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Politics and governance · report
State of Local Democracy in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 249
- ISBN
- 9789718567852
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
An assessment of how democracy works, and does not, in the ARMM’s provinces and towns, by the University of the Philippines’ public administration college with International IDEA and the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.
This 260-page report is a citizen-led assessment of how democracy works in the ARMM. It uses the State of Local Democracy framework of International IDEA. The UP National College of Public Administration and Governance and the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) led the work, with Australian aid. It was the 5th in a series of Philippine democracy assessments and the first to look at local democracy. Edna E. A. Co led a team that included Amina Rasul, Mehol Sadain, Rufa Guiam and Benedicto Bacani.
The findings rest on focus group discussions, round tables, surveys, interviews, document review and validation workshops. After a long chapter setting the region in context, the report assesses representative democracy and then participatory democracy. It ends with a summary and recommendations drawn from participants.
Participants valued their freedoms, including freedom of faith in a mostly Christian country, but saw democracy in the ARMM as even more flawed than in the rest of the Philippines. The report points to deep poverty and to leaders who used autonomy to keep their hold on power and wealth instead of serving their people.
From pcid.com.ph, pcid.com.ph.
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