Collaborative Prosperity-Partnership Caravan for Transformative Community Impacts towards Global Citizenship Education and Advocacy

Abstract

Towards the achievement of the Philippine commitments to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the University of Eastern Philippines pledged its commitment to contribute its share for this global policy and advocacy to fulfill its social and moral responsibility to its stakeholders, clients and partners in the development arena. Generally, the extension research aimed to foster collaborative development partnership among stakeholders in the province of Northern Samar, specifically it 1.) explore how partnership drive community transformation, 2.) identified factors contributed to the successful collaboration for global citizenship and advocacy, and 3.) developed a model-framework for implementing prosperity-partnership caravan. It employs stakeholders’ consultation, partnership agreement signing, co-management, resource sharing commitments, pledging, volunteerism, and feedbacking. There are 10 categories of stakeholders participated in the prosperity caravan namely; NGAs with 16 individual line agencies, 24 municipal LGUS, 1 academe, 12 CSOs, 13 private sectors, 220 schools, 84,000 families and 639,186 people in 569 Barangay LGUs were able to reach out. Facilitating factors that contributed to the success of the caravan were good planning, advance preparation and mobilization, monitoring and reporting, and documentation, resources sharing and complementation, and delivery of program, products and services offerings of development partners and stakeholders.