Participatory Governance

and Active Citizenship

ROSARIO D. QUIANOLA
Master TEACHER 1
ZNNH S
DIPOLOG CITY DIVISION
 Presentation Outline
Participatory governance
The role of the citizen
AP Grade 10 as a participatory space
Participatory
Governance
 In a democracy, participation is not
only a goal but also a fundamental right.
Governance refer to the processes and
institutions that contribute to public policy
how interactions are structured, how
decisions are made and how resources are
allocated.

Hence, to participate in governance means

to take part in the formulation, passage,
and/or implementation of public policies.
Civic engagement and
participatory governance are
related to each other, but they
are not the same.
Civic engagement refers to
the broader participation of
citizens in the life of their
community
Participatory governance refers to the
engagement of citizens in public
spaces that result to the formulation
and implementation of public policies
intended to improve their lives.
 Participation in the policymaking
process helps deepen democracy,
facilitate inclusive and sustained growth,
promote equity and social justice and
strengthen social capital.
Participatory governance requires
competence.
Participatory governance requires
incentive.
Empowerment as the ultimate
goal.
The role of
the citizen
 membership
status of
individuals based
State-Centered on formal legal
statutes regulated
Citizenship
2 Views of

by the State

political actors
People-Centered/ constituting
Democratic political
Citizenship communities as
public spaces
Democratic citizenship frames the unity of
a state based on shared meanings and
experiences.

Therefore our allegiance is horizontal

which in turn constructs the vertical.
ACTIVE Citizenship who we are, what is
important to us, what we should do are
actively constructed

It is not imposed upon us by the sovereign

State.

The State is not over and above us, but an

equal participant in governance.
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Active
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AP10 as a participatory
space
Araling Panlipunan Grade 10 is framed along the
three general principles of empowered
participatory governance .

1. Focus on specific tangible problems

2. Involvement of ordinary people and public
officials close to them who are affected by
these problems
3. The deliberative development of solutions to
these problems
 Araling Panlipunan Grade 10
highlights contemporary issues that
are vital to how the next generation
of Filipinos will understand who they
are, what their place is, and what
roles they should play in the local and
global communities.
 AP Grade 10 seeks to aid the
next generation (our students) in
the construction of the Filipino
citizen using their experiences of
contemporary issues as
foundation.
 There is a Big difference between:
knowing who we are knowing who we are
by name or category based on shared
experience
 A nation is a shared enterprise of
inhabitation.

How it functions and behaves largely

depend on:
1. how we relate to one another as
political and social beings, and
2. how willing we are to participate in the
policy process.
Thank you.

Questions?
 Processing:
Given what I have learned thus far:

I envision my AP 10 classroom as
____________________________________ .

To implement this vision, I need to

____________________________________ .
 Sources
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UN Economic and Social Council (2007). Participatory
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