Kayayanbayan Feedback Wall University Roadshow Country Partnership Framework Consultation
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#KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall University Roadshow Country Partnership Framework Consultation As part of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) consultations, the World Bank Group (WBG) conducted a university roadshow called #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall to gather views from a broad spectrum of college‐aged students on what they think should be priorities for the country in the next five years. This series of activities led to engagements with five Universities, physical attendance of 460 students in introductory forums, and written comments from 1,134 young citizens (and counting). The #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall is a means of obtaining the views of the youth through a booth set‐ up where they can write their comment on a designed and branded postcard pertaining to a development theme identified in the SCD as a priority constraint. The initiative was patterned closely to the creative idea of the EXT Thailand team. Spearheaded by the External and Corporate Relations (ECR), the Philippines version was conducted through partnerships student groups in five Universities. With institutional acknowledgement of each college, the students host a forum on one of WBG’s reports as the opening activity. At each forum, after the WB presents an existing report and then the CPF consultation is explained, there is a segment to formally launch the booth. During this segment students hear about the mechanics of the activity, an explanation of the themes for each postcard, a handful of students write their thoughts on the postcard and explains it to the audience, and they each post to the feedback wall and take a photo. The five themed‐postcards are for HUMAN CAPITAL, PROGRESS, INEQUALITY, RESILIENCE AND PEACE. In each postcard, questions were raised as follows: How can the Philippines achieve PROGRESS?; How can the Philippines achieve and sustain PEACE?; How can the Philippine reduce INEQUALITY?; How can the Philippines improve HUMAN CAPITAL?; and How can the Philippines be more RESILIENT?. A wide range of feedback and recommendation were raised to address these developmental issues. Students were encouraged to pick one among the five which they consider the top priority, and write their views, opinions, comments, and recommendations for the issue. The participants are encouraged to stick their postcards on the feedback wall and post them in social media using the official hashtag: #KayaYanBayan. The feedback wall stayed in each university from three to five days in which partner student organizations utilized customized strategies to gather feedback. At the end of each roadshow, the feedback wall, together with the postcards, were collected. There were also social media monitoring. Academic partners The campuses visited were the University of Makati (UMak), Far Eastern University (FEU), University of the Philippines – Los Baños (UPLB), Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), and Palawan State University (PSU). Three among the five universities are not yet part of the Knowledge for Development Community (KDC). See Annex 1 for details. UMak is run by the City Government and is known for providing free college education to students from poor backgrounds, there were a number of former 4Ps beneficiaries in the audience. FEU is a large middle‐tier private University, and AdMU is among the elite private Universities where students are in high‐income level. The #KayaYanBayan feedback wall kicked‐off in UMak with the presentation of Poverty Assessment on August 7, 2019 and ended in AdMU with the presentation of East Asia Pacific Economic Update on August 23, 2019. Total 460 students attended the events. Each student group created their own publicity materials, including a video, posters, and social media promotion. Moving forward, UMak and FEU are keen on entering a more formal and longer‐term knowledge‐sharing partnership with the Bank perhaps through the KDC network. #KayaYanBayan Postcards Results Total of one thousand one hundred thirty‐four (1,134) postcards were filled out by students from the five participating universities. Among the five universities that the #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall visited, UMak had the highest number of postcard because the partner student organization was holding a department week celebration at the same time. The figure below contains a tally of postcards received from each University. One can consider the postcard theme selection as a form of survey since they were asked to pick the one they think is the priority. In this respect, PROGRESS has the most selections (292), followed closely by PEACE (271). In general, the distribution is rather even, with none of the themes standing out as having no resonance with the audience. The team read all the postcard entries and grouped specific comments into subthemes within each of the five themes. Sub‐themes emerged from each postcard that are categorized as “Call for Character Building”, “Recommendation” and “Call to Action”. Specific recommendations of students for each postcard. Students across four participating universities placed PROGRESS as its the number one priority the Philippines should focus on the next five years. Within this theme the specific concerns that top the list are: the need to improve the educational system and quality of education in the country; develop the agricultural sector; and create more local SMEs and support existing ones. A significant portion of students in the Mero Manila schools flagged the need to improve the public transportation. The table below lists some of the recommendations on how the Philippines can achieve PROGRESS. PROGRESS improve educational system and quality of education improve public transportation system develop agricultural sector create more local SMEs and support existing ones attract foreign investors by ease‐in‐doing business better allocation of resources build infrastructure and educational opportunities in rural areas check environmental‐friendly policies in infrastructure create more job opportunities give incentives to transparent companies give more funds for agricultural workers handle credit cycle efficiently help minority group include financial literacy in school increase minimum wage invest in sustainable technology maximize natural resource nurture infant industries promote competition promote ease of doing business promote environmental‐friendly produce without cutting off wages PEACE is the second most‐selected postcard. Students emphasize these specific recommendations: improve and implement government peace policies; agrarian reform; and more engagement in peace dialogues both locally and internationally. The table below lists some of the students’ thoughts about specific areas that need attention relating to achieving and maintaining PEACE. PEACE improve and implement government peace policies agrarian reform provide proper education for children in war zones development in agricultural sector more engagement in peace dialogues locally and internationally enhance military force include history of Mindanao in curriculum and ROTC in school social and cultural assimilation training for law enforcers provide equal access to basic needs Almost equal to PEACE, many students also chose INEQUALITY as a priority theme. They recognize that INEQUALITY is prevalent in the society and attention needs to be paid to marginalized and disadvantaged sectors, providing good jobs, improving education, and expanding social welfare among others. The table shows recommendations in reducing INEQUALITY in these sectors. INEQUALITY more opportunities to disadvantaged and marginalized sector lower tax for the poor abolish provincial minimum wage create competitive jobs create more benefits for workers establish stricter policies on employers make opportunities more accessible raise farmer's wage and teacher's salary and re‐evaluate minimum wage improve quality of education free education provide skill trainings increase subsidies for public school make secondary education more accessible remove privation of schools cultural and intellectual exchange and activities promote family planning and maternal care universal health care in rural areas create more cash transfer programs decentralize government and businesses establish more laws and policies addressing inequality increase inheritance tax increase standard of living in other areas migration and mobility of people promote local products regulation and monitoring in financial markets taxation For HUMAN CAPITAL, there are specific comments relating to health, education, employment, and social protection. HUMAN CAPITAL create better health services by building more public hospitals, providing free annual check‐ups and mental health consultation focus on research and development free education and more subsidies for public school improve quality of basic education provide more skill trainings promote outcome‐based education double CCT and UCT for short‐term and long‐term welfare needs create equal job opportunities create high paying jobs create jobs for the poor increase minimum wage and teacher's salary reduce required labor hours for blue collar workers retention policy and welfare for workers standardize incentives create more laws and policies supporting human capital make basic needs more accessible For RESILIENCE, the following are some of the recommendations: include disaster risk reduction in academic curriculum; modernization of technology; create more laws relating to disaster risk reduction; environmental conservation and rehabilitation; and build earthquake‐, landslide‐,