Youth in Governance

Active Participant vs. Passive Observer

Atty. Ernesto B. Neri

@tontonneri
What is your ideal Barangay?
• As a Kapitan • As a Sari-sari store
• As a Tanod owner
• As a religious leader • As a student
• As a Day Care Teacher • As a Trisikad Driver
• As a community Doctor • As a parent
• As an active Social Media
User
Governance is a Relationship
LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNANCE
LEADS TO CORRUPTION AND PERPETUATE
PROVERTY
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HONEY MOON PERIOD

EMOTIONAL INTENSITY
GETTING SERIOUS
PERSONAL SPACE
ISSUES

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 ELECTION!

HONEY MOON PERIOD

EMOTIONAL INTENSITY
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
BACK TO OUR PRIVATE
LIVES

GROUND ORGANIZING

DISENGAGEMENT

EARLY CAMPAIGN
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 How do you improve your
Relationship with your love?
 ELECTION!

HONEY MOON PERIOD

EMOTIONAL INTENSITY
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
ENGAGED CITIZENSHIP

GROUND ORGANIZING

EARLY CAMPAIGN

TIME
Engaged Citizenship is Key
 Relationship prosper AND makes us happy
when we
Are transparent, accountable and engaged
With one another.
 1.

Governance impacts our Quality of

Life
 Where would you prosper more?
A. B.

Health care worker visits only once a Access to hospital. Decent housing.
week. No access to clean drinking water. A Advance police force and presence of
lot of Crime gangs. university.
One teacher serves 10 classes.
Don’t let your bae be the
sole decision maker.
 2.

Governance is a decision making

process on how to allocate limited
resources
Tell your bae that you decide
TOGETHER.
 3.

Governance requires us to
organize to influence the
decision-making process
 We improve if we are
accountable with each other.
 Policy Makers
Long Route
Accountability Short Route
Accountability
1. Election 1. Score Carding
2. Policy 2. Reporting
Advocacy Corruption
3. Budget 3. Training of
Participation staff
4. People’s
Agenda
Building

Citizens Services
Short Route
Accountability
Story of Maningning Creek
• Barangay Kagawad formed a youth
coalition
• Invested in the creating Bokashi Balls
• Enacted an environmental code in the
barangay
• self-sustaining
• Partnership with private sector
Oro Youth Code and Scholarship Code
• 3 years in the making of lobbying and
advocating
• Institutionalizes the Oro Youth
Development Office
• Creation of Sectoral Chairmanship and
representation in various committees
• Expanded the scholarship tracks which
includes income-based
• Collaborated youth organizations
Search for Most Child-Friendly Police
Station
• First in the nation which is youth-made
and led
• Visible and observable improvement of
infrastructure and services
• Created partnerships with private
sector
• Expanded to search for Barangays and
other institutions
 1.
Register and Vote!
 1I.

BE INFORMED , DO NOT SPREAD

FAKE NEWS OR CLEAR
PROPAGANDA!
 1II.
FIND your Cause and ORGANIZE!
 DO NOT AIM AT SUCCESS
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;

it must ensue,
and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's
personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-
product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.