News & Events

The Community-based Dialogues (CBD) Project held its first Regional Institutionalization-Localization Workshop for this year covering Regions X (Northern Mindanao) & XIII (Caraga) on 22-23 March 2017 in Cagayan de Oro City.

Two German college students of the Kehl University, namely, Katharina Wrobel and Lea Siedler, visited the Philippine Office of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) on March 21, 2017 in Makati City. They are in the country for a 3-month internship program on Public Administration/ Management Program with the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP). They were joined in the visit by Mr. Enrico Caja, DAP’s Partnerships Manager.

“Dialogue sessions like these provide our stakeholders the opportunity to articulate their concerns and call attention to how the national and local government agencies concerned may be able to positively respond to our needs,” said NCMF Bureau of Peace and Conflict Resolution Attorney Sittie Amirah Pendatun during the one-day dialogue/forum with almost 100 Muslim community leaders, national and local government officials from Central and Southern Mindanao held on March 20, 2017 in Cotabato City.

“We should all work towards the standardization of our police training programs as these address transnational crime concerns especially with the integrated policing demands brought about by the ASEAN Economic Community,” said Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC) President Dr. Ricardo De Leon during the two-day “Second Regional Police Training Conference on Transnational Crime” attended by police training and line officials from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam held from March 26-29 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder of the Political Science Department of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn in Germany discussed “Who Runs the State in a Federation? Citizenship Regulations on the National and the Sub-National Levels” in a workshop held in Makati City on 10 March 2017.

"Power Sharing and Resource Sharing in Federalism -- A Comparative Analysis amongst Varied Approaches in Different Countries," was the topic of the roundtable discussion held at the University of the Philippines College of Law last 09 March 2017.

In connection with the expressed intention of the present administration to spearhead the shift to a federal system of government, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) held a forum for its key officers and core staff on “Federalism and Conflict Regulation: Typical Conflicts and Potential Arrangements for Regulation, Including Conflicts Over the Supremacy of National Over Sub-National Law” in Quezon City on 09 March 2017. A main discussant for the activity, which was jointly organised by the Pimentel Institute for Leadership and Governance (PILG) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) in collaboration with the CHR, was Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder of the Political Science Department of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn in Germany.

In collaboration with Governor David C. Suarez of the Province of Quezon, the Pimentel Institute for Leadership and Governance (PILG) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) jointly organised a forum entitled “Federalism and Development: Effects of Decentralization, Devolution and Federalization on Business and Investment – Comparative Perspectives,” which was held last 08 March 2017 in Lucena City

In support of the government’s thrust to increase the Filipinos’ awareness about federalism, the Pimentel Institute for Leadership and Governance (PILG) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) jointly organised a forum on federalism with the Phinma Cagayan de Oro College (Phinma COC).

A forum jointly organised by the Pimentel Institute for Leadership and Governance and the Hanns Seidel Foundation in cooperation with the government of Cagayan de Oro City.