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A German foundation committed to the values of social democracy, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung established its Philippines office in 1964.
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𝗙𝗘𝗦 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀: 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲. 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. Since 1964, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) has worked with partners in the Philippines to strengthen democracy, promote social justice, and advocate for a fair and sustainable economy. We create spaces for dialogue, provide policy advice, and support movements that push for progressive change. We work to build a democracy that is inclusive and account

able. This means supporting political system reforms, strengthening civil society, and training young leaders to take part in decision-making. We stand for social justice by fighting for workers' rights, modernizing social protection, and ensuring that policies protect those most at risk. We push for a sustainable economy that benefits all, not just the few. Our work includes advocating for fair wages, climate action, and economic policies that prioritize people over profit. We focus on:
✅ Peace and security – Promoting conflict resolution, democratic oversight, and human rights in security governance.
✅ Security sector reform – Strengthening civilian control, accountability, and transparency in the security sector.
✅ Geopolitics – Advocating for multilateralism, regional cooperation, and a foreign policy that upholds democracy and human rights.
✅ Gender justice – Advancing equal rights, representation, and opportunities for all.
✅ Climate justice – Ensuring a just energy transition that puts communities before corporations.
✅ Trade unions and labor rights – Empowering workers to fight for fair wages, decent work, and strong social protections.
✅ Good governance – Supporting democratic institutions, electoral reforms, and active civic participation.
✅ The future of work – Addressing automation, digitalization, and migration to secure workers' rights.
✅ Youth leadership development – Equipping young leaders with the skills and networks to shape policies and push for progressive change. Together with our partners, we are building a just, democratic, and sustainable Philippines. Real change happens when we stand together.

11/05/2026

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁?

While we often think of our digital lives as existing in the cloud, the physical reality is located on the ocean floor. Over 95 percent of international internet traffic and vital energy corridors are anchored to the seafloor. This space has become a hidden frontline for global security.

The report from the 2025 Germany-Philippines Strategic Dialogue written together with the Foundation for the National Interest (FNI) and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) reveals how this shared vulnerability links the security fates of two distant regions. From the Baltic to the South China Sea, the protection of these invisible economic arteries is a primary reason for forging new and diverse partnerships.

The findings provide a roadmap for resilience by examining why the seafloor is a critical point in modern security and how geography no longer serves as a buffer against digital disruption. This research establishes a strategic framework for German-Philippine maritime cooperation to protect the vital lines that power our world.

Download the publication here 👇
https://philippines.fes.de/e/bilateral-dialogue-germany-philippines-2025.html

11/05/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆?

The 13th batch of the Academy of Political Management (APM) spent a week in Iloilo examining what democratic leadership requires at a time when governance demands are becoming more complex, public expectations are rising, and political actors are expected to navigate deep social and economic pressures.

Across sessions on political systems, governance, public finance, sustainability, peace and security, gender justice, and political organization, fellows explored how institutions function in practice and how leaders across government, civil society, media, and the private sector shape public trust, policy outcomes, and democratic accountability. The programme also examined the realities of governing in environments shaped by inequality, competing interests, polarization, and rapidly changing political and economic conditions. Discussions challenged fellows to think beyond technical solutions and consider the broader institutional, social, and political dimensions of leadership and reform. The leadership democracy can rely on is built long before public office, through the kind of sustained formation work programmes like APM are designed to do.

The Academy of Political Management (APM) is Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Philippines’ flagship leadership programme, bringing together emerging leaders committed to social democracy, ethical governance, and meaningful reform. Now in its 13th batch, the programme continues to strengthen a growing network of individuals working across sectors who recognize that democratic governance depends on institutions capable of responding to public needs while sustaining accountability, participation, and long-term reform.

Follow along as APM Batch 13 continues engaging with the evolving questions shaping governance and democratic leadership in the Philippines.

07/05/2026

𝗔𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼 𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗢 𝗻𝗮 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗽 𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗴𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿

May rider sa likod ng bawat order ng pagkain o package sa app. Pero bihira ang customer na nag-iisip kung anong panganib ang hinaharap ng mga ito. Para sa mga platform company, independent contractors lang ang mga rider, kaya nasa labas sila ng proteksyon ng Labor Code. Sapat na ang isang reklamo ng customer para sila ay mapatawan ng automatic suspension. Pag na-ban, hindi na kikita ang rider. Hindi kailangan ng pormal na imbestigasyon para mangyari ito, at walng proseso para umapila.

Ito’y pamilyar na pangyayari sa mga manggagawang Pilipino. Dati, ENDO ang ginagamit ng mga employer (short-term contracts para hindi maabot ng manggagawa ang regularisasyon at ang mga benefit na kaakibat nito). May mga trabahador ngunit walang pananagutan dito. Ganito rin ang ginagawa ng mga platform company ngayon, sa pamamagitan ng klasipikasyon at algorithm. Ang resulta ay dumadami ang mga manggagawang nakasalalay nang buo sa algorithm ang kabuhayan.

Inoorganisa ni Geoffrey Labudahon ang mga rider batay sa realidad na ito. Siya ang National Coordinator ng RIDERS-SENTRO. Sa kanyang video, binibigyan niya ng mukha ang isyu na ito.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗢 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

Every time a Filipino orders food or a package through an app, a rider takes on the work. Most customers never consider what that rider risks. Platform companies classify riders as independent contractors, placing them outside the Labor Code’s protections. A complaint from a customer can trigger an automatic suspension, and a ban ends their income permanently with no formal investigation or appeals process required.

Filipino workers have seen this logic before. ENDO employers once structured short-term contracts to keep workers just short of regularization, maintaining a workforce while avoiding accountability to it. Platform companies have done the same through classification and algorithm, and the result is a growing number of workers whose livelihoods depend entirely on an algorithm.

Geoffrey Labudahon, National Coordinator of RIDERS-SENTRO, has spent years organizing riders around that reality. His video puts a face to what the numbers only suggest. Watch it here.

29/04/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆. 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻?

The Philippines just declared a national energy emergency, the first country in the world to do so. The shift off fossil fuels has become a survival question, and the young Filipinos who will live longest with today's energy decisions deserve a real hand in shaping them.

𝗥𝗘𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗧 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝟲 is now open for applications. Over 12 months, you will build green skills, work with communities living through the energy transition, and develop actual policy and project proposals with our partners Reboot Philippines, CARRD, Kasama Ka! Laguna, and Green Empowered Alliance.

If you are 18 to 30 and want to help lead a just, decentralized, and community-driven energy future, this is for you.

Deadline for applications is on 06 June 2026!

Learn more about how to apply here:
👉bit.ly/FES-REBOOT-2026

23/04/2026

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐨

The FES Academy of Political Management (APM) Batch 13 conducted a learning visit on April 22, 2026, at the Province of Iloilo, held at the Casa Real de Iloilo.

The visit aimed to provide fellows with deeper insights into the province’s social justice agenda, particularly its flagship development framework, MoRProGRes Iloilo. Through engagements with provincial leaders—including Governor Arthur Defensor Jr., Vice Governor Nathalie Ann Debuque, and Sangguniang Panlalawigan Members Jason Gonzales and Rolando Distura—participants explored how local governance translates policy into concrete programs that advance inclusive and people-centered development.

Sessions highlighted key initiatives in legislation, population and development, public health, education, and renewable energy—demonstrating Iloilo’s integrated approach to governance and sustainable development.

The learning visit forms part of APM’s commitment to bridging theory and practice, equipping emerging leaders with grounded perspectives on effective governance in action.

15/04/2026

Join us this Friday for an in-depth expert dialogue following the launch of our new study, “Advancing Feminist Principles in the Asia-Pacific through International Policy”.

The event will feature a distinguished panel of leaders who will provide regional context and share their insights on the future of inclusive international policy:

🟣 Former Amb. Prakash Kumar Suvedi, Executive Director, Institute of Foreign Affairs

🟣 Bandana Rana, Member, UN CEDAW Committee

🟣 Patricia Miranda Wattimena, Program Coordinator, Environment and ESCR

🟣 Dr. Amlan Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

💡Together we will explore evidence-based pathways to address social inequalities through a more coherent and inclusive policymaking.

Event Details:

📅 Date: Friday, 17 April 2026

🕒 Time: 16:30 (Kathmandu) | 17:45 (Bangkok) | 11:45 (CEST)

💻 Platform: Zoom

🗣 Language: English

📌 Join us in the dialogue. Register here: 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RaasA1tLSu25LptEpvXV3Q

10/04/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀

Every Saturdy of March, the 13th batch of the Academy of Political Management's met online for the first cluster of the program, entitled "From Polarization to Participation: Bridging the Identity Divide".

The sessions opened with an orientation, followed by a deep dive with Dr. Diwa Malaya Quiñones into how identity shapes political behavior. She discussed how our sense of "we" influences beliefs, what we're willing to hear, and how we engage. Dr. Nicole Curato then introduced deliberative democracy as a practical framework for moving beyond polarization through structured listening, dialogue, and collective decision-making.

How we see ourselves shapes what we're willing to hear, who we trust, and how we participate in political life. Emerging leaders who want to build more inclusive politics need to understand identity and polarization, and the deliberate spaces that make genuine dialogue possible.

Follow along as APM Batch 13 continues on the next stop of their journey: Cluster 2 in Iloilo City!

10/04/2026

𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮-𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

FES Asia-Pacific just wrapped a two-day Future of Work Conference in Bangkok, bringing together trade unions, AI experts, and labour policy specialists to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the region: can platform economies grow without pushing more workers into precarity?

Across the region, countries are beginning to act. Singapore’s Platform Workers Act came into force in January 2025, and Malaysia passed the world’s first comprehensive Gig Workers Bill in September 2025, covering over 1.2 million workers. These are early but meaningful signals that the region is starting to take platform worker protection seriously.

As a country with one of the fastest-growing platform and gig workforces in the region and one of the highest rates of informal digital labour in the world, the Philippines has every reason to be part of this conversation, and to turn regional momentum into protections that reach millions of workers at home.

Key issues discussed in Bangkok, including the upcoming ILO Convention on Platform Work, AI’s role in supply chain governance, and what fair digital labour standards could look like in practice, are exactly the questions that matter for workers and policymakers here at home.

06/04/2026

𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀' 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮

From 23-27 March 2026, we launched the Women in Security Programme 2026, bringing together emerging Filipina leaders in the security sector.

Over five days, participants engaged in intensive discussions on maritime security, geoeconomics, civil-military relations, and the blue economy, alongside critical conversations on human security, climate change, and gender in security institutions. The workshop featured leading experts from academia, government, and the security sector, creating a dynamic space for learning and exchange.

Security policy shapes who gets protected, how threats are defined, and whose experiences count as a risk worth responding to. When women are excluded from that process, the gaps show. The Women, Peace and Security Index, which ranks 181 countries on women's inclusion, justice, and security, finds that where women are excluded from policymaking, security analysis develops blind spots, missing critical early warning signals and consistently underaddressing threats to civilian communities.

Follow along for more insights and highlights from the programme.

18/03/2026

𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁.

The Philippines is on track to massively expand renewable energy. That's the good news. The risks that come with that expansion however — risks to communities, ecosystems, and livelihoods — are harder to see. Left unaddressed, they become the very thing that slows the transition down: opposition, delays, projects that stall.

Governance is what will close this gap. On 19 March, REI Philippines presents six prototypes to government — practical interventions co-designed with 50+ leaders across industry, civil society, and communities to address these barriers head-on.

Stay tuned to find out more.

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities
Oxfam Pilipinas
The CENTRE Philippines
Business and Human Rights Centre
Forum for the Future

17/03/2026

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀

Security debates are often shaped within a narrow circle. Yet the challenges facing today’s policy community are increasingly complex, requiring perspectives that reflect the diversity of the societies they seek to protect. Despite the vital role women play in peacebuilding, governance, and public service, they remain underrepresented in many of the institutions where national security and foreign policy discussions take place.

The 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 was created to help address this gap. Each year, it brings together emerging Filipina leaders from across government, academia, civil society, and media who are already engaging with the evolving questions shaping the country’s security landscape.

Over the coming months, the 2026 fellows will take part in workshops, mentorship, and policy dialogues designed to deepen their expertise while strengthening the networks that sustain thoughtful and inclusive security conversations.

Investing in early-career leaders matters. The ideas and relationships built at this stage often shape the policy debates of the years ahead. Follow the cohort’s journey over the coming months as they engage with the evolving questions shaping security and governance in the Philippines.

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