Training and Education

CLD organizes seminars and observation trips for parliamentary delegations visiting the Philippines. The study tour aims to help parliamentary delegations, local government officials, civil society organizations, and women political leaders address legislative strengthening issues in the legislative process, legislative organization and management, budget process, legislative oversight, legislative committees, representation, political parties, legislatures, and decentralization.

Advocacy training

CLD designs and conducts advocacy training programsincluding strategic planning for advocacy, agenda setting, identification and analysis of stakeholders, constituency building, and coalition building.

Local Legislative Capability Building

CLD develops information materials to increase public understanding of the structure and processes of the Philippine legislature, and provides seminars on legislative advocacy to help civil society organizations become active and informed participants in legislative decision making. It also offers training programs and research-based information and analysis to Members and technical staff of the Philippine Congress, and to civil society organizations engaged in advocacy.

CLD provides local legislators and legislative staff in the Philippines with skills-building seminars to develop functional and analytical skills necessary in performing legislative and constituency servicing roles. Modules designed to strengthen local legislatures’ institutional efficiency and effectiveness include:

Module 1: Legislative Agenda Setting

Module 2: Parliamentary Rules of Procedure

Module 3: Legislative-Executive Conflict Resolution

Module 4: Legislative Oversight - Monitoring the Implementation of Ordinances and Evaluating Policy Outcomes

Module 5: Gender Sensitivity in Local Legislation

Module 6: Developing Legislative Proposals - Policy Analysis,
Research and Ordinance Drafting