35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 INVOCATION Ms. Leah Tolentino, MLA and Fishers of Men and Ginhawa Team
Ama na nagbibgay buhay, bawat butil ay biyaya Buhay at tubig kawangis ng pgpapala, lupa at puso lahat ay biyaya.
Hesus na kasama naming namamaybay sa karagatan at lawa
Hesus na kumakatawan sa kababaihan at kalalakihan, bata, matanda at ng may sapat at salat sa buhay, ng mahina at ngpupunyagi matuklasasan ang tunay na lakas,
Hesus na handa mg alay upang hilumin ang kabiguan ng kaaramihan, lalo na ang sakit ng nahihirapan.
Nawa’y ipagmapaumanahin ang aming mga kamalian at kakulangan Ang iyong salita nawa ng katapatan ang siyang gumabay Ang iyong puso ng sasa-alang alang ng kapakanan ng kabuuan.
Ang mabuhay.
PRAYER OF COMPASSION
Inspired by our brothers and sisters in Palawan
(with hands clasp – pagdadaop-palad. A gesture of authenticity among the indigenous Palaw-ans of Palawan.)
We pray for the continuity of our commitment We plead and share faith through each other May we find strength and community and solidarity (touching the head). May we think with Christ-like compassion and align our intentions with our actions (touching the heart). May we feel the courage in our hearts
Learn to listen to the hearts of our kapwa and be aware of the hearts of the cosmos.
1 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 WELCOME REMARKS
MS. MEDIATRIX V. VILLANUEVA Co-Chairperson, Steering Committee 35th BBC General Assembly & Annual Meeting
Your excellencies, Most Rev. Nereo Odchimar, CBCP President, your Excellency Most Rev. Honesto Ongtioco, CBCP Treasurer, your Grace, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, BBC National co-Chairman with Mr. Meneleo Carlos, Jr. members of the BBC National Executive Committee, BBC members, guests, ladies and gentle- men, to all of us here called today, a nation, a home, our Church,
Welcome! Dayon. Dagos po. Ginakalipay namo ang inyong pag abot. Naimbag A Malen. Maligayang pagdating. Makalikasang pagdating ang alay ng bukirin, lawa at karagatan.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF BISHOPS
1. Bp. Gerardo Alminaza - Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro 2. Bp. Patricio Alo - Bishop of Mati 3. Bp. Jose Colin Bagaforo - Auxiliary Bishop of Cotabato 4. Bp. Broderick Pabillo - Auxiliary Bishop of Manila 5. Bp. Sofronio Bancud - Bishop of Cabanatuan 6. Bp. Joel Baylon - Bishop of Legazpi 7. Bp. Antonieto Cabajog - Bishop of Surigao 8. Bp. Jose Cabantan - Bishop of Malaybalay 9. Bp. Elenito Galido - Bishop of Iligan 10. Bp. Deogracias Iniguez - Bishop of Kalookan 11. Bp. Edgardo Juanich - Bishop Apostolic of Taytay 12. Abp. Antonio Ledesma - Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro 13. Bp. Vicente Navarra - Bishop of Bacolod 14. Bp. Honesto Ongtioco - Bishop of Cubao 15. Bp. Antonio Tobias - Bishop of Novaliches 16. Bp. Julius Tonel - Bishop of Ipil 17. Bp. Emmanuel Trance - Bishop of Catarman 18. Bp. Crispin Varquez - Bishop of Borongan 19. Bp. Jose Sorra - Bishop Emeritus of Legazpi 20. Bp. Benjamin Almoneda - Bishop Emeritus of Daet 21. Bp. Angel Hobayan - Bishop of Cata 22. Bp. Luis Antonio Tagle - Bishop of Imus 23. Bp. Nereo Odchimar - Bishop of Tandag, CBCP President 24. Bp. Roberto Mallari - Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga 25. Bp. Francisco De Leon - Auxiliary Bishop of pAntiplo 26. Bp. Camilo Gregorio - Bishop of Batanes 27. Bp. Sergio Utleg - Archbishop-elect of Tuguegararao 28. Abp. Ramon Arguelles - Archbishop of Lipa 29. Abp. Angel Lagdameo - Archbishop of Jaro 30. Msgr. Jaime Villanueva - Administrator of Palo 31. Bp. Isabelo Abarquez - Bishop of Calbayog 32. Bp. Broderick Pabillo - Auxiliary Bishop of Manila 2 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
CALL TO ORDER APROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE 34th GENERAL ASSEMBLY & ANNUAL MEETING MR. MENELEO J. CARLOS, JR. National Co-Chairman Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference
Thank you Medi. Good afternoon. The Minutes are approved.
May we call this meeting to order? May we have the announcement of the elections of the National Executive Committee? The first order of business is the Approval of the Minutes of the 34th BBC General Assembly & Annual Meeting which was held here at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center last year.
You have a copy of it in your kits.
Are there any clarifications that you wish to have at this time?
Otherwise, may we hear a motion to approve these Minutes of meeting?
(Someone from the floor): “ I move for the approval of the Minutes.” The Treasurer’s Report is contained in the kit that was Is there a second? “I second the motion” distributed as you came in. Thank you.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ELECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MARY BELLE S. BELUAN Executive Director The elections of the National Executive Committee will be held today.
May we ask you to submit your ballots to the BBC Secretariat Registration desk?
We will wait until all the ballots have been cast and we will report the results to you.
3 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 NATIONAL CO-CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Meneleo J. Carlos, Jr.
Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, my co- development in cooperation with various Chairman in BBC, your excellencies, sectors of Philippine society. BBC considers members of the BBC EXCOM, BBC widespread poverty and social injustice in our members, fellow businessmen, our country today a contradiction to the Christian distinguished speakers, ladies and understanding of the human person. gentlemen, good afternoon. MISSION On behalf of the National Executive Committee, allow me to present a Our mission is to lift the quality of life of the report of the EXCOM’s undertakings Filipino through the promotion of social justice for the period July 2010 to June 2011. and by increasing the nation’s wealth in a manner that is more equitably shared. Before this however, allow me to say a few words on the reason for the To achieve these goals, BBC will catalyze the theme of today’s Conference sharing of resources, especially technology, among the rich and poor, the powerful and Foreword powerless through a process of human development.
Through forty years of partnership between bishops and Let me now render my Report: businessmen, we have always been driven by the objective Last year’s 34th General Assembly & Annual Meeting held in of promoting Total Human Development. This past year this same venue saw the election of the National Executive however, our concern for social justice and the poor found Committee for the year 2010-2011. Cluster and Committee common ground with the President Noynoy’s government’s Co-Chairmen were appointed by the EXCOM thereafter to thrust to eradicate poverty, a problem of such magnitude that carry out BBC’s Program of Action. Although limited in would require considerable resources. This led us to propose numbers and resources, we managed to undertake new that today’s forum enlist programs on Corporate Social challenges as you will note. Allow me to mention some Responsibility and corporate resources towards the highlights of these activities: eradication of Poverty and Total Human Development. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE VISION The Membership Committee co-chaired by Amb. Howard Dee Guided by the teachings and examples of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Bishop Arturo Bastes, in partnership with the Assisi the BBC is a partnership of bishops and businessmen, at the Development Foundation, sponsored a very specially designed national and local levels, to promote total human Retreat/Seminar on “Coping with Aging and Facing Death: in Preparation for Safe Passage into Eternal Life”, especially for our senior members. The Retreat was conducted by Rev. Fr. Alfons Deeken, S.J., PhD (Fordham), an author of 33 books on death and dying, and presently Professor Emeritus at Sophia University, Tokyo. He was assisted by Fr. Asandas Balchand, S.J., and former rector of three Jesuit communities in the Philippines. Three Bishops, Bishop Jesse Mercado, Bishop Francisco de Leon and Bishop Federico Escaler were in attendance. As a result of the clamor for its repetition, Fr. Deeken has confirmed his availability for another session in February 2012. So for those of you who missed the first one and would now like to attend.
We need to increase our membership to be more effective in our advocacies and programs. In this regard, (Turn to page 5) 4 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
National Co-Chairman.... (from page 4) PASTORAL MANAGEMENT we propose to increase our annual Corporate membership dues to P25, 000 but allow up to three representatives. This • Designed an enhanced social security system to increase the retirement benefits will increase the corporate muscle in our membership and for diocesan priests and Bishops. strengthen our partnership with the corporate sector who • In 2010, the Committee also completed the have the needed resources to get things done. preparation of the Training Syllabus for Diocesan Financial Administrators broken LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT down as follows:
While the thrust of most of the BBC’s activities has been a dynamic program of advocacy, information, education and formation, we continued to embark on projects that seek to improve the living conditions of the less fortunate in Finance; and Module 4: Excel Application. partnership with collaborating agencies like the Quezon City PESO or Public Employment Service Office; the Payatas Endorsed by the BBC EXCOM, it was subsequently submitted Scavengers Homeowners Association Inc.; Pambansang to the Association of Diocesan Financial Administrators of the Kalipunan ng mga Manggagawang Impormal sa Pilipinas Philippines (ADFAP) during its Convention in Davao City last (PATAMABA) and the Development Bank of the Philippines June, 2010 which passed its approval. ADFAP has taken on as (DBP). Training skills are also provided for by TESDA and its responsibility the Implementation of the Syllabus to the Business Enterprises & Cooperative Mentoring (BECMI). different parishes. SGV has offered to provide their professional assistance in providing speakers and the free use Further to these, together with Visayan Forum, BBC of their facilities in Ayala Avenue, Makati City. confirmed and reiterated its full support of the early passage of the Magna Carta for the Domestic Workers or the We also assisted the Assisi Foundation in promoting their Kasambahay Bill. It is heartening to note that the Philippine publication of a booklet titled “A Sermon on the Amount” Senate has already approved their version of this bill, which (this was a very hot topic over lunch today) which is designed now awaits the approval of the Lower House’s version in order to help the church and other NGO’s to raise funds for their to enact this bill into law. The Kasambahay Bill specifically social justice programs. This booklet was just presented to seeks to provide fair wages and working conditions to our the CBCP Plenary Assembly this morning by Amb. Howard domestic helpers here and abroad. Dee. AGRARIAN REFORM and SOCIAL JUSTICE And recently, I believe, you must have heard the news that the International Labor Organization (ILO) has approved decent work parameters for overseas workers. In fact, I think Saudi Arabia has rejected these conditions. We would have organized a forum in support of this bill but the House Committee Chairman Emilio Ong assured us that there are no more serious obstacles to its passage.
PASTORAL MANAGEMENT
In partnership with the CBCP Pension Plan and SGV & Company, the Committee under the leadership of Mr. Fred Parungao and Bishop Honesto Ongtioco, designed an enhanced social security system to increase the retirement benefits for diocesan priests and Bishops. In 2010, the Committee also completed the preparation of the Training Syllabus for Diocesan Financial Administrators . The Syllabus is broken down into four Modules as follows: Module 1: Financial Accounting; Module 2: Management Accounting; Module 3: (Turn to page 6) 5 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
National Co-Chairman.... (from page 5) DND, the DOTC, and the DILG for us to provide their respective BAC with private volunteer observers during their The BBC Social Justice Committee co-chaired by Bishop procurement processes. All these initiatives were in support Broderick Pabillo and Chris Monsod has gained success in of a concerted action to help promote transparency in winning high profile cases for the Bukidnon farmers, the government procurement and minimize opportunities for Sulong CARPER, while providing assistance to the farmers of corruption. Hacienda Luisita. The case of the farmers affected by the APECO- Aurora Pacific PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPARENCY FUND Economic Zone has been referred to the BBC Committee by the CBCP-NASSA. More recently, we implemented a special project called “The Replication of the BBC Government Procurement Monitoring TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT Systems in the Provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental ” through a grant which we secured from the With the legislation in January 10, 2003 of RA 9184 known as Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF). the “Government Procurement Reform Act”, the establishment of Bids and Awards Committees (BACs) for PTF is an international non-governmental organization government procurement has been required. BBC is dedicated to helping civil society play an effective role in the committed to fight corruption and in this regard has joined design, implementation and monitoring of national anti- with other associations in signing the Integrity Pledge and in corruption programs. providing private sector observers in various government We initiated an Orientation and Training in Negros Occidental (Bacolod) and Negros Oriental (Dumaguete) with the blessing and support of Bishops Vicente Navarra and Bishop John Du.
Bacolod has already deployed trained observers in the BAC’s of various local government units. Dumaguete has had its initial orientation and getting ready to field its observers. Immediately after my report, we will formalize our partnership through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Dioceses of Bacolod and Dumaguete. Again we thank our Excellencies who are here in support of it. BBC CHAPTERS FORMATION procurement processes. Noteworthy is the revitalization of BBC Dumaguete Chapter. In collaboration with the Coalition Against Corruption (CAC) and Sangguniang LAIKO, (Episcopal Commission on the Laity) led by Mr. Ed Tirona, BBC through its CAC- BBC-LAIKO Government Procurement Monitoring Project Committee, with Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo, Atty. Pat Menzon, Dr. Magdaleno Albarracin; and Mr. Edgardo Tria Tirona as Co- Chairmen, are engaged in organizing a pool of private sector volunteers, providing for the training and deployment of observers in Bids and Awards Committees (BACs) of various government agencies. Spiritual and values formation have been made an essential component of these training programs. Institutionalization of partnerships with organizations like the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals (BCBP) has been forged through the support of its President In this vein, we look forward to your Excellencies’ advise on Bobby Atendido and BCBP Programs and Services Committee when to conveniently reactivate, or establish a BBC Chapter Chairman Joey Avellana for BCBP to endorse members willing in your dioceses . Just tell us when and where you would like to become volunteer BAC observers. to meet and we would be happy to arrange them. (Turn to page 7) Memorandums of Understanding have been signed with the 6 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
National Co-Chairman.... (from page 6) share its office space with them as well as its manpower whenever needed for the past three years and oftentimes lending staff support to Belle Beluan and Polly Dichoso.
To the General Membership, for your participation today and an even more active participation in the future. Membership recruitment will be a most important project if we are to pursue BBC’s Programs of Action.
As reported earlier, the EXCOM proposes to increase our corporate members with an increase in representation and a corresponding increase in dues. I ask you all to lend your full support to this campaign.
To the business and corporate organizations and other sectors present here this afternoon, we look forward to a strengthened collaboration in the pursuit of a common goal – to alleviate poverty, thru programs of Corporate Social Do feel free to advise the BBC Secretariat should you so decide Responsibility. and our Executive Director will go to your Dioceses and will get in touch with your designated representative for us to As the encyclical Caritas in Veritate states: “ It is the primordial begin the initial process of coordination. truth of God’s love, grace bestowed upon us, that opens our lives to gift and makes it possible to hope for a “development Obviously, many dioceses now can activate themselves with of the whole man and of all men”[8], to hope for progress a program in mind, principally on the fight against corruption. “from less human conditions to those which are more There is a lot of work to do in this regard. human”[9], obtained by overcoming the difficulties that are inevitably encountered along the way. (CV8) Our proposal for the activities for a BBC Chapter remains as follows: To us all, I look forward to another fruitful and productive year for us to be able to meet the on-going and challenging i Technical assistance by chapter members to Social need to address poverty and achieve total human Action projects development. ii Act as Circles of Discernment and Communal Action group Thank you and God Bless Us All! iii Promote Spiritual Development of members
Of course, priority action programs would depend on the needs of the Diocese or the Social Action Center.
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FINALLY, in closing, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to:
Our Steering Committee of this year’s 35th General Assembly & Annual Meeting; To the members of the National Executive Committee; To the Committee Co-Chairmen who on their own drove their respective Committee meetinsg. Our appreciation also goes to the NAMFREL Secretariat for allowing the BBC Secretariat to
7 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 SIGNING OF MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT WITH THE DIOCESE OF BACOLOD AND THE DIOCESE OF DUMAGUETE Replication of the CAC-BBC Government Procurement Monitoring Project The legislation of the Government Procurement Reform Act, of Understanding between the BBC National and these two also known as GPRA Republic Act 9184 Law on January 10, dioceses. 2003 states that it is the declared policy of the State to promote the ideals of good governance in all its branches, We look forward to the replication of these special projects departments, agencies, subdivisions, and instrumentalities, with other archdioceses and dioceses. including government-owned and/or -controlled corporations and local government units. May we request the representatives of the Dioceses of Bacolod to come to the front for the Memorandum of Understanding In response, the Bishop-Businessmen’s Conference for Human signing? : Bishop Vicente Navarra and Mr. Nonito Lupue, co- Development with support of the Coalition Against Corruption Chairmen of BBC Bacolod; Fr. Aniceto Buenafe , Social Action and the Makati Business Club was among those civil society Director; and Fr. Felimon Duaban, the Priest –in-charge of the organizations that implemented a project mobilizing and Good Governance desk; and the representatives from the deploying a pool of private sector volunteers as observers in Diocese of Dumaguete, Bishop John Du; Engr. Wilfredo the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of national government Magallano; Dr. Profetiza Lim and Fr. Julius Heruela to join agencies and government owned and controlled corporations. the team who will be signing the Memorandum of Understanding. The project was envisioned to help ensure credible and transparent government procurement accountability and Thank you Ms. Nancy Leon-Bailet of the Partnership for minimize opportunities for corruption. It is in this light that Transparency Fund. We hope to welcome you to more the Bishop Businessmen’s Conference for Human dioceses and archdioceses. Development embarked to replicate these Government Procurement Monitoring Systems in the provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental and Biliran, through a grant from the Partnership for Transparency Fund, represented here this afternoon by Ms. Nancy Leon-Bailet .
With the support and leadership of Bishop Vicente M. Navarra, Bishop of Bacolod, and Bishop John F. Du, Bishop of Dumaguete. we were able to forge partnerships with the Bishop-Priests-Businessmen’s Conference (BPBC) and the Social Action Center of Bacolod and the BBC – Dumaguete Chapter. We shall now witness the formal signing of the Memorandum
8 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 OVERVIEW & ORIENTATION OF THE 35th GENERAL ASSEMBLY & ANNUAL MEETING His Excellency MOST REV. BRODERICK S. PABILLO, D.D. Co-Chairman, Steering Committee 35th General Assembly & Annual Meeting
My dear friends, good afternoon! I Social Responsibility through studies, would like to start out with a quote seminars and conferences and through from Caritas in Veritate of Pope its pioneering program on Teaching Benedict XVI and I quote: Social Responsibility in business “Development will never be fully schools. In 1978, BBC prepared and guaranteed thru automatic or produced “The BBC Code of Ethics for impersonal forces, whether they Business “, that would serve as a guide derive from the market or and stimulus for the committed international politics. Development is businessmen in the management of his impossible without upright men and business and creating the right ethical women, without financiers and attitudes essential for business to politicians whose consciences are effectively promote total human finely attuned to the requirements of development of its people. (You have the common good. Both professional this Code of Ethics in your kit) competence and moral consistency are necessary.” ( CV 71) Let me quote a part of the opening address of Cardinal Tarcisius Bertone, We are inspired by these words of the Secretary of State of Pope Benedict Pope Benedict XVI in Caritas in XVI, to the Executive Summit on Ethics Veritate as we set the topic of this in Business at the Vatican. This summit meeting of the 35th General Assembly & Annual Meeting of was organized by the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace. the Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference for Human It took place on June 16 till June 18 of this year. Among many Development. things he, said:
We know that integral development of our people is the task “We are reminded by sound economic theory that the business of everyone, not just the government. The government leader is not a speculator, but essentially an innovator. The recognizes this. So this present administration is banking on speculator makes it his goal to maximize profit; for him, the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to develop our people. business is merely a means to an end, and that end is profit. This can be done however if we have upright and competent For the speculator, building roads and establishing hospitals men and women in business and government who know what or schools is not the goal, but merely a means to the goal of they are doing and who are really sincere in reaching out to maximum profit. It should be immediately clear that the the needs of the people. speculator is not the model of business leader that the Church holds up as an agent and builder of the common good.” Corporate Social Responsibility is an accepted mechanism in the world of business for this outreach. Hence our theme: The true business leader is very different. As we read in Caritas “CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A RESPONSE TO in Veritate: “Charity in truth requires that shape and structure POVERTY AND INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT” be given to those types of economic initiative which, without rejecting profit, aim at a higher goal than the mere logic of Caritas in Veritate also states: “Business management cannot the exchange of equivalents, of profit as an end in itself” (CV concern itself only with the interests of the proprietors, but 38). The business leader is first and foremost an innovator must also assume responsibility for all the other stakeholders who generates and pursues projects: for him, for her, for them, who contribute to the life of the business: the workers, the for business activity is never merely a means or a tool, but clients, the suppliers of various elements of production, the part of the goal itself. Logically, it is not possible to separate community of reference” (CV 40). the activity from its goal, since business activity has intrinsic value. It has value in itself.” BBC, even in its early years pursued the ideals of Corporate (Turn to page 10) 9 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Overview and Orientation...(from page 9) and bring about authentic and integral human development.
And I would also like to quote from the BBC Code of Ethics I started with a quote from Cardinal Bertone, and I end for Business. “All business is essentially an expression of human quoting him again from his same address. relationships; not only those who work in the enterprise; but also with those who own and provide financial resources, with “Ethical theories concerned with business and social those who supply it with material means and services and responsibility abound, but not all of them are acceptable in with those who buy its products and services, with the the light of the Christian understanding of man and an government, and with the wider public whose lives are authentic Christian humanism. This is especially true of those affected by the business activity. The interests of all those cases where socially responsible practices are adopted members of society must be taken into account in formulating primarily as a marketing device, without any effect on business policy. While conflict and tension can of themselves relationships inside and outside the business itself, the be constructive, the aim of business must always be to destination of its profits, the demands of justice, worker reconcile opposing interests in a balance of justice and mutual participation, and so forth.” concern.” “Nowadays, business leaders who want to take the Church’s We are in for an exciting afternoon as we exchange views on social teaching seriously will need to be more daring, not this important contribution of business and the church to fight limiting themselves to socially responsible practices and/or the ever insidious presence of poverty in our country. acts of philanthropy (positive and meritorious though these Our distinguished Panel of Speakers include: Bishop Jose Colin may be), but striking out into new territories.” M. Bagaforo, Auxiliary Bishop of Cotabato; Mr. Edgar Chua, Chairman of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation; Dr. Mahar “Aiming at a higher goal” – a goal greater than profit – while K. Mangahas and Mr. Christian Monsod. not “rejecting profit”, represents the great challenge facing today’s business leaders who are seriously concerned to They will discuss: a) an overview of the poverty situation in promote the common good and development – business the Philippines; b) Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives leaders, in other words, who see their activity as a task and a being espoused and undertaken by the business community vocation. The exclusive pursuit of profit proves inadequate as in the context of human development; c) the expectations of the economy and society nowadays has to deal with new the Bishops sector in terms of business helping alleviate the challenges, including the environment, “common goods” and poverty condition of the poor and the oppressed; and d) the globalization.” challenge how we as engaged citizens, both as Bishops and businessmen in partnership with government can respond to poverty.
Partnership in fighting poverty includes the sectors of society that we want to help. We need to listen to them and to take into account their views. Thus ,the Panel of Reactors whom we have chosen include representatives from the fisher folks, Mr. Frisco Patito; from the farmers, Mr. Hernando Funes; and from the urban poor, Mr. Jose Morales . They will share their insights on how they hope their plight could be addressed.
An Open Forum follows shortly after the Presentations.
The views will be summarized by Dr. Antonio Laviñ a, Dean of the Ateneo School of Government. He will May this afternoon, open our horizons and challenges to dare highlight points of convergence and divergence. us more boldly in doing our Corporate Social Responsibility.
We hope that this forum will not just be an exchange of ideas. Good afternoon and thank you! We hope that it will bring deeper realization to both church and business leaders that there are still many things that can be done through our CSR to address the needs of the poor
10 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 OVERVIEW ON THE POVERTY SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES DR. MAHAR K. MANGAHAS President, Social Weather Stations Member, BBC National Executive Committee
Good afternoon, Bishops-businessmen, inadequate caloric intake was 66.9 % last year. ladies and gentlemen. The New Development plan which came out about a month ago has that quotation, that I will give you an update on Hunger and the percentage decreased from 66.9 % in Poverty in the Philippines in a span of fifteen 1990 to 67 % in 2008. So that is a very tiny minutes. fall over for 18 years.
OFFICIAL NUTRITION STATISTICS: OUT OF More important to remember is that this is DATE only done every five years, that means the next reference here is 2013 but you won’t • The last National Nutrition Survey see the report until 2014 and after that it will (NNS) was in 2008: “... the percentage be 2018. So, in effect there will only be one of Filipino households with inadequate report during the President’s term. And to caloric intake decreased from 69.4 my mind that is the greatest impediment to percent in 1990 to 66.9 percent in 2008.” (Philippine doing something scientific about the problem unless they go Development Plan 2011-2016, p.236). through non-governmental data.
• The NNS is done every 5 years; next in 2013, then 2018, OFFICIAL POVERTY STATISTICS: OUT-OF-DATE etc. The NNS report comes out a year later. OFFICIAL POVERTY STATISTICS: OUT-OF-DATE SELF-RATED POVERTY: HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE “MAHIRAP”: PHILIPPINES, APR 1983 TO MAR 2011 • Official (NSCB) poverty data rely on the Family Income MARCOS C. AQUINO RAMOS ESTRADA ARROYO B. AQUINO and Expenditure Survey, done only every 3 years, the 70 Self-Rated Poverty latest in 2009. The NSCB 2009 poverty estimate came out in Feb 2011; thus the NSCB 2012 poverty estimate 60 s will most likely come out only in Feb 2014. ld 51% o 50 eh • In 2009, the NSCB lowered (“refined”) its poverty line, s u o 40 h Official (NSCB) and classified 20.9% of families as poor, versus 26.3% f Poverty Incidence* o 30 with the original poverty line. % 26% 20 (21%) • Poverty was flat in 2003/2006/2009, despite a 24% “Refined” Official (NSCB) increase in real GNP per capita. 10 Poverty Incidence, 2-08-11
0 1983 1986 1992 1998 2001 2004 2010
Self-Rated Poverty Question: Where would you place your family in this card? (Not poor, On the line, Poor) Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines *Note: The NSCB figures, which compare income of the year to the official poverty line, are plotted in June of the year. 3 Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines
8 • Official (NSCB) poverty data rely on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, done only every 3 years, the This title “Out of Date” is not only a current state, but it will latest in 2009. The NSCB 2009 poverty estimate came always be this way, it will always be out of date. That is what out in Feb 2011; thus the NSCB 2012 poverty estimate I want to emphasize. It will always be out of date because will most likely come out only in Feb 2014. the current available information is from the 2008 National Nutrition Survey that became available not earlier than late • In 2009, the NSCB lowered (“refined”) its poverty line, 2009. I don’t remember exactly but I first came across it last and classified 20.9% of families as poor, versus 26.3% with year. the original poverty line.
It says that the the percentage of Filipino households with (Turn to page 12) 11 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Poverty Situation....(from page 11) 19.2 • 2010Q1/Q2 average %: 21.1 • Poverty was flat in 2003/2006/2009, despite a 24% • 2010Q3: 15.9%; 2010Q4: 18.1%; average 17.0 increase in real GNP per capita. • 2011Q1: 20.5%; 2011Q2: 15.1%; average 17.8
The Official Poverty Statistics are also always out of date. This On hunger, we have been monitoring this quarterly since the is to my mind is deliberate because the scheduling is only middle of 1998 ; and the latest report was for June 2011, once every two years and the last one was in 2009. The report which we reported two weeks ago. There was a downward on that 2009 survey was only released last February, so it trend from 2001 to 2003 and I have put the average for you takes about a year and one third to find out what happened. to see: 11.4, 10.1 and 7.0, very nice looking decrease in hunger from 2001 to 2003. The next reference here is this 2012 and so you can expect the report also in February 2014. Unfortunately, it turned around for the next 6 years: 11.8, 14.3, 16.7, 17.9, 18.5 and 19.2, an unabated increase in hunger Incidentally, the next report at 2011, February 2011 with a for those years. I’m talking of the average for the whole year report in May 2011 concerning 2009. That is actually a given four measures per year. I’m not talking of each and statistical manipulation if you want to blunt about it, which every little change , but some of those are up and some are resulted in lowering the measure of poverty from 26.3% to down . But that is the average which take away those little 20.9%. It’s like removing 5% in one shot. And the only reason changes. is, so that we would not look bad compared to other countries. Up to the first half of last year, in other words, it was still the So that means, for the last three years, official data are 2003, GMA period, it was 21.1. So you had some 11.8 to 21.1 which 2006 and 2009. In that period, poverty was flat, it did not is three times the 7.0 of 2003. So imagine the massive improve. I’ll show you a chart later on worsening of hunger was tripling.
It did not improve despite a 24% increase in real GNP per DEGREE OF HUNGER IN HOUSEHOLDS, capita that is divided by the population already. So there was PHILIPPINES: JUL 1998 TO JUN 2011 – INSERT SLIDE 7 growth by 24% but nothing happened to poverty according to government statistics. And therefore, there is no effect. One cannot expect any effect from sheer economic growth ESTRADA/ARROYO/AQUINO on poverty because nothing happened despite the growth.
Now, from there, I will of course bring you to SWS statistics because it is our mission in society to fill in missing data. We DEGREE OF HUNGER IN HOUSEHOLDS, PHILIPPINES have known about these for 25 years but there has not been Mode- Se- Mode- Se- Mode- Se- Total rate vere Total rate vere Total rate vere a change in the government system of measurement all that July 98 8.9% 5.7% 3.2% Mar 03 6.7% 5.9% 0.8% Mar 08 15.7% 12.5% 3.2% Sep 98 9.7 6.0 3.7 Jun 03 6.6 5.1 1.5 Jun 08 16.3 12.1 4.2 period of time. Nov 98 14.5 9.2 5.3 Sep 03 5.1 4.0 1.2 Sep 08 18.4 15.2 3.2 Ave. 98 11.0 7.0 4.1 Nov 03 9.4 6.8 2.6 Ave. 03 7.0 5.5 1.5 Dec 08 23.7 18.5 5.2 Mar 99 7.7 5 2.7 Ave. 08 18.5 14.6 4.0 Jun 99 8.1 5.4 2.7 Mar 04 7.4 4.6 2.8 Oct 99 6.5 5.1 1.5 Jun 04 13.0 9.2 3.7 Aug 04 15.1 11.8 3.3 Feb 09 15.5 11.1 4.4 SWS HUNGER STATISTICS Dec 99 11 7.6 3.4 Jun 09 20.3 16.0 4.3 Ave. 99 8.3 5.8 2.6 Dec 04 11.5 9.1 2.2 Ave. 04 11.8 8.7 3.0 Sep 09 17.5 14.5 3.0 • Quarterly Jul 1998-present; latest Jun 2011. Mar 00 10.5 4.9 5.4 Oct 09 18.8 15.0 3.8 Mar 05 13.0 10.4 2.5 Jul 00 11.2 6.3 5.0 May 05 12.0 9.2 2.9 Dec 09 24.0 19.3 4.7 • Downward 2001-2003 average %: 11.4, 10.1, 7.0 Sep 00 8.8 5 3.8 Aug 05 15.5 12.9 2.6 Ave. 09 19.2 15.2 4.0 Dec 00 12.7 8.5 4.2 Dec 05 16.7 12.8 3.9 Ave. 00 10.8 6.2 4.6 Ave. 05 14.3 11.3 3.0 Mar 10 21.2 18.4 2.8 • Upward 2004-2009 average %: 11.8, 14.3, 16.7, 17.9, 18.5, Jun 10 21.1 16.9 4.2 Mar 01 16.1 10.1 6.0 Mar 06 16.9 12.7 4.2 Jul 01 9.8 6.1 3.7 Jun 06 13.9 10.1 3.4 Sep 10 15.9 12.9 3.1 Sep 01 9.3 5.7 3.6 Sep 06 16.9 12.3 4.6 Nov 10 18.1 15.0 3.1 Nov 01 10.4 7.1 3.3 Nov 06 19.0 15.1 3.9 Ave. 10 19.1 15.8 3.3 Ave. 01 11.4 7.3 4.2 Ave. 06 16.7 12.6 4.0 Mar 02 11.1 7.5 3.6 Feb 07 19.0 15.0 4.0 Mar 11 20.5 15.7 4.7 May 02 11.5 8.4 3.1 Jun 07 14.7 12.5 2.2 Jun 11 15.1 13.1 2.0 Sep 02 8.8 7.3 1.6 Sep 07 21.5 17.4 4.1 SWS HUNGER STATISTICS Nov 02 9.0 7.3 1.7 Dec 07 16.2 12.9 3.3 AVERAGE Ave. 02 10.1 7.6 2.5 Ave. 07 17.9 14.5 3.4 HUNGER 13.8 10.4 3.4 Note: Don’t Know and Refused responses are not shown. (07/98-06/11) Q: Nitong nakaraang 3 buwan, nangyari po ba kahit minsan na ang inyong pamilya ay nakaranas ng gutom at wala • Quarterly Jul 1998-present; latest Jun 2011. kayong makain? KUNG OO: Nangyari po ba ‘yan ng MINSAN LAMANG, MGA ILANG BESES, MADALAS, o PALAGI? • Downward 2001-2003 average %: 11.4, 10.1, 7.0 Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines • Upward 2004-2009 average %: 11.8, 14.3, 16.7, 17.9, 7 18.5, 19.2 Under the current administration, these are the four • 2010Q1/Q2 average %: 21.1 measures: 15.9, 18.1; earlier this year 20.5 and then just now, • 2010Q3: 15.9%; 2010Q4: 18.1%; average 17.0 15.1, which was released two weeks ago. • 2011Q1: 20.5%; 2011Q2: 15.1%; average 17.8 So you have, 15.9, 18.1, 20.5 and 15.1. So , the last twelve months we have about 17.5%
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than 50. You have to look at the whole series and not just these last two points which the newspapers have over-stated. So, with respect to this indicator , there is a downward trend but this not less than needed to satisfy the Millenium SELF-RATED POVERTY: HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE “MAHIRAP”: Development goals. PHILIPPINES, APR 1983 TO MAR 2011 MARCOS, C. AQUINO, RAMOS, ESTRADA, ARROYO, B. The Millenium Develeopment target is to have poverty to what AQUINO it was in 1980 regardless of how you measure it by 2015.
So if in 1990, it was 68, then the goal would be to make it 34 by 2015. That’s the meaning of the Millenium Development SELF-RATED POVERTY: HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE “MAHIRAP”: PHILIPPINES, APR 1983 TO MAR 2011 goal: reduce it by half from what you had in 1990.
MARCOS C. AQUINO RAMOS ESTRADA ARROYO B. AQUINO Well, we are only at most in the upper 40. We have never 70 Self-Rated Poverty reached the lower 40s. What we need to do is go into the
60 mid 30s. That is the way to satisfy the millennium ds development goals. l 50 51% ho se u o 40 Official (NSCB) h SELF-RATED FOOD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLDS WHO f Poverty Incidence* o 30 % 26% EXPERIENCED HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS, SEP 1988 TO 20 (21%) MAR 2011 “Refined” Official (NSCB) 10 Poverty Incidence, 2-08-11 C. AQUINO, RAMOS, ESTRADA, ARROYO, B. AQUINO
0 1983 1986 1992 1998 2001 2004 2010 This is the SWS measure of hunger. The blue line is the total Self-Rated Poverty Question: Where would you place your family in this card? (Not poor, On the line, Poor) *Note: The NSCB figures, which compare income of the year to the official poverty line, are plotted in June of the year.
Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines SELF-RATED FOOD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLDS WHO EXPERIENCED HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS, SEP 1988 TO MAR 2011 8 With respect to poverty, and here is where we had a report C. AQUINO RAMOS ESTRADA ARROYO B. AQUINO last Friday. We have doing this for many years, twice a year Self-Rated Food Poverty 60 from 1986 – 1991 and then quarterly from 1992 to the present. This is the only way you can get an update poverty, 50 ds l 40 40% unless the government will just do its own thing but faster ho se u rather than only once every three years. I’m not complaining o 30 fh Official (NSCB) Food about their procedure, I’m just complaining that it is too slow. o Poverty Incidence * Hunger %20 20.5%
I have now put here the annual averages since I believe it is 10
better than looking at the lines. You can see them from 86 01988 1992 1998 2001 2004 2010
Food Poverty Question: Based on the type of food eaten by your family, where would you place your family on this card? (Not poor, On the line, P oor). down to the latest figures; this is the new one, 49% that was Hunger Question: In the last three months, did it happen even once that your family experienced hunger and not have anything to eat? (Yes, No). released last Friday. *Note: The NSCB figures, which compare income of the year to the official food poverty line, are plotted in June of the year. Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines
Over time, there has been decreases. There was a very nice 10 47”in 1987 . This was the time when the new constitution was declared in 1987 and people did not feel poor. And by hunger; the green is the moderate portion; and the red is the the way, there was no inflation in 1987. severe portion. The severe portion is relatively low even by historical standards. The long-term average is 3.4% ; the But in the rest of the 80’s, you will see poverty in the 60s , as moderate however, is still above; the long-term average is at high as 68% . 10.
In the 90’s, we began to see it go down to the lower 60s and This is something which is volatile, of course. The most then the 50s. important determinant is inflation, especially food price.
Here in 2003, that’s the last time you could see it in the 60s.
In 2004, thankfully, it has been in the 50s. This is the chart for poverty. This is the new 49%, it’s not the lowest ever. We have reached a little below 45 at one time. And now for the last three years, it’s been 50 or slightly less But there is a very very gradual, not steady, but erratic drop 13 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
That is their own recomputation , just to explain what the SELF-RATED FOOD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLDS WHO EXPERIENCED effect is. But whichever computation you want to use, you HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS, SEP 1988 TO MAR 2011
C. A QUINO RAMOS ESTRADA ARROYO B . AQUINO can see that it is flat. In fact, that is generous to call it flat
S elf-Rated Food Poverty from 2003 to 2006 to 2009. 60 50 So, this is why I keep on emphasizing that economic growth ds l 40 40% ho is not the way to fight poverty. It’s not how much growth you se u o 30 h Official (NSCB) Food f have, it’s what kind of what growth it should be in order to o P overty Inc idence * H un ge r %20 20.5% be able to fight poverty properly.
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Food P ov ert y Q uest ion: B ased on the t ype of f ood eaten by your family , where would you place y our family on this c ard? (N ot poor, O n the line, P oor). EXPERIENCED HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS Hunger Q uest ion: I n the last t hree months, did it happen ev en onc e that your family experi enc ed hunger and not have anyt hi ng t o eat ? (Yes, N o). *Note: The NS CB figures , whic h compare inc ome of t he year to t he of fic ial food povert y line, are pl ot ted in J une of the y ear. Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines Now, this is putting together food poverty in general. And 10 the hunger that I showed you earlier. This is a paradox that from the 60 to a little below 50. there could be increase in suffering. This is literal suffering from hunger because we are using “gutom” as our term. This Here are the original, unrefined government figures on one refers to asking about “kung mahirap ang kanilang poverty. pagkain” and that is affected also by the fact that the amount of spending people pay in order for their food not to be SELF-RATED FOOD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLDS WHO mahirap is actually going down. There is a lot of belt- EXPERIENCED HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS, SEP 1988 TO tightening. MAR 2011 SELF-RATED FOOD POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLDS WHO C. AQUINO RAMOS ESTRADA ARROYOB. EXPERIENCED HUNGER: TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS
Sel f- O ffi - Sel f- O ffi- Sel f- O ffi- Sel f- Offi- AQUINO R ated cial H un ger R ated cial Hun ger R ated cial Hun ger R ated cial Hun ger F oo d F oo d In ci- F oo d F oo d In ci- F o od F oo d In ci- F o od F oo d In ci- Po v. Po v. d ence Po v. Po v. d ence Po v. Po v. d ence Pov. Po v. d ence C. AQ U IN O ESTRADA (cont) ARROY O (cont) ARROY O (cont) JUN 8 8 20 .3 NOV 9 8 48 14 .5 NOV 0 2 56 9 .0 SEP 0 7 43 21 .5 SEP 8 8 51 A ve. 9 8 49 11 .0 A ve. 0 2 56 10 .1 DEC 0 7 34 16 .2 It went up from 2003 to 2006 and by 2009 it did not even A ve. 8 8 51 20 .3 MAR 9 9 7 .7 MAR 0 3 51 6 .7 A ve. 0 7 38 17 .9 FEB 8 9 52 JUN 9 9 8 .0 JUN 0 3 46 1 0.2 6 .6 MAR 0 8 40 15 .7 SEP 8 9 50 OCT 9 9 6 .5 SEP 0 3 55 5 .1 JUN 0 8 49 16 .3 recover from 2003, so that is why you say that there has been A ve. 8 9 51 DEC 9 9 47 11 .0 NOV 0 3 58 9 .4 SEP 0 8 38 18 .4 APR 9 0 57 A ve. 9 9 47 8 .3 A ve. 0 3 53 7 .0 DEC 0 8 42 23 .7 A ve. 9 0 57 MAR 0 0 10 .5 MAR 0 4 51 7 .4 A ve. 0 8 42 18 .5 JUN 9 1 20 .4 APR 0 0 42 6 .8 JUN 0 4 35 13 .0 FEB 0 9 36 15 .5 no improvement in 2003-2009 even if you look at the A ve. 9 1 20 .4 JUL 0 0 11 .2 AUG 0 4 43 15 .1 JUN 0 9 39 20 .3 JUN 0 0 16 .8 DEC 0 4 41 11 .5 SEP 0 9 41 17 .5 RAMOS A ve. 0 4 43 11 .8 OCT 0 9 40 18 .9 DEC 9 3 57 SEP 0 0 8 .8 government figures. DEC 0 0 47 12 .7 MAR 0 5 37 13 .0 DEC 0 9 39 24 .0 A ve. 9 3 57 A ve. 0 0 45 10 .0 M AY 0 5 49 12 .0 A ve. 0 9 39 19 .2 APR 9 4 59 AUG 0 5 37 15 .5 MAR 1 0 31 21 .2 JUN 9 4 18 .1 ARROYO DEC 0 5 43 16 .7 JUN 1 0 38 21 .1 Here in the big numbers that is the new defined poverty. A ve. 9 4 59 18 .1 MAR 0 1 49 16 .1 A ve. 0 5 42 14 .3 SEP 9 6 50 B. A Q UIN O JUL 0 1 54 9 .8 MAR 0 6 40 16 .9 A ve. 9 6 50 SEP 0 1 54 9 .3 JUN 0 6 45 1 1.0 13 .9 SEP 1 0 38 15 .9 This is the 5% government’s correction that I told you about JUN 9 7 16 .2 NOV 0 1 55 10 .4 SEP 0 6 43 16 .9 NOV 1 0 36 18 .1 A ve. 9 7 16 .2 A ve. 0 1 53 11 .4 NOV 0 6 40 19 .0 A ve. 1 0 36 19 .1 ESTRADA MAR 0 2 52 11 .1 A ve. 0 6 42 16 .7 MAR 11 40 20 .5 which does not satisfy me. I don’t see how they can suddenly JUL 9 8 49 8 .9 M AY 0 2 56 11 .5 FEB 0 7 39 19 .0 SEP 9 8 9 .7 SEP 0 2 59 8 .8 JUN 0 7 37 14 .7 decide that proportioned poor should be cut from 26% to *Note : The NSCB figures, which compare income o f the yea r to th e official food po verty line, a re plotted in Ju ne of the year. Source s: Socia l We ather Station s; NSC B Official Po verty Inciden ce base d on Family Inco me a nd Expe nditu re Surveys
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Self-Rated Food Poverty Even if there is inflation, they keep on saying that the P3,000 60 last year still , hanggang ngayon, kasya pa rin. Pero sa totoo, 50 mas kaunti ang nabibili. s ld o 40 40% h se So, that’s a very important qualification when you look at u o 30 fh Official (NSCB) Food these poverty figures : people think that they are poor. o Poverty Incidence * Hunger %20 20.5% Because when they say that, they have also lowered their
10 standards. It is not using the same standards as before, because what they tell us they need to spend is actually buying 0 1988 1992 1998 2001 2004 2010 less than it used to buy. Food Poverty Question: Based on the type of food eaten by your family, where would you place your family on this card? (Not poor, On the line, P oor). Hunger Question: In the last three months, did it happen even once that your family experienced hunger and not have anything to eat? (Yes, No). *Note: The NSCB figures, which compare income of the year to the official food poverty line, are plotted in June of the year. That, in a nutshell, is the update of poverty. Update on Hunger and Poverty in the Philippines
10 Marami pong salamat. 21%. These are not my computations. When the NSCB reported that it had defined the poverty line, we computed poverty 40 % down to about 28%. They also computed what it would have been if they had stayed with their old standards. 14 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 CHURCH’S PERSPECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONS HIS EXCELLENCY MOST REV. JOSE COLIN M. BAGAFORO, D.D. Auxiliary Bishop of Cotabato/ Member, BBC National Executive Committee
Ladies and Gentlemen, good afternoon. as that shared value between society and the corporation and from its At the outset, I would like to acknowledge prioritization in CSR can flow programs the newspaper column “Business and projects that will alleviate poverty Matters” of Mr. Felipe V. Alfonso which among the poorest families and has aided me in this discussion of promote integral human development, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). also with an orientation biased for the This helpful piece titled “What’s in a integrity of the family as the basic unit Name? appeared in the Philippine Daily of Philippine society. Inquirer of June 4, 2011. Given my limitation as a member of the In that column, Mr. Alfonso dissects clergy who can make no claim to various socio-civic corporate endeavors business acumen, financial expertise or and differentiates the varieties of economic specialization, please allow Corporate Social Responsibility activities me to raise some questions, suggest such as : corporate-giving, strategic broad stroke proposals and float some philanthropy, social sponsoring, pro-family ideas for your consideration. corporate citizenship and corporate community development. I. Family approach. Macro-economic policy plans and organizes national development in terms of individual as Our Inquirer columnist writes and describes Corporate Social units. Is it possible to orient economic planning to have Responsibility as it is now currently understood: “The thrust an outlook based not solely on individuals but also on is now to integrate these activities into the core business of families? How do economic policies impact on the the corporation. In this manner, both society and the Family? What are the social costs to families of economic corporation benefit from these activities. The focus now is to projects and programs in place? Can business lead in create shared value between the society and the corporation. developing a social philosophy that prioritizes the Family, CSR then becomes integral in the way it does its business.” not the individual both as an agent and beneficiary of economic development? Can micro-planning at the level In the current order of priorities of the Church today, no of private enterprise reflect and adopt such a pro-family institution and no socio-moral issues of the day take orientation? precedence on those that touch on the Family in importance and significance. Allow me to label this as the “Family Approach to National Development.” Gawad Kalinga’s winning formula of So central and crucial is this institution that the late Pope outreach to families so far has been very successful in John Paul II makes this observation: “The future of humanity helping the poor, household after household that it passes by way of the family.” It is also a fearful warning to us deserves to be enshrined as a principle in national that this Pope places our time as a “moment in history in economic planning manuals. which the family is the object of numerous forces that seek to destroy it or in some way to deform it” (Apostolic Families grouped together in the new paradigm of Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio) pastoral evangelization of establishing Basic Ecclesial Communities can form the backbone of productive Corporate Social Responsibility within a Catholic context must enterprises especially in rural areas. Instead of individuals reflect the fundamental importance the Church attaches to only as members, can whole households be the basic the Family as well as the necessary care and defense of the units of family cooperatives? basic cell of society. The Bangladesh model of feminist inspired financial Catholic CSR must necessarily include the Family as a concern, empowerment programs have women as exclusive (Turn to page 16 ) 15 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Church Perspective...(from page 15) already been ventilated by Pope John Paul II in Familiaris Consortio wherein he writes of the “the right to emigrate beneficiaries. Can CSR prioritize micro-finance as a family in search of a better life” in the Charter of enterprises for the family that are inclusive of the spouses Family Rights. To what extent can we realize this ideal in and children? Will not payment and amortization on the the real world? We will not know if we do not try. debt owed be more assured given that the family’s name and honor will be at stake in this credit arrangement and IV. The Family Farm Schools. This is a new school concept not just one particular member? Micro-finance then initiated in France, Belgium and Spain with the objective becomes a means of strengthening family unity while of providing technical training, human and social seeking to lift Filipino from the poverty line. I envision a development and spiritual and moral formation for rural BBC or BEC led Family Micro-Finance Outreach Program children. In the Philippines, there are around 7 family for the Rural Poor. Can we work towards this direction? farm schools as of 2009 and under the umbrella organization called: Pampamilyang Paaralan Agrikultura, II. The Right of the Family to a living Wage: The 1987 Inc (PPAI). These schools are located in: Balete Family Philippine Constitution enumerates in Section 3.3 of Farm School, Bo. Makina, Balete, Batangas; in Dagatan, Article XV that the State shall defend the right of the Lipa City; Bais City, Negros Oriental; Dingle, Iloilo; in family to family living wage and income. This imperative Roxas, Oriental Mindoro; and in Bo. Koreo, Sultan Naga of the Church’s social doctrine can very well be the Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte. yardstick of how committed a company Just to get a is to CSR, as the glimpse of what is actualization or this Family Farm approximation of a School, attached in livable compensation this presentation is package to employees the Balete Family is a demonstration Farm School indeed as to the extent Brochure (Appendix that the CSR outlook A). It is a new school has taken root in a conceived with a business. The vision of forming company first practices graduates who shall CSR internally what it be … “potential proposes to the larger entrepreneurs” and community. CSR in will become such a company that “catalysts of change pays a family living in the local wage to all its employees becomes integral the way it community.” does business. Can BBC explore more ways of partnership with III. Overseas Employment by Families: Is it possible to Pampamilyang Paaralan Agrikultura, Inc (PPAI)? Let us include in our overseas manpower deployment programs keep our rural families intact and productive. In our the search and development of labor markets that take context, Rural Development is the back bone of economic in entire families as employees? Can government and progress. business work to facilitate the employment and migration of entire families to prevent the further physical break- In the Pastoral Letter of the Bishops on Evangelization up of spouses from one another and of parents from their and Development issued last July 25, 1973, I quote: children? Can we for instance make it a matter of policy to undertake a continuous search for foreign employers “Every effort at evangelization must take account of the who will take in a family in their employ, the father as real life of the people at whom it is directed. It must driver, the mother as maid, the son as gardener and the start from their life, their needs, their problems and their daughter as seamstress, for instance? Tall order some aspirations. Then it must go on to reveal and develop in may say. The many cases of marital infidelity and the them the vales of the Gospel – particularly the Sermon consequent separation of the spouses arising from on the Mount and Chapter 25 of Saint Matthew’s Gospel overseas employment however, should urge us on to keep – (Pastoral Letter on Evangelization and Development, devising ways to help families. Given that some may scoff CBCP, 25 July 1973). Family Farm Schools as a concrete at this proposition as somewhat quixotic, this ideal has (Turn to page 17) 16 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Church Perspective...(from page 16) life, wealthy people can better understand the needs of poor ones; they cannot avoid employing huge economic and response to rural realities can clearly be an exercise in intellectual resources to satisfy the selfish desires of their own the Church’s preferential option for poor families. A wide citizens” (Caritas Veritate) field of engagement in evangelization and development opens up for CSR for family life in the far flung barrios of Without a pro-life mentality and a pro-family outlook, true the archipelago. and integral development is an illusion.
V. Pro-Family Advocacy: On a very urgent and imperative Enlightened by the pastoral wisdom of the Papacy, Catholic note, I would like to propose that Catholic CSR lead the CSR can infuse authentic values in the civic and corporate life way in family advocacy programs. The anti-life forces of the country which secular CSR cannot and will not attempt are foreign funded and technocratically managed and for lack of the insight and guidance on the reality of the serious these account for their effectiveness in lobbying for such dangers confronting the Filipino Family. This is where the anti-family legislation as the RH Bill. Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference can make a difference.
John Paul II delineates: “The social role of families is called Maraming Salamat po. upon to find expression also in the form of political intervention: families should be the first to take steps to see that the laws and institutions of the State not only do not offend but support and positively defend the rights and duties of the family. Along these lines, families should grow in awareness of being “protagonists” of what is known as “family politics” and assume responsibility for transforming society; otherwise families will be the first (Appendix A) victims of the evils that they have done no more than note with indifference.” (Familiaris Consortio) Balete Family Farm School, Inc.
Anti-Life legislation is regularly proposed in every We have been planting the seeds of a strong rural-based Congress that is convened and the reason why this is economy … possible and feasible is due to the massive amounts of But we need your help to sustain our mission. funding coming from abroad that is made available for political lobbying and propaganda. To continuously resist this attack on the family in the political forum, the pro- life apostolate must be managed on a professional basis The Family Farm School: A Tested Concept in a New and sustained with financial inputs. Setting
This is work cut out for Catholic CSR. Pro-life activism all This is a new school concept patterned after the Spanish these years has been kept alive by volunteerism. Even if Escuelas Familiares Agrarias (EFA) system, which has the Church defeats the RH Bill this year, the anti-life forces been proven in other countries for more than 50 years will just re-file their set piece of legislation and wage now. battle against the Church again and again. The dollars and euros flowing and financing this anti-life legislation The unorthodox but very practical methods of will exhaust the strength, physical and financial of our instructions conducted by the Family Farm School (FFS) protagonists in “family politics” if help is not forthcoming. are guided by four principles: John Paul II has given us our marching orders. It remains for us to carry on his fight for the family. The direct involvement of parents in their children’s education; I close with this note from Pope Benedict XVI: “Openness to life is at the center of true development. When a society • The alternating cycles of classes; moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up • The small group of students; and no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to • The promotion and development of the strive for man’s true good. If personal and social sensitivity community towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable to society also wither away. The acceptance of life strengthens moral fiber and makes people capable of mutual help. By cultivating openness to (Turn to page 18) 17 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Church Perspective...(from page 16)
NEEDS OF THE INSTITUTION
In order to carry out its objectives, BFFSI seeks the support OUR VISION and cooperation of everyone. Do help us in our work of promoting the rural countryside and fostering cooperation We, at the Family Farm Schools, envision all our graduates among the rural farmers through: to be intellectually equipped and sufficiently prepared to pursue higher education, gainful employment or an A fixed pledge given periodically (monthly, entrepreneurial undertaking and to participate in their • community development in agriculture, technology or a quarterly, semi-annually) to BFFSI. related field with moral and social responsibility. • An outright scholarship of individual students (full In 10 years time, we shall be a self-sustaining model school or partial sponsorship) to be coursed through and training ground for potential entrepreneurs who will BFFSI. be catalysts of change in the local community. • Material donations (e.g. furniture and other fixtures, school equipment and supplies, OUR MISSION agricultural tools and machines, books, etc.)
To achieve this, we shall: • Referrals to other persons and companies and institutions that may understand and support the • Provide quality integral education to potential project. entrepreneurs through its unique Family Farm School (FFS) system. “This unique system is a viable alternative to the “regular” secondary education and it’s highly specialized for rural • Advocate community development through a youths to acquire secondary and agricultural education. committed, active and fully supportive Balete It is intended to reduce the migration of farmers to the Family Farm Association, Inc. (BFFAI). already congested and job-tight urban centers by providing education that will be so geared to the farmers’ needs that those who will make their career decisions can see that OUR HISTORY farming is a profitable and dignified way of life.”
The Balete Family Farm School, Inc. (BFFSI), the first girl school and second of the six FFS currently operating in the Philippines started on June 18, 1990 with 15 students. It JDL and Co. was finally inaugurated on January 19, 1993 by President 1995 Survey of DFFS and BFFS Graduates Corazon C. Aquino.
18 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS AND PILIPINAS SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION MR. EDGAR O. CHUA Chairman and President PILIPINAS SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
Your excellencies, ladies and Planet and Profits” . It is not a question of profit gentlemen, friends from the business or people and planet. It must be “People, community, members of the clergy, Planet and Profits”. good afternoon. It’s good to be here . We can define it in two parts: one is in terms There are three of the clergy whom I of our portfolio and products. What do we would like to mention. Of course, Abp. mean by sustainable development? This is Ramon Arguelles, our spiritual leader making sure that the products we provide and in Batangas; Bp. Deogracias Iñiguez the world needs more energy is one which is who presided over my wedding almost clean; so we provide clean fuels; and one twenty three years ago; and of course, which is what we call sustainable . the most distinguished member of our Elementary and High School Class, Bp. As we said, it has to do with improving fuel Chito Tagle. efficiency; looking at renewables like biofuels. On its more basic part, we look at it in terms The word CSR in Shell actually is of our own operations. And here, it starts with embodied in what we call Sustainable Development. health and safety of our employees . We have what we call Goal Zero and this extends to the communities where we What I will do is give you a very brief background of our operate. company, of what we’re doing, its philosophy and give you some examples of CSR. So our operations must not in any way impact our staff nor of the communities where we operate. It also includes not Shell is actually operating in over 90 different countries and just safety. It is also about the environment where emissions we have more than 93,000 employees. Although we seem to and spills must always be controlled and prevented . And of be an oil and gas company, we’re primarily a gas company, course, social performance which is human rights and which we believe is the future because it’s the cleanest business ethics. And here when we mean business ethics , hydrocarbon available. We are also the biggest biofuel’s this is about good governance and addressing bribery and marketer in the world and we have an ethanol joint venture corruption. with Brazil. We are very strict in terms of where we buy ethanol. It has to be from a company that has not actually It is actually enshrined in our General Business Principles. In used or deprived ethanol competing with food, because the our General Business Principles, we say that there must be a dilemma is food versus fuel. balance between the long-term and short-term needs of the company, and of course, the environment must be there. In 2010, Shell actually spent over 100 million dollars in We must be a good neighbor, we must always be engaging monetary social contributions . And in the Philippines I am the various stakeholders. very happy to say that we actually disbursed close to 500 million pesos. A large part of it came from global funds which It involves working to manage our impact on local I will explain later on. communities, striving to deliver benefits such as jobs, business opportunities and social investments. So, Sustainable Development as defined by Gro Harlem Brundtland a former Prime Minister of Norway and former And when as I was listening to Bishop Bagaforo earlier about head of the World Commission on the Environment and family, I am very happy to say that in SHELL, when we move Development, is meeting the needs of the present generation people for a posting overseas, we strongly encourage that without compromising the ability of the future generations their bring their family. There is a financial incentive for them to meet their needs. to bring their family. We want them to be with their spouse as well as their children. And that is something which is very For us in Shell, we believe and we use three P’s “People, basic. (Turn to page 20 ) 19 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Corporate Social....(from page 19) • Measurable positive impact: socially, economically and environmentally; When we say Sustainable Development and Corporate Social • Inclusive: Responsibility at its most basic, it means philanthropy, which is about giving. But in our view, we need to actually move to what we call the Social Performance wedge, where from involving a range of stakeholder views and philanthropy we move to Strategic Social Investment. opinions; based on community needs and designed in consultation with local communities;
environmental profitability “…reduce the impact of our Consultation and active involvement of partners - “Long-term is essential…” operations, products and services…” • leveraging and catalysing support
“…be good neighbours… manage the social “…balancing short and long term interests…” impacts of our activities… enhance benefits to local We talk about partnership because no matter how big a communities…” corporation, is one cannot do it alone. It has to be together in partnership with quite a number of different stakeholders.
“…integrating economic, environmental and social “…regular dialogue and engagement with our For us in the business community, we partner with business considerations into business decision-making…” stakeholders is essential…” organizations like the PBSP, Philippine Business for Environment, League of Corporate Foundations, Philippine Eagle, different Chambers of Commerce, MAP and MBC.
I think companies must see Corporate Social Responsibility So you can see here that our thrust is actually to partner as an investment rather than as philanthropy which at times because in many cases, these groups already have the is seen as cost or as an expense. Whatever you do in terms of expertise and we can actually have more impact if there is being a good neighbor and improving the environment, is partnership with different groups. actually one which is an investment for the long-term. We also see the need for managing the social impact of our One of the things that make us very proud of in Shell is that operations. we have what we call the Pilipinas Shell Foundation which was formed in 1982. The objective at that time was again In terms of Business Criteria, whenever we are asked to Capacity building for out-of-school youths. We offered support a social investment program, we look at a number of scholarships for agriculture and vocational skills. things: GAS MO, BUKAS KO • Alignment with business activities and evaluation of benefit Another program which has been very successful is what we • Obtaining recognition by special and general publics
• Limiting business commitment and dependency Gas Mo, Bukas Ko (Your Gas, My Future) • Ability to involve staff and other resources of business • Demonstrating leadership
In every project we do, whether it is about livelihood, health, environment or safety, our attempt is to actually make it sustainable whereby at some point in time, there will be an “You are given this opportunity to be what you want to be. Use this opportunity to make a change in your lives. This is just the start for all of us, and we are very exit strategy. We do not want the community to be dependent glad to partner with Shell and the Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. in this program for the dependents of members of various transport groups.” -- on us because that is not the point of capacity building. It is Congressman Vigor Mendoza of 1-UTAK party list, during the launch of the GMBK II program for the dependents of members of transport groups ACTO, ALTODAP about making them capable of actually supporting themselves and FEJODAP. at some future time.
Copyright o f INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE MOST CONFIDENTIAL 16 Up to two lines if re quired That is one of the criteria in our Sustainable development criteria. It is call Gas Mo, Bukas Ko – a scholarship program for Shell retail station forecourt attendants. We provide them with a six- • Delivering lasting benefits and be self-supporting month scholarship training in TESDA. The GMBK program has after Shell participation ends; (Turn to page 21) 20 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Corporate Social....(from page 20) addressing this is improving the skills of the teachers which we have been doing in Batangas, Manila and Palawan. produced a total of 1,000 graduates since it started in 2005. Aside from GMBK, Shell has a long history of producing We have tracked the results and students of these teachers scholars through the scholarship programs run by the Pilipinas have actually improved in terms of their English proficiency. Shell Foundation Inc (PSFI) where the current count stands at 68,724 scholarship beneficiaries since it started in 1982. So ,we see it as helping especially with the increase in call centers for the country. This is something quite important. We have also expanded this to include drivers of our trucks. Pilipinas Shell Distribution - Road Transport (DRT) puts its MOVEMENT AGAINST MALARIA haulers at the centre of its DRIVE (Driver Reward and Incentive) program, a technical/vocational or livelihood In Health, we have found ourselves involved in this. In 2000, scholarship program for qualified dependents of current, when we started exploration of natural gas in regular drivers of contracted hauliers of DRT. Palawan, Shell, together with CHEVRON and PNOC went there and asked what the communities needed. They said they We believe that this is our contribution to actually improve needed schools and hospitals but more importantly to help the lot of the community, especially the public utility drivers them address malaria. because at the end of the day they are our biggest customers. Shell is not a medical company, we are an oil , energy GAWAD KALINGA company. What we did was to provide them 1) case detection
We have been very active in Gawad Kalinga. We have two communities in Batangas, one in Leyte and another one with the aetas in Central Luzon. This is one example of moving from philanthropy which is building homes which is where we started. But now, we have
and treatment; 2) control of transmission – by providing them chemically treated mosquito nets; and 3) social mobilization.
In 2006: US$13 million-Global Fund Grant was awarded to actually moved to what we call Social Investment because PSFI to carry out malaria control in top 5 Philippine provinces giving them homes is one thing; but the problem is the need with the highest malaria incidence – giving birth to a national for food and livelihood. program to eradicate malaria, the Movement Against Malaria (MAM). MAM has been instrumental in reducing malaria So we have moved to what we call Bayan-anihan where we mortality by 90% and morbidity by over 60% in these teach those in the rural areas, farming. The idea indeed is to provinces encourage them to stay and not move to the urban centers where many of them become informal settlers. 2010: US$31.4 million-Global Fund Grant was again awarded to PSFI to further expand the malaria program to 40 provinces We have been providing training on farming. Of late, we have that remain affected by the disease. program aimed at also provided support to the Center for Social Innovation in eradicating malaria in the Philippines by 2020. Angat where there are many young entrepreneurs partnering with local communities and trying to see how they can convert We have been very successful in reducing malaria morbidity. these people to become small or micro-entrepreneurs. There has been a significant drop . Education is the greatest equalizer but unfortunately for public schools, the quality of education has been dropping, especially communication which is English. The quickest way of (Turn to page 22) 21 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Corporate Social....(from page 21) We see that Philippines will achieve its Millennium Development target for malaria by 2014, one year ahead of the plan because we have been successful in working together.
This is not about Shell. It is about partnering with DOH, looking at how we can make it sustainable. The key here is that when we leave, that this is going to continue and this
Movement Against Malaria (MAM) Program Milestones
Pasig River Rehabilitation
One of our major programs is Pasig River. Everyone knows what the state of Pasig River is . It is reflective of the state of the country. If we are able to fix Pasig River, then it is a very positive sign that we can fix the country.
I am optimistic that we can do that.
Round 5 Provinces Round 6 and RCC M alaria Free/Others Target Provinces Cop yright o f INSERT COM PANY NAM E HE RE MOST CONF IDEN TIAL Up to two lin es if re quired Estero de Paco will continue because the microscopies are actually locals. We have adopted Estero de Paco together with the group of Gina Lopez . ABS-CBN Foundation (AFI) is the main So this is a very good success story. organization backing the Kapit Bisig Para Sa Ilog Pasig (KBPIP), a project that aims to rehabilitate and develop the most We have been able to get recognition for that in the Asian critical vein in the Metro Manila River Basin, the Pasig River. CSR Awards in 2010. KBPIP is a big project which gathered a multi-sectoral partnership among the government, non-government SAFETY organizations, academe and the private sector.
We worked with Grade 5 students whom we taught Road Polytechnic Univesity of the Philippines Safety , i.e.: on ho w to cross and what the road signs are and Green Scholars tips on safe driving.
Philippine Global Road Safety Partnership (PGRSP)
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) gathered members of various sectors of society to establish the Philippine Global Road Safety Partnership (PGRSP), the local counterpart of GRSP, a global organization promoting road safety.
GRSP is a global partnership between business, civil society and government organizations collaborating to improve road safety conditions around the world.
The DOTC leads this initiative in the country.
ENVIRONMENT In line with its commitment to protect and preserve the environment, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (PSPC) once again partnered with the Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) (Turn to page 23) 22 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Corporate Social....(from page 22) The need is huge because they do not get any support from government. and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) to undertake an important initiative towards the education and In order to provide them with a sustainable support, Pilipinas development of youth advocates on various environmental Shell Petroleum Corporation, in partnership with Philips issues and what they can do to make a difference. Dubbed as Electronics and Lighting, Inc., we changed the lighting in the Shell Green Scholars, 100 students from PUP underwent Hospicio because apparently their electricity bill is about a rigorous selection process to attain the PSPC scholarship P500,000 a month. grant to be trained in various environmental modules, including the Clean River Zone strategy of SPM geared towards Right after we changed the lighting there , the bill was reduced the revival and preservation of the Pasig River. by 20% which is P100,000 a month savings.
Philippine Eagle Foundation We are very happy with this result and so are the nuns.
We have bind up with the Philippine Eagle Foundation. We We are looking at doing this in other orphanages because have not only adopted two eagles . We have also done an this is going to help the orphanages in terms of sustainability. advocacy program - ‘Project Kalumbata’ which is an Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign SUMMARY on the importance of the Philippine Eagle and the various conservation and protection efforts being implemented by • For Shell, contributing to sustainable development the PEF on this endangered species. means helping meet the world’s growing need for energy in economically, socially and environmentally The IEC campaign focused on communities within and around responsible ways. the Mt. Kitanglad Natural Park in Bukidnon. • SD is a mindset in our company, embedded in our Business Principles that everyone must understand Shell has been a staunch supporter of the PEF since its and practice. adoption of the Philippine Eagles Pag-asa in 1992 and Magiting in 2005. • Our social performance involves minimizing the impacts of our operations and contributing to the positive development of the communities that we affect. Hospicio de San Jose Energy Efficiency Partnership • It is about integrating social and environmental considerations into our business decision-making. It One program which we’re very happy with is the program should not be just about profits, but about people with Hospicio de San Jose. My family and I actually support and the planet. Hospicio de San Jose on a personal capacity.
In one of BBC’s early pronouncements, it mentioned development, justice , liberation all together in one hand. One cannot do without the other
We also believe the same way.
We are a partner of the country in powering progress together.
Thank you very much for giving is this opportunity in making this presentation.
23 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 THE CHALLENGE TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY MR. CHRISTIAN S MONSOD Consultant, MERALCO Co-Vice Chairman, BBC National Executive Committee
More than 40 years ago, in September Well, as they say, it is time for the business 1971, 35 bishops and 30 businessmen community to pay the piper. These challenges established the BBC and issued a are as valid today as they were 40 years ago, Consensus Statement committing and paradoxically, even more challenges are themselves to pursue total human called for by the times. development where the material needs of people are provided while justice and In 1986, fifteen years later at EDSA, that Christian love are made to prevail in the glorious defining moment when bishops and national community. businessmen in overwhelming numbers helped restore democracy, it felt like a new The timing of BBC was propitious. The dawn had come, that justice and liberation ominous clouds of martial law were were finally within our grasp. We even wrote looming in the horizon. But the context a new Constitution whose heart, according of the Statement was timeless – it was to its President former justice Cecilia Munoz about justice. It called on both Palma, was its provisions on social justice. “ecclesiastics and laymen to speak out against injustice and to see to it, by Then we went our separate ways to our practical and persevering action, and by separate causes. And as we left it to those the witness of their lives, that justice is done to every man”, a we elected to carry out the lofty promises for social reform, phrase which is part of the oath of office of the President. we lost something of the dream of a nation. Occasionally, we came together on political issues, as in 1992 to assure the There was, in the words of the Statement, exploitation of the peaceful electoral transfer of presidential power and again in many by man, unjust economic relationships that engenders the 2006 campaign against a constitutional change whose dependence of tenant to landlord and of employee to agenda was suspect as more self-aggrandizement than employer, inequitable distribution of burdens and benefits, national interest. But the social reform agenda was no longer graft and corruption. And it seemed then that the country at the forefront of a joint advocacy, certainly not on the same was faced with two false choices – liberal capitalism where terms and urgency that EDSA meant to the poor. The forces man is a mere economic commodity and communism that of the status quo proved to be too well-entrenched in the generates hatred of man for man. leadership elite, even in the white knights and Joan of Arcs of our deliverance from a dictatorship. Thus, the challenge to business was to combine the criterion of profit from thepoint of view of private enterprise with the Thus, in 1992, another Social Pact was entered into by the .....”the challenge to business is to combine the criterion of profit from the point of view of private enterprise with the criterion of social desirability from the point of view of the well-being of the national community.” criterion of social desirability from the point of view of the BBC, Makati Business Club, the Council of the Laity, the Asian well-being of the national community. The challenge was to Institute of Management and the Center for Research and make the common interest of the whole community its own Communications, in response to the call of Pope John Paul II self- interest. In the end, the Statement said - justice and during his visit to the Philippines in 1991 for a new form of liberation is development and development is justice and solidarity that….. applies “the principle of stewardship in the liberation. management, use and sharing of earth’s resources”. (Turn to page 25 ) 24 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
The Challenge.....(from page 24) which should be its ultimate beneficiaries, were not part of the process. Its formulation was left to Business and Academe But the Social Pact died a quiet death despite the impressive with no grounding at the level where poverty and functional names of its signatories and despite the many legislative justice are daily and deadly challenges. Hence, the rather measures and programs that, we are told, it inspired. simplistic solution in the Pact that addressing poverty boils down to “the Economic Man (meaning the poor) should Maybe it failed because stewardship was more than what produce more so he can earn more so he can spend more for his needs.” Today, we cannot make the same mistakes in defining our ....”justice and liberation challenges. is development and Twenty-five years after EDSA, poverty and gross inequalities continue to confront us. Our society is still feudalistic, development is justice and dominated by a leadership elite that manages to rotate among themselves the levers of power regardless of whose turn it is liberation.” in government. Today, we are still two different worlds in one nation – the world of the few with gated communities, the businessmen could accept with respect to their access to superior education, first world health care, private entitlements, Maybe it was because they believed too much parks and leisure areas; and the world of the many with urban in the now-discredited paradigm that economic progress will hovels and rural huts, inferior public schools, playgrounds that ultimately address poverty and that a “market-driven” double as public streets and highways, poorly-equipped and approach to development will make it happen efficiently. poorly-manned public health centers and marginal access to public office. It was not until later that it sank into our consciousness what Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel Peace Laureate in Economics said Until those two worlds become one, we cannot speak of about markets – that the efficient outcomes of the market solidarity. Until we share the same common spaces, until the were preconditioned on adjusting the starting positions of the stakeholders.1 Not only the obvious ones like the redis- ....“until there is a larger purpose tribution of property, but also the quality of the education and the health care that would truly empower the poor to to what we do, when citizens compete in the open market. Otherwise, the poor would con- finally bring the habits of the tinue to be locked in the vicious cycle of property and the gross disparities of income, wealth and power would likely heart to public life and find a become worse before it is corrected, hopefully over the long- run. But as Lord John Maynard Keynes, the father of modern way to cultivate civic virtue,” we economics reminds us - “over the long-run, we are all dead.” cannot speak of solidarity...”
Moreover, the Social Pact gave equal time to the ordinary children of the poor get the same quality education and health concerns of business, which may be legitimate but have no care as ours and have a better than even chance to get out of place in an agenda for social change. The Pact considered as the vicious cycle of poverty and inequality, we cannot speak equal in urgency the Central Bank losses, high interest rates, of solidarity. This vision is beyond the voluntary community intermediation problems, the flyover vs. public transport social projects representing 1/3 of 1% of our net profits. It is systems, exchange rate policy. That these concerns in 1992 more than the call for more government expenditures for have since been successfully addressed but the poverty and classrooms and books. It is about schools that are so good gross disparities are still with us shows how inconsequential that the rich want to enroll their children in them. About these were to the substantive changes that are central to health care at the barangays whose services compare any social pact. favorably with Makati Medical Center. About parks where the children of the rich and poor can play together in harmony and about housing of more than thirty square meters for a family of five with a ten sq. meter vegetable garden patch to “Today, we cannot make the provide nutrition. To paraphrase Michael Sandel in his same mistakes in defining our inspired book on Justice, “until there is a larger purpose to what we do, when citizens finally bring the habits of the heart challenges.” to public life and find a way to cultivate civic virtue,” we cannot speak of solidarity and of ourselves as one nation. We may Finally, the Social Pact died a quiet death because the poor, (Turn to page 26) 25 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
The Challenge.....(from page 25) be open to discarding certain long-held beliefs that, we are never get there in our lifetime but making the journey is half told by the UNRISD in its 2010 study “Combating Poverty and the battle won. Inequality”, have been proven to be wrong or inadequate to How do we start? the task. Such as the notion that it is possible to address poverty without addressing inequality, that it is enough to First of al, we must listen to the poor. The poor are not asking provide “equality of opportunity” or a “fair process” without for equality, but only for more equity, and for justice. That is, being too concerned about “outcomes” or in engaging in after all, a moral duty of those who make the decisions and voluntary corporate social responsibility activities. establish the priorities of our society. In the words of Pope On the contrary, the study says: a socially inclusive structural Benedict the XXVI2 - charity goes beyond justice because to change is what makes for sustainable development, reducing love is to give… but… “I cannot ‘give’ what is mine to the other, income inequality is essential for poverty reduction and, more without first giving him what pertains to him in justice.” germane to our discussions today, the corporate social responsibility agenda remains limited in its scope and The same spirit of social justice is the heart of our Constitution effectiveness and far more attention must be paid to the which is contained in many of its provisions but is notion of corporate accountability and the way business encapsulated in the phrase of Article XIII, Section 1 – interests influence public policy. ”…equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.” There are important implications to this agenda:
The poor have expressed their concerns and aspirations in 1) there is the challenge of specific cases that call for the support of the business community simply because justice demands it or because they represent issues of transcendental consequences to the social reform agenda such as the future of agrarian reform. For example, the Hacienda Luisita case.
2) there is the challenge that call for the business community to give massively of their resources (funds, expertise and networks) to help in the implementation of government programs. If not, then excess profits should be taxed because massive expenditures are needed for real social change. Engaging in community development with 1/3 of 1% of our net income is tokenism. Channeling many papers, fora and consultations, but there are two by 270 companies of some P7 billion to the sources that the business community might find instructive, Philippine Business for Social Progress is tokenism namely (1) the National Rural Congress II of CBCP in 2007 if given over 40 years (P200m/year), when it takes and (2) the National Consultations in 2010 of the Climate over P40 billion a year to put some 5.5 million Change Congress of the Philippines with the DAR, DA, DENR families over the poverty threshold. I am sorry to and CCC in 2010. By next month, we will have an update on say that, with some exceptions, CSR in the these concerns from the soon to be launched Summit on Philippines has, by and large, been a palliative that Poverty, Inequality and Social Reform that adds the dimension has achieved very little by way of real change. of climate change poverty and an assessment of the first year 3) there is the challenge of accountability and of the Aquino administration. transparency in our agreements and operations involving public entitlements and natural resources, Secondly, we must listen to our hearts. Do we believe that such as in mining; what we are doing now, if any, for the poor really makes a difference in winning the war against poverty and inequality? 4) there is the challenge of using our social power and Do we even know that there are the four asset reform political capital to influence public policy towards programs for the poorest of the poor – agrarian reform, urban an agenda that puts the poor, as families according land reform and housing, ancestral domain, fisheries - that to Bhp. Bagaforo, at the center of our development, successive administrations from Cory Aquino up to today have even when it is against our own business interests, not and are not being fully funded or implemented? which is the most difficult condition of all;
Thirdly, if our hearts tell us we are not doing enough, let us (Turn to page 27) 26 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
The Challenge.....(from page 26) 5) And finally there is the challenge of a vision of a society finally rid of feudalism of which those in business and politics are the main beneficiaries and rebuilding from its ashes a nation of civic virtue that recognizes the moral limits of markets in the formulation of development policy.
This is more in keeping with the commitment in the 1971 Consensus Statement of BBC that : “Business has a responsibility in advancing the social development of the nation if social development is defined to mean that field of investment which combines (1) relatively low economic (read financial) returns with (2) high social returns.”
It is more in keeping with the commitment for both ecclesiastics and layman to speak out against injustice and to see to it, by practical and persevering action, and by the witness of their lives, that justice is done to every man – wherever and whenever it is found. As my good friend, the late Haydee Yorac used to say, let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Such is the case with Hacienda Luisita, about which the business community has chosen to remain silent. We can only surmise that investing its political capital in favor of the farmers might involve too much risk to displeasing a President who clearly sides with his family on the issue, despite his election promises. It is not the first time that business has given its interests precedence over a social reform. It happened as well in the campaign for the passage of CARPER in 2009.
But with all due respect to the bishops, it is harder for the farmers to understand why the CBCP has also chosen to remain silent on the case. The farmers have been waiting since September for a statement of support. The facts and arguments on the case are available for study. While the CBCP-Nassa has made up for that disappointment by its active leadership on the campaign of the farmers, the silence of the CBCP in the face of a highly questionable Supreme Court decision is deafening. And if the CBCP is going to make a statement, it should be now as we prepare a Motion for Reconsideration that will result in a final resolution of the case.3
There is another issue of social consequence awaiting further study by the business community and the bishops – the issue of mining. It is a complex issue and it is not the first time that the business community and CBCP are being asked to take a stand on it because no consensus was reached the last time and it is an issue of intergenerational and environmental justice. We urge that the issue be re-studied and a stand be taken as soon as possible because government decisions are forthcoming that have long-term irreversible consequences to our environment , biodiversity and development programs.4
Some details on Hacienda Luisita and on mining are foot-noted in the copy of this talk for your reference.
I leave you with two thoughts as you contemplate your responses to the challenges of today:
(1) From Him who made the supreme sacrifice that we may enjoy the bounty of his creation: “Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me; (2) The creed worth embracing which paraphrases a statement of Albert Camus when he received the Nobel Peace Prize – we must place ourselves at the service not of those who make history, but of those who suffer it.
Thank you and good day.
1 Social Choice by Kenneth Arrow and The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford 2 Caritas en Veritate 3 Briefly, I believe that the position of the farmers is this: (1) since the SC revoked and declared the Stock Distribution Option invalid, the plantation under the law must be subjected to compulsory acquisition. The so-called principle of “operative facts” does not apply. This is not an issue of equity; if at all an equity decision should be in favor of the farmers; (2) Compulsory acquisition should be exercised over the original area of about 6400 hectares and not just on 4,915 hectares; (3) There is no basis for a referendum because the option to exchange land for shares of stock no longer exists under CARPER. Moreover, a referendum before distribution is unimplementable. (4) There is no obstacle to the farmers deciding what they want to do with their land AFTER they have received their individual CLOAs, including a leaseback to HLI, a joint venture agreement, a service contract, and similar modalities that are still allowed under CARPER. But that decision is theirs to make when they are truly empowered by a title to their property. 4 The debate on mining boils down to three issues: (1) financial benefits vs environmental and social costs, (2) the institutional capability of the government to evaluate the economic costs of, and to regulate, mining projects, and (3) whether the country is getting a full and fair share of the value of the extracted non-renewable resources when alternative sources of raising development financing by conserving those resources for future generations are available or forthcoming, i.e. carbon trading, eco-tourism. Without accounting for environmental and social costs, without accounting for full costing in determining the fair share of government in the profits, our poor are effectively subsidizing the consumerism of developed countries.
27 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 PANEL DISCUSSIONS – PANEL OF REACTORS
CO-Creating Sustainable Bio-Regional Communities
MR DIOMEDES ARIENDA/MR. HERNANDO FUNES REPRESENTING THE FARMERS
Bago po namin simulan ang aming pag si- farming practices: share ay nais ko po kayong batiin ng isang mapayapang hapon. CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE(CYASF) The Asian Social Institue (ASI) in partnership with the different private “Kabataan, Kabahagi ka sa Pagpapanday sector, NGOs, government agencies, is ng Likas-Kayang Pag-unlad para sa pursuing the CSBCom Program, or Co- Kinabukasan” Creating Bio-Regional Sustainable Regional Communities . PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
VISION CYASF aims to develop ecological and community awareness of children and Nagtataguyod ng makabuluhang buhay, youth in the towns of Angono, Binangonan, pamumuhay, kabuhayan at likas kayang and Cardona to mobilize their creative pg-unlad na naka-ugat sa ating Kabat- energies for ecosystem-based, community- halaan, yaman n gating kultura at centered sustainable development. kalikasan. In general, CYASF aims to co-create sustainable bio-regional From CSB Com, we came up with another Program and we communities in the three municipalities with the participation call it CYASF or simply Children and Youth In Action for of the youth. It intends to support the different concerns of Sustainable Future. the youth through the following specific objectives and strategies: We also have Kabataan, kabahagi ka sa pagpapanday ng likas kayang pgunlad para sa kinabukasan. 1. Facilitate the formation of community oriented and environmentally sensitive youth leaders at the In relation to farming, there are so many issues and concerns bioregional level; regarding practice of Philippine farming. 2. Provide positive directions for scattered small ISSUES AND CONCERNS ON PHILIPPINE FARMING PRACTICES initiatives of the youth in responding to issues of development like flooding, garbage, stress, drugs, Farming is a major source of livelihood in rural households in etc.; the Philippines. Farming systems in the country are complex, multi-faceted, and geared to promote efficient production and 3. Create greater awareness about environmental a steady source of income. However, these have also wrought problems as it affects nature, communities, families, unwanted consequences on the environment, notably soil and individual health and well-being; and, erosion, water pollution, groundwater depletion, loss of natural habitats, and loss of biological diversity. Farming 4. Help the youth to analyze the poverty situation in systems are affected by exogenous environmental factors; in their locality and for them to appreciate and turn, the farming systems also affect agricultural production contribute to the sustainable development of their resource bases. Initiatives from various sectors to mitigate communities. the adverse environmental impacts of farming systems and to protect the agricultural production bases are in place in terms of policies, programs, and action projects. (Nicomedes D. Briones,University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines) COMPONENTS: On going actions as our response to the situation on Philippine (Turn to page 29) 28 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Co-Creating....(from page 28) 7. Managing Daily Living Waste and Body Waste 8. Water for Life 9. Community Trees for Life The main components of CYASF are as follows: 10. Evaluation and Graduation
1. Leadership Formation “Photo-Voice”, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, and 2. Support for Youth Actions Climate Change Awareness were also added as part of the 3. Holistic Environmental Education education component. 4. CYASF Center CYASF Center , on the other hand, serves as a resource center DESCRIPTION AND METHODOLOGIES and training center for CYASF activities. It is also in the center
Each component of CYASF uses various methodologies and presents different activities that could help in its administration. Different partner organizations also collaborate in the implementation of the different components thus reaching and serving more communities. Leadership formation gives different trainings on Servant Leadership, Project Planning and Management, Value Formation. It also involves youth leaders in different volunteer works, exposures, and network events. Support for Youth Actions basically is the action component of CYASF. It is divided into different sub-components such as Tree Nursery, Tree Planting/ Reforestation, Waste Segregation/ Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), Composting, River and Lake Rehabilitation and where technologies for river rehabilitation and diversified Diversified Integrated Farming System (DIFS). All of which are integrated farming are showcased. The center also holds a implemented in the three municipalities of Angono, model for community MRFs and Composting. Binangonan, and Cardona. SUSTAINABILITY Education Component CYASF is a social investment for the integration of a sub-bio- Holistic Environmental Education (HEE) region in Rizal Province and the development of young leaders who are expected to contribute to the co-creation of Handles environmental education at the community level. sustainable bioregional communities; thus, CYASF in itself is Pool of trainers are mobilized to give trainings in various a part of the “great work” towards sustainability. While the communities of the bio-region. Ten specially designed youth normally move on to adulthood and leave their youth modules are given to youth and children participants from involvement behind, the competence and formation that they the community, these are the following: have acquired will remain with them.
1. Acquaintanceship It is envisioned that the youth formed and trained in CYASF 2. Me and My Community will be adult leaders of CSBCom. Enshrined in their hearts 3. Creation Spirituality will be the meaning-system of life and life-style rooted in 4. Experiences of Caring and Loving Nature spirituality, and the richness of the life values of their culture 5. My Body, My Home and nature’s bounty. 6. Good Food, Bad Food
29 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 PANEL DISCUSSIONS – PANEL OF REACTORS MR. RAFFY OLIVERA Representing Fisherfolks
Magandang hapon po. pero pg yun po ay naparami natin at native yan, ay bababa ang presyo nun. Kami po ang unang anak ng ASI, Asian At saka po yung red tilapia. Social Institute, pero empowered na kami. Hindi po naming akalain na Ang ulang po ay naka confine yan sa magiging kabalikat kami ng goberyno sa net, 3x6, may takip, may bahay na pamamagitan ng Social Reform Agenda. branches at twigs ng sampalok Sapagka’t nung Martial Law , kami yung (tamarind), at sa ibabaw nyan ay 300 mga mangingisda ng ng ra-rally mula sa pieces na red tilapia. Ang benta po Laguna Lake. naming sa red tilapia ay P180 per kilo.
At kung titingnan nyo po ang aming Grow out ng ornamental fish. Ang partnership sa DA-BFAR at sa pinaka loyal ng isda na ornamental ay cooperative naming, yung CSB Com, isa ang angel fish. Hindi po humihiwalay itong proceso na dumaan na parang ang partner nyan hangga’t hindi patay galing sa Bibliya. Pag titingnan nyo ang yung asawa. Meron po kami nyan. Ang data, kami yung pinaka-nagugutom na kagandahan po sa lake, hindi po sya sector, tama po yun. Pero yung pag-asa pinakakain sapagka’t ang lake ay may namin, hindi nawawala. natural feeding at natural foods.
Pakikita ko po sa inyo ngayon ay yung Partnership, at yung Yung farming ng seaweed, sea urchin , napaka-mahal po nito. pakikibaka, matagl pong proceso yun. Ito’y export natin ngayon sapagka’t ang mga mangingisda po ay nag shift na ngayon sa sustainable aquaculture. At Yung Partnership namin sa government at dito sa cooperative, sapagka’t ang 15 kilometers natin ngayon ay nasa pagkasira ang titulo po nito ay Sustainable Fisheries Development. May na. mga ini-implementa na pong appropriate techno-demo project katulad ng eco-friendly livelihood sa Aquaculture. Kaya’t ng shift ang mangingisda ngayon sa partnership sa BFAR na tinatawag nating Sustainable Aquaculture para Sa aquaculture, hindi po natin puputulin yung mangrove, masagot natin yung Food Security. huhukaying lang natin yung paligid, tapos fully cultured, mudcrab at gropier. Yung matitira na kakainin ng gropier, Ito naman po ang advocacies , issues and concerns ng kakainin ng mud crab. May value po yun. Wala tayong fisherfolks. Sa kaalaman po ng marami, ang Fisheries Code of pinuputol na mangrove. 1998 ang ng draft po nyan ay mga fisherfolks at mga NGO.
Ikalawa, yung mariculture. Ito po yung sari-saring farming ng isda sa isang lugar katulad ng seaweeds, marine cages. 20% po ng mariculture , sa batas, ay dapat yan ay sa fisherfolks. So unti- unti po tayong nag –i-implementa ng mga sea farming ngayon, pati yung sea urchin farming, sea cucumber, meron na po tayong mangingisda na nakikinabang na rin nyan.
Ang kulang lang po dyan ay ang suportang pang pinansiyal.
Inimbitahan ko po kayo sa Laguna Lake sapagka’t kami ay may model farm na ini-implement. Yun pong ulang, may value yan. Yan po yung endemic na species natin na fresh water prawn. Napakamahal po nyan, (Turn to page 31) 30 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Co-Creating....(from page 30) 100 million mangrove planted for a period of three years in Yan po ang ng amend ng RP-Japan Treaty. partnership with BFAR, LGU, private sector and other concerned agencies. Ngayon po ang pagtatanim naming ng Para pangalagaan natin ang karagatan natin ay napakahirap. mangrove ay mahigit ng isang milyon. At yan po ay ginagawa naming tuwing May. Sapagka’t ang directive ng BFAR, sa Ang legislative agenda po namin ay nasa Senate na, tapos month of May 1-31 ay Fisherfolks month. Ang nagpaptakbo na po kami sa House of Representatives. ng BFAR sa buwan ng May ay fisherfolks. Ang directive ng goberyno ay ang policy making pero ang implementation ng Kami din po ay may programa at kampanya sa adaptation at program ay fisherfolk lahat tuwing May taon taon. mitigation measures para sa Climate Change. Sapagka’t ang unang ma- aapektuhan ay kami na mangingisda. At ako po’y Director ng BFAR National 2007.
Yung self –empowerment of women and fisheries Yan pong 100 million na mangrove ay ang isasagot namin sa development. Yung pong NAPC , sa Fisheries Code, ay Climate Change. At kaakibat po ng programang yan ay mandatory na ang women ay nasa Council. Ang isa pang establishment of community mangrove nursery Yan po ay feature ng council, walang program at polisiya na magaganap may budget na . sa isang munisipyo na may palaisdaan na hindi dadaan sa Konsehong ito. At ang panghuli, bilang kami mangingisda, pinaka mataas yung poverty level , kami naman ay hindi nalulungkot. Sapagka’t Ang membership po ng Fisheries and Aquatic Resources kung kami man ay mawala sa mundo, kami ang sumasagap Management Council ay 75% ay fisherolk, so may lahat ng problema na ginawa ng tao sa kalawakan, pero sa empowerment po dun. bandang huli po, sa itaas, kami ay mapalad. Sapagka’t ang may hawak ng pintuan ng langit ay si San Pedro, apat ang Settlement for Fisherfolks, RA 8550. Yan po ay na kay apostoles namin. Kaya kami po ay mapalad sa taas. Presidente Aquino na. Pipirmahan na po nya yung Executive Order na mg create ng Task Force na mg i-implement ng Marami pong salamat. sinasabi sa RA 8550, na ang fisherfolks ay dapat merong settlement na safe within 1 kilometer radius. Hindi mo aalisin ang fisherfolks sa lugar ng palaisdaan. At yan po ay sa pagtutulungan ng LGU, HUDC, BFAR, DENR at lahat na agency na concerned.
31 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 PANEL DISCUSSIONS – PANEL OF REACTORS
MR. JOSE MORALES President Ugnayang Lakas ng mga Apektadong Pamilya sa Baybaying Ilog Pasig at mga Tributaryo (ULAP)
REPRESENTING THE URBAN POOR
Magandang umaga po sa kapita-pitagang mga miembro ng din uli ang mga relocatees sa siyudad para mabuhay Bishop Businessmen’s Conference. 2) Nagkakahiwa-hiwalay ang mga mag-aasawa dahil Ang sektor po ng Maralitang Taga-Lunsod, tulad ng mga hindi basta nakakauwiang asawang lalaki dahil sa nagdaang panahon, ay kasalukuyang humaharap ulet sa mga paghahanap-buhay sa siyudad banta ng demolisyon. Humigit-kumulang po sa 560,000 na pamilya sa buong Metro Manila ang nabibilang sa mga may 3) Nagiging isyu ang kapayapaan sa relokasyon: banta ng pag-gigiba at palaging kinakabahan. Mula noon, Umuusbong ang mga “gang war”. Nagiging hanggang ngayon, di pa po nagbabago ang aming kalagayan magkaaway ang bagong dating na mga relocatees at karanasan. at ang mga dinadatnang komunidad dahil nakukuha ang mga pananim gawa na rin ng kagutuman dahil Ang paglilipat sa malalayong lugar ang tanging plano para sa sa kawalang hanap-buhay. Dahil sa gutom, mga pamilyang nabanggit. Kung hindi naman sumasang-ayon naitutulak ng kahirapan na magbenta ang iilan ng ang mga naninirahan sa malalayo, wala namang agad na kanilang kidney. naitutugon ang mga lokal na pamahalaan kung hindi sang- ayunan ang opsyon na pinapapili lamang ang mga apektadong Mayroon naman pong ginagawa ang national government, pamilya ng isa sa mga ito: gaya ng DILG, DSWD at DBM para matulungan kaming mga Maralita na matupad ang kasunduan namin at si Pangulong a) Financial Assistance na: Php 24,000 na Noynoy Aquino tungkol sa mga problema ng paninirahan sa pinakamataas na halaga o Php5,000 sa siyudad. Mayroon pong binuong Technical Working Group pinakamababang asistance (TWG) na nakalugar sa DILG para mag-ugnay-ugnay ng mga ahensiyang kinauukulan sa panirahanan para marating namin b) Off-site relocation: mga relokasyun na hindi handa ang inaasam-asam naming solusyon. sa lahat ng bagay mula sa mga pangangailangan ng batayang serbisyu. Malayong relokasyon na walang Maganda din po sana na matulungan ninyo kami at pagkakakitaan – halimbawa nito ay Laguna at makatulong ang pagkakataong ito na maipaabot sa kamalayan Bulacan ng lahat na mas makakabuti na magkaroon ng pangkalahatang programang pabahay ang lahat sa siyudad. Maganda ring Noong ika-6 po lamang ng Hunyo nitong taon na ito, isang makita na hindi magiging madali at lalong hindi nagiging marahas na demolisyon po ang ginawa ng pamahalaang lokal matipid sa pamahalaan na maglagay ng pabahay sa ng Pasig sa mga naninirahan sa Morales Pader, barangay Sta. malalayong lugar. Lucia, Pasig City. Ang mapayapang pag-iipon ng mga taga Morales Pader ay upang pigilan ang anumang marahas at Dahil hindi lamang po bahay ang kailangan tugunan ng mapaniil na aksyun ng pamahalaan ngunit ang mapayapang proyekto pag sa malayo ang paglilipatan ng mga tao. Kailangan pag-iipon na ito ay binuwag at dinurog ng lokal na gobierno pang magtayo ng eskwelahan, palengke, hospital, simabahan, ng Pasig City. Wala pa pong makatao at makatarungang transportation road at iba na mas mahal. Samantalang, dito solusyong naaayon sa batas na pinapatupad ang Pasig City sa siyudad ay nandito na lahat ang pangangailangan ng local government hanggang ngayon. mamamayan.
Marami na po ang naging resulta ng mga pananaliksik ng mga Sa siyudad na po ipinanganak ang karamihan sa amin at dito researchers at scholars na hindi nagiging pangmatagalang na kami naghahanap-buhay. May gampaning papel kami sa solusyon ang malayong relokasyon sa kadahilanang: pangkabuhayang aspeto ng siyudad - mga taxi drivers, basurero, manininda, mga teacher, security guard, katulong 1) Dahil walang hanap-buhay sa relokasyon, bumabalik at iba pa. (Turn to page 33 ) 32 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011
Co-creating....(from page 32) 4) Matulungan kami ng BBC na makahanap ng mga Isama po ninyo sa inyong Corporate Social Responsibility lugar para sa panlipunang pabahay sa siyudad at agenda ang mga sumusunod naming kahilingan: kung may mga lugar sa mga Lupang Pari na maaari maibahagi sa maralita at kailangang paunlarin ay 1) Matulungan kaming mga Maralita na pagaanin ang magandang suportahan ng BBC; upang ang mithiin proseso ng pag-redeem ng mga naka-mortgage na na matugunan ng permanente ang problemang private property sa Metro Manila; pabahay sa maralita ay mangyari.
2) Maging kongkreto po ang pagtugon ng mga Umaasa po ang sektor namin na isasama niyo ang aming mga negosyante sa sinasabi ng batas kaugnay ng kanilang adhikain sa inyong dalisay na intention na makatulong na Corporate Social Responsibility sa pamamagitan ng magkaroon ng mga maka-maralitang pagtugon sa kahirapan pagtupad sa 20% balance housing for the poor upang ang mga kapita-pitagang institusyon sa lipunan natin, gaya mapaglaanan ng lugar para sa In-City Socialized ng Bishop-Businessmen’s Conference. Housing ang mga Maralita. Ito ang nasasaad sa RA 7279 (Urban Development and Housing Act. Mabuhay po ang Bishop-Businessmen’s Conference! Mabuhay ang Maralitang Taga-Lunsod. 3) Matulungan kami sa paghikayat na maging bahagi ng mga proyekto at programa ng mga negosyante, pamahalaan at real estate developers ang Land Sharing scheme bilang isang in-city social housing solution sa katiyakan ng paninirahan.
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF ELECTION RESULTS
THE FOLLOWING WERE ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 2011-2012
BISHOPS BUSINESSMEN
Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma Meneleo J. Carlos , Jr. Bishop Deogracias S. Iniguez, Jr. Jose S. Concepcion, Jr. Bishop Jose Colin M. Bagaforo Mario Antonio G. Lopez Bishop Arturo M. Bastes Paterno D. Menzon Bishop Antonieto D. Cabajog Christian S. Monsod Bishop John F. Du Vitalian N. Nanagas II Bishop Reynaldo G. Evangelista Isabelita S. Palanca Bishop Broderick S. Pabillo Fr. Emmanuel Sarez Bishop Crispin B. Varquez Mediatrix V. Villanueva
Msgr. Jaime Villanueva, Archdiocesan Administrator of Palo and Architect Luis Ferrer, President of LM Ferrer supervised the canvassing of votes, assisted by the BBC and NAMFREL Secretariat.
33 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 FACILITATOR’S SUMMARY OF EXPRESSED VIEWS POINTS OF CONVERGENCE / DIVERGENCE DR. ANTONIO LAVINA Dean, Ateneo School of Government
A. Areas of Concern • Issues on Hacienda Luisita • Importance of families and 1. Climate Change happiness and social • Environmental Protection renewal as part of the matrix of development and 2. Sustainable Development governance • Issues on Mining • Solution to poverty is not B. Proposed Plan of Action environment and economic gross per se; but inclusive growth and 1) Challenge to bishops and businessmen to growth that is consistent with speak up speak out against injustice ; social sustainable development issues, i.e Hacienda Luisita.
3. Promotion of Entrepreneurship in 2) Respond to the request of sectoral groups responding to challenges of for BBC to join in the advocacy of the urban poverty poor; farmers; fisher folks.
4. Challenge of accountability, transparency and good 3) Conduct of BBC Breakfast forum to include issues and governance concerns affecting the farmers, fisher folks; urban poor
5. Challenge of using our social power and political capital 4) Adopt action program which are practical so to influence public policy towards an agenda that puts corporations can determine which are doable. the poor, as families, at the center of our development 5) Pursue Corporate Social Responsibility as a response to 6. Social justice issues that need to be resolved: poverty.
34 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 CLOSING REMARKS/ CLOSING PRAYER HIS EXCELLENCY MOST REV. ANGEL N. LAGDAMEO, D.D. BBC National Co-Chairman/Archbishop of Jaro
We have discovered this afternoon, Corporate Social Responsibility. Ito ang ating that we still have much to do after 40 sagot sa kahirapan at sa challenge ng years. makataong-pag-unlad. Dalhin natin sa Panalangin an gating mga ginawa ngayong I have a copy of the Statement that was hapon. made in 1971 and the subject matter is the same subject matter that we are talking about today, “Corporate Social CLOSING PRAYER Responsibility, 1971”. Lord God, we thank you for accompanying So it only goes to show that after us in our deliberation on Corporate Social looking at the 40 years that have Responsibility. passed, we still have not done much. May this occasion bear fruit in the Just as has been declared to us by Dr. management of business according to justice Mangahas, “poverty and hunger are and charity that we may continue to still with us”. contribute to the alleviation of the poverty of our brothers and sisters and improve their quality of life. The world of the few, the world of the many, when will they be one? Nagpapasalamat tayo na napakinggan natin ang ating We pray to you, in the name of Jesus, the Lord. mga kapatid na mga magsasaka, mangingisda at mga urban poor. At least, sa kanilang bahagi, mayroon silang nagagawa In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy at mayroong nangyayari sa ating mundo dahil sa kanila. Spirit, Amen.
Kaya, ipagpatuloy natin hanggang 40 years from now, yung
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We would like to thank in a special way:
• Pilipinas SHELL Petroleum Corporation • PLDT/SMART Foundation • JOLLIBEE Foods Corporation
For their support to the 35th BBC General Assembly and Annual Meeting.
God bless you for your generosity!
36 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
BISHOPS 1. Bp. Isabelo C. Abarquez - Bishop of Calbayog 2. Bp. Gerardo A. Alminaza - Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro 3. Bp. Benjamin J. Almoneda - Bishop Emeritus of Daet 4. Bp. Patricio H. Alo - Bishop of Mati 5. Abp. Ramon C. Arguelles - Archbishop of Lipa 6. Bp. Jose Colin M. Bagaforo - Auxiliary Bishop of Cotabato 7. Bp. Sofronio A. Bancud - Bishop of Cabanatuan 8. Bp. Joel Z. Baylon - Bishop of Legazpi 9. Bp. Antonieto D. Cabajog - Bishop of Surigao 10. Bp. Jose A. Cabantan - Bishop of Malaybalay 11. Bp. Francisco M. De Leon - Auxiliary Bishop of Antiplo 12. Bp Reynaldo G. Evangelista - Bishop of Boac 13. Bp. Elenito R. Galido - Bishop of Iligan 14. Bp. Camilo D. Gregorio - Bishop Prelate of Batanes 15. Bp. Angel T. Hobayan - Bishop Emeritus of Catarman 16. Bp. Deogracias S. Iniguez, Jr. - Bishop of Kalookan 17. Bp. Edgardo S. Juanich - Bishop Apostolic of Taytay 18. Abp. Angel N. Lagdameo - Archbishop of Jaro 19. Abp. Antonio J. Ledesma - Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro 20. Bp. Roberto C. Mallari - Auxiliary Bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga 21. Bp. Vicente M. Navarra - Bishop of Bacolod 22. Bp. Nereo P. Odchimar - Bishop of Tandag 23. Bp. Honesto F. Ongtioco - Bishop of Cubao 24. Bp. Broderick S. Pabillo - Auxiliary Bishop of Manila 25. Bp. Jose C. Sorra - Bishop Emeritus of Legazpi 26. Bp. Luis Antonio G. Tagle - Bishop of Imus 27. Bp. Antonio R. Tobias - Bishop of Novaliches 28. Bp. Julius S. Tonel - Bishop of Ipil 29. Bp. Emmanuel C. Trance - Bishop of Catarman 30. Abp. Sergio L. Utleg - Bishop -elect of Tuguegarao 31. Bp. Crispin B. Varquez - Bishop of Borongan 32. Msgr. Jaime C. Villanueva - Administrator of Palo
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
BUSINESSMEN
1. Roberto W. Ansaldo - Managing Director, BREW Brothers 2. Isidro Antonio C. Asper - Member of the Board, TESDA 3. Feline A. Bravo - President, Aldecoa Realty Corporation 4. Meneleo J. Carlos, Jr. - President RESINS, Inc. 5. Jose S. Concepcion, Jr. - Presdient, RFM Foundation, Inc. 6. Amb. Howard Q. Dee - President, Assisi Development Foundation 7. Alejandro T. Escano - President MERALCO Foundation 8. Marivi Espano - Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Punongbayan & Araullo 9. Luis M. Ferrer - President, LM Roccio Ferrer 10. Linda B. Guerrero - Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Social Weather Stations 11. Francisco E. Josef - President, JC Consultants 12. Mario Antonio G. Lopez - Professor Asian Institute of Management 13. Fr. Francis B. Lucas - President, CMN 14. Dr. Mahar K. Mangahas - President, Social Weather Stations 15. Jacinto M. Mantaring - President, VEMAVAL Corporation 16. Atty. Paterno D. Menzon - Attorney -at-Law 17. Christian S. Monsod - Consultant, MERALCO 18. Sabsy Palanca - Convenor, BBC Committee on Spirituality in the Workplace 19. Fr. Paulo Prigol - Port Chaplain & Director, Apostleship of the Sea 20. Gerardo A. Sandoval - Director, SPADA Group, Social Weather Stations 21. Fr. Emmanuel Sarez - Parish Priest, Sta. Maria de la Strada Parish 22. Vinchu Lapid - Vice-President, VEMAVAL Corporation 23. Ma. Lourdes V. Villanueva - Executive Director for Operations, Shelmed Cottage Teasures 24. Mediatrix V. Villanueva - Executive Vice-President Shelmed Cottage Treasures
BBC CHAPTER/DIOCESAN SOCIAL ACTION CENTER REPRESENTATIVES
1. Fr. Aniceto Buenafe - Director, Social Action Center/ Convenor, BBC Bacolod 2. Fr . Filomeno Duaban - Chair, Good Governance Desk, Social Action Center 3. Leonito Lopue - Chairman, Bacolod Bishop Priests Businessmen’s Conference 4. Fr. Julius Heruela - Convenor, BBC Dumaguete 5. Dr. Profetiza Lim - Convenor, BBC Dumaguete 6. Engr. Wilfredo Magallano - Convenor, BBC Dumaguete 7. Sr. Eden Orlino, SPC - Director, Social Action Center, Diocese of Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya 8. Thomas Ford - Co-Chairman, BBC Jaro 9. Carlos Cabochan - Representing BBC Kalookan Chairman Mr. Danilo Sanchez 10. Amb. Jose Macario Laurel IV - Co-Chairman, BBC Metropolitan Lipa
38 35th BBC GAAM Proceedings 11 July 2011 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
1. Fr. Gerard Mascarinas - Archdiocesan Financial Administrators of the Philippines Institute 2. Dr. Mina Ramirez - President, Asian Social Institute 3. Benjamin Abadiano - President, Assisi Development Foundation 4. Dr. Antonio Lavina - Dean Ateneo School of Governance 5. Mary John Mananzan - Co-Chairperson, Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (Women) 6. Fr. Quirico Pedregosa - Co-Chairperson, Association of major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (Men) 7. Perla F. Toledo - Senior Vice-President, Banco de Oro (representative of Teresita Sy) 8. Shirly Sangalang - Senior Vice-President, Banco de Oro 9. Mary Ann Cruz - Head CEAP Plans & Programs, Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines 10. Fr. Nonong Fajardo, CM - Head, Poverty Allevaition Program, Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines 11. Hernando Funes - Farmers Sector, Co-Creating Sustainable Bio-Regional Communities 12. Diomedes Arienda - Farmers Sector, Co-Creating Sustainable Bio-RegionalCommunities 13. Rafael Olivera - Fisherfolks Sector, Co-Creating Sustainable Bio-Regional Communities 14. Dr. Patrick Christian B. Ong - National Coordinator, Professionals for Christ, Inc., De La Salle University 15. Renato Ermita - Vice-President for Marketing, Federation of Philippine Industries 16. Edwin Umali - Executive Vice-President, Federation of Philippine Industries 17. Ma. Cecilia M. Genzola - Executive Director, Foundation for the Development of the Urban Poor 18. Leah Tolentino - Director, GINHAWA 19. Minifred Gavino - GINHAWA 20. Yvette San Luis - GINHAWA 21. Jun Redor - GINHAWA 22. Peter Perfecto - Executive Director - Makati Business Club 23. Archt. Felino A. Palafox - President, Management Association of the Philippines 24. Elisabeth Strohscheidt - MISEREOR 25. Luz Malibiran - Community Organizer, Multi-Diversity 26. Menchu Sarmiento - Executive Director, PAL Foundation 27. Nancy Leonen -Bailet - Partnership for Transparency Fund 28. Joel Espineli - PHILKAIROS Incorporated 29. Ana Karmela S. Miranda - PHILKAIROS, Incorproated 30. Edgar O. Chua - Chairman, Pilipinas Petroleum Shell Corporation 31. Pamela Castro - Program Manager, Pilipinas Shell Foundation 32. Bernie Bagaman - Resins, Inc 33. Edgardo J. Tria Tirona - President, Sangguniang LAIKO ng Pilipinas 34. Esther O. Santos - President, PLDT/SMART Foundation 35. Jose Morales - Urban Poor Sector, Apektadong Pamilya sa Baybaying Ilog Pasig at mga Tributaryo 36. Julio Flauta - Program Coordinator, Visayan Forum 37. Marianne Garcia 38. Syreen Anne Borcelis
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