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SWDL-Net awards CWEARC for sharing its advocacy publications
Social Welfare and Development Learning Network (SWDL-Net) successfully held its 4th Quarter Learning Conversation today. It was an avenue to look back and draw lessons from its accomplishments for the year 2022 and plan for its activities for the upcoming year....
CWEARC participates in the third quarter learning conversation
On September 15, 2022, CWEARC, Inc. participated in the Third Quarter Social Welfare and Development Learning Network (SWDL-Net) and Core Group of Specialists (CGS) Interface and Learning Conversation organized by SWDL-Net and CGS of DSWD CAR. Through this activity,...
CWEARC joins SWDL Network
CWEARC participated in the Learning Conversation organized by the DSWD Social Welfare and Development Learning Network (SWDL-Net). SWDL-Net is a learning network providing relevant and accessible social welfare and development capacity building programs. The network’s...
Advocacy Publications
The following advocacy publications by CWEARC are still available: Kali: Voice of Cordillera Women (Volume XIII No.1, December 2020). Cordillera Women’s Perseverance in the Struggle for Ancestral Land, Rights and Dignity (A Women’s Anthology of Poems, Songs and...
Staff participate in the OIO PMERLA workshops
The Cordillera Women’s Education, Action Research Center (CWEARC Inc) and its partners participated in the series of Change-Oriented Project Cycle workshops (OIO Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Learning and Accountability) organized and facilitated...
Gardening in the time of a pandemic: Baguio’s urban vegetable lifeline
The health crisis and imposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) unmasked not only the shortcomings in the Philippines’ health system but also exposed the urgency of addressing issues in food security. The...
Annie’s Journey
“Annie” is a twenty-year-old Kankana-ey born and raised in Mankayan, Benguet. She comes from a family of seven, wherein she has her parents and her four younger siblings. Her parents are trying their best to make do with the meager wages that they earn from informal...
A call to action to the young indigenous women of the Cordillera
If you are like the vast majority, you probably haven’t heard of the ‘ball-squeezing’ and ‘breast-baring’ women who defended our ancestral lands from threats of unmerciful destruction. For that, you are not to blame because believe it or not, we have a state that is...
On the occasion of the 16-day campaign to end gender-based violence
On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW). It also marks the beginning of the 16 days campaign to end gender-based violence which ends on December...
An open letter to the wife, family, and friends of Brandon Lee
Our warmest solidarity greetings to all those who gave their support (moral, material and financial) to the family of Brandon in these times of great tribulation. Amid beeping life supports, bloodshot eyes from constant crying, endless questions from all over, the...