ASPAP News and Events
ASPAP President Visit to jumpstart
Region 2 - Chapter’s Projects 2008
Dr. Grace Gorospe-Jamon and Prof. Eli Ricote, ASPAP Inc.’s President and Treasurer respectively, made a quick visit to ASPAP-Chapter 2 last 31 July 2008, in time for the Chapter’s planning session hosted by Director Renato Brion of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) at the DILG Regional Center in Carig Sur, Tuguegarao City.
Attended by the representatives of the various ASPAP-member schools in the region such as Cagayan State University, Isabela State University, Nueva Viscaya State University, Saint Louis University and Saint Paul University in Tuguegarao, the gathering proved to be an appropriate venue for Dr. Grace Jamon to talk about the need to formally establish the chapter as a collaboration of ASPAP schools with its duly elected officers from among their official ASPAP representatives. She reiterated how the chapter, once officially established, can benefit from ASPAP’s various upcoming projects that would be mainstreamed to its chapters all over the country.
Prof. Ricote added that these projects which have prospective funding sources from donor agencies like the USAID and WB, will substantially help the ASPAP Chapter and the individual schools strengthen their respective faculty development and research objectives. This can also a very rich venue for the necessary academic and institutional linkages required of higher educational institutions.
Both Dr. Jamon and Prof. Ricote noted the visibly strong partnership between the DILG and the ASPAP schools in the region. Dir. Brion responded how this partnership had long provided the venue for collaborative projects and activities. Dr. Jamon even suggested to Prof. Ricote to document this case and highlight its innovations as an ASPAP regional chapter.
Dr. Jamon and Prof. Ricote were in Tuguegarao City as they were invited to be facilitators in the National Security Council’s (NSC) Local Peace and Security Assembly (LPSA) for Region 2, which culminated in a presentation of the assembly’s resolution to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Cagayan State University’s Dr. Nelia Cauilan, an active ASPAP Member also invited as facilitator in the LPSA, made the necessary arrangements for Dir. Jamon and Prof. Ricote’s short visit to ASPAP-Region 2.
EROPA SEMINAR 2008
The EROPA, in partnership with the Asia-Europe Foundation will hold EROPA SEMINAR 2008 on October 23-25, 2008 in Manila. The seminar's theme is: “Governance in a Triptych: Environment, Migration, Peace and Order.”
The event will be hosted by the Civil Service Commission in cooperation with the Career Executive Service Board and the University of the Philippines - National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG).
Download the AIDE MEMOIRE here [PDF: 50KB]
Raul P. De Guzman Foundation
Scholarship for the 2008 EROPA Seminar on “Governance in a Triptych: Environment, Migration, Peace and Order”
Click link to view MECHANICS OF THE GRANT [PDF: 20KB]
Panibagong Paraan Project Launched
in ASPAP General Assembly
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As highlight of its 2008 General Assembly held back-to-back with the UP-NCPAG Colloquium, the ASPAP launched its British Embassy-funded Panibagong Paraan Project last 27 June 2008.
Entitled “Strengthening the ASPAP-LGU Partnership For Improved Governance and Service Delivery at the Local Level,” the project which was selected through the World Bank-initiated Panibagong Paraan ’08 Program, will be implemented in selected ASPAP Regional Chapter sites along with their respective LGU partners. Employing the “town and gown” approach to local governance, this partnership will provide a concrete venue where the ASPAP school can be directly involved in actual local governance.
The launching was graced by representatives from the British Embassy led by Second Secretary Nadja Freeman who commended ASPAP for its initiative to go down to the level of LGUs and directly provide them assistance. UP-NCPAG Dean and ASPAP Secretary General, Dr. Alex Brillantes and reelected ASPAP President, Dr. Grace Gorospe-Jamon, both responded with great appreciation to the British Embassy and the Panibagong Paraan Committee for their recognition of the ASPAP’s efforts to bridge PA/Governance theory with actual governance practice through real partnerships with local government units. Dr. Jamon particularly committed to harness the tremendous prospects that the ASPAP Regional Chapters can do to truly help their partner LGUs in actual projects and activities.
Aside from the launching the Panibagong Paraan Project, the newly elected officers of the ASPAP Inc. were inducted by Commissioner Mary Ann Fernandez of the Civil Service Commission. This was followed by the General Assembly where Dr. Jamon reported on the numerous achievements of ASPAP in 2007. The Regional Chapter Presidents also provided their respective updates and developments. Updates on the ongoing projects as well as several upcoming activities and projects were also discussed during the assembly.
ASPAP Celebrates Philippine Public Administration
with UP-NCPAG
In support of the UP-NCPAG’s major activity to celebrate the UP Centennial, the ASPAP Inc. co-sponsored a Public Colloquium on Philippine Public Administration last 26-27 June 2008 at the UP-NCPAG in Diliman, Quezon City.
With the theme “Is There a Philippine Public Administration? A Timeless Issue,” the colloquium featured papers and researches written by the country’s most prominent scholars, authors and educators in the field of Public Administration and Governance (PA/G). The papers/researches tackled topics and concerns about Philippine PA towards: 1) Redefining and Relocating the Discipline; 2) Revisiting Philippine PA’s Historical Past; 3) Locating Philippine PA with Sectoral Linkages and Concerns; as well as the emerging 4) Trends and Issues in Philippine PA.
Majority of the papers noted the crucial role of the ASPAP Inc. as the primary venue where PA/Governance institutions all over the country can create and sustain necessary collaborative academic, research, faculty-development and extension activities and projects – all with the intention of further strengthening the instruction, study and practice of PA/Governance the country.
The colloquium was attended by a huge audience of Philippine PA/Governance faculty, researchers and scholars gathered by the ASPAP Inc. from its extensive network of PA institutions all over the country. The colloquium was followed by the ASPAP Inc.’s 2008 General Assembly and election of officers where the incumbent President, Dr. Grace Gorospe-Jamon of the Development Academy of the Philippines, was unanimously re-elected by the ASPAP Inc. Board.
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