao, and to several regional and provincial directors from DSWD, DILG and DBM in Bacolod City. Below are some pictures from those gatherings.
Last September 12, over a hundred of our KOMPRe members were guests for the President Aquino’s dialogue in Malacanang where he outlined his position on issues raised and priorities for the next few months.
We have also partnered with the Makati Development Corporations and TESDA for the Training for Work Scholarship Program that will provide at least a thousand community members in Laguna, Cavite and Metro Manila with construction jobs in MDC sites to begin this month.
The KOMPRe National Steering Committee has also worked on consolidating the workshop results from the various launching conferences, and is working on action plans for our priority reform agenda items. Thus next week on October 13, Monday, we have organized a round table discussion with Akbayan Representative Congressman Barry Gutierrez on Budget Reforms and the proposed Anti-dynasty bill; all KOMPRe organizations are invited to participate. We may not immediately get to work on all the workshop plans for now, but with your help and support, we hope to advance the reforms you identified last month para mai-padama natin ang reporma.
Lastly for now, may I invite you to please keep connected with us. Feel free to join our Facebook page (just click on the link or go to https://www.facebook.com/KOMPRe.ph), visit our blog site (click link orhttp://koalisyonngmamamayanparasareporma.blogspot.com/), or support our reform agenda through social media by following our Twitter account (click link or go to https://twitter.com/PHreform). You may also forward this email updates which we will regularly send you to your organization members and friends. If you wish to stop receiving this, add friends to our mailing list, or give feedback, just reply to this email managed by our KOMPRe National Secretariat.
Patuloy nating pagningasin ang pagsusulong sa reporma habang nakatutok ang ating mga mata sa pagsiguro na hindi lamang lalalim bagkus magbubunga ang ating isinusulong na reform agenda sa huling dalawang taon ng kasalukuyang Aquino administration.
Maraming Salamat po,
Mardi Mapa-Suplido
Head, KOMPRe National Secretariat
| Participants took the opportunity to have their photos taken with visiting cabinet secretaries (from right, seated behind the table, Butch Abad of DBM, Presidential spokersperson Edwin Lacierda and Mar Roxas of DILG. Also in the photo (from left, seated behind the table, Atty. Aleta Tolentino of PPVR and Karina Constantino-David of PPVR and KOMPRe lead convener. The event was held at La Salle-Dasmarinas in Cavite. |
| DILG secretary Mar Roxas explaining why Filipinos must support the Bangasamoro Basic Law during the Davao launching held at Ateneo de Davao. |
| Participants in the Negros launch held at Mayfair Plaza in Bacolod City discuss the priority reform agenda they want to pursue during one of the workshops. |
