1. Since its conception, Social Watch Philippines (SWP) has been involved in the struggle to eradicate poverty and its causes by holding governments, the UN system, and international organizations accountable for the fulfillment of commitments to eradicate poverty. When the Millennium Development Goals were adopted in 2000, SWP was among the first groups in the Philippines to engage and contribute in processes that promote adequate funding and align policy directions toward MDG implementation. Since then and up to this point, the organizations has been involved in monitoring and evaluating progress with the MDG commitment. Our commitment has always been to promote people-centered sustainable development, realize and uphold human rights, and ensure equitable distribution of wealth. Such are the key messages we always convey when we engage with stakeholders in the discourse of post-2015 development agenda; and these are the same aspirations we hope to be realized by the Sustainable Development Goals. Social Watch Philippines Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Engagement Program anchors on the objective that entails promoting a new global development framework that will reflect goals and targets important to those left behind by the so-called ?growth?, with particular attention to ensuring sufficient financing for the new agenda and strong accountability mechanisms that will guarantee delivery of development targets.

Financing for Development is an issue very close to the heart of SWP. Much of the issues and concerns we raise on consultations and forums related to the post-2015 agenda are focused on addressing bottlenecks in generating sufficient, gender-sensitive, and progressive financing for social development programs and ensuring accountability of governments. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was a very important event to the organization. To prepare for it, SWP organized a roundtable on financing for development with participants from the government and civil society groups to discuss state of play of the FfD and gather CSO key messages that were fed to the Philippine position on FfD.

SWP had participated in several UN-sponsored processes in the regional and global levels and these were: Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (13-16 July 2015); Asia-Pacific High-Level Consultation on Financing for Development in Jakarta (29-30 April 2015); Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (15-17 May 2014); Asia-Pacific Outreach Meeting on Sustainable Development Financing in Jakarta, Indonesia (10-11 June 2014) and; Regional Consultation on Accountability for the Post-2015 Agenda (5-6 August 2014).

At the national level, SWP is consistent in discussing positions and recommendations on the SDGs through consultations, roundtables, and workshops organized by focal government agency for the Sustainable Development Goals: the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA). Specifically, the organization was able to join two technical workshops of NEDA on important post-2015 document, one on the proposed universal goals and national targets of the post-2015 agenda (16 September 2014; Manila, Philippines) and the other was on zero draft of the outcome document for the UN summit (16 June 2015; Manila, Philippines). SWP was also present in the NEDA-sponsored roundtable on the SDGs and Financing for Development (June 2015).
3. Main strategies and activities of SWP in relation to the post-2015 global agenda include: (i) sustaining engagement with the UN and key government agencies in the Philippines as well as civil society groups working on the post-2015 agenda; (ii) crafting the MDG shadow report that will bridge the MDGs with the new development goals; (iii) mainstreaming the post-2015 agenda by conducting forums, dialogues, consultations and other venues for engagement that discuss and link the Sustainable Development Goals to national development concerns; (iv) integrating the post-2015 agenda in SWP?s Alternative Budget Initiative agenda to sustain and strengthen advocacy and campaign for sustainable development and financing in the Philippines; and (v) crafting statements, positions, briefers, and other related materials that will provide analyses, recommendations and updates on the remaining processes of the post-2015 agenda. YES - 2014SWPannualreportJan-Jan2015.zip Social Watch Philippines is convened by five persons and supported by a secretariat. Members compose of non-government organizations and people's organizations in different areas of advocacies that converge under the Alternative Budget Initiative, a project that focuses on advocating and campaigning for sufficient funding for anti-poverty and social development programs. The convenors are composed of:

Prof Leonor Magtolis-Briones, SWP Lead Convenor and Professor Emeritus of University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration and Governance ( Filipino)

Isagani Serrano, SWP co-convenor and President of Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (Filipino)

Rene Raya, SWP co-convenor and Senior Policy Analyst of Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (Filipino)

Ma. Victoria Raquiza, SWP co-convenor and University of the Philippines Associate Professor (Filipino)

Jessica Cantos, SWP co-convenor and President of Action for Economic Reforms, on-leave (Filipino)
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