Social Development Imperatives in the Philippines

1. Social Development Imperatives in the Philippines Ben Teehankee Lasallian Leadership Formation Program benito.teehankee@dlsu.edu.ph

2. Our National Aspirations

3. The Philippine Constitution on Social Justice ARTICLE II: STATE POLICIES Section 9. The State shall promote a just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity and independence of the nation and free the people from poverty through policies that provide adequate social services, promote full employment, a rising standard of living, and an improved quality of life for all.

4. The Philippine Constitution on the Social Purpose of Private Property ARTICLE XII: NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PATRIMONY Section 6. The use of property bears a social function, and all economic agents shall contribute to the common good. Individuals and private groups, including corporations, cooperatives, and similar collective organizations, shall have the right to own, establish, and operate economic enterprises, subject to the duty of the State to promote distributive justice and to intervene when the common good so demands.

5. The Philippine Constitution on the Social Purpose of Private Property ARTICLE XIII, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Section 1. The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social, economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably diffusing wealth and political power for the common good. To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, and disposition of property and its increments.

6. The Philippine Constitution on the Social Purpose of Private Property ARTICLE XIII SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Section 3. LABOR The State shall afford full protection to labor, local and overseas, organized and unorganized, and  promote full employment and equality of employment opportunities for all. It shall guarantee the rights of all workers to self-organization, collective bargaining and negotiations, and peaceful concerted activities, including the right to strike in accordance with law. They shall be entitled to security of tenure, humane conditions of work, and a living wage. They shall also participate in policy and decision-making processes affecting their rights and benefits as may be provided by law. …

7. The Philippine Constitution on the Social Purpose of Private Property ARTICLE XIII SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Section 3. LABOR …. The State shall promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers and employers and the preferential use of voluntary modes in settling disputes, including conciliation, and shall enforce their mutual compliance therewith to foster industrial peace. The State shall regulate the relations between workers and employers, recognizing the right of labor to its just share in the fruits of production and the right of enterprises to reasonable returns to investments, and to expansion and growth.

8. Our National Situation

9. Figure 1: Net Sales of Top 1000 Philippine Corporations vs. Gross Domestic Product, 1988-1997(Data from Saldaña, 2000)

10. Profits are Improving BizNews Asia, January 31, 2007

11. The country’s income gap was • 2000: 31.8% • 1997: 31.6% • The income of those below the poverty threshold have to be raised by 31.8 percent to surpass the poverty threshold. Source: NSO Family Income and Expenditure Survey The Capital Market is Growing Impressively • Foreign companies • Domestic companies Courtesy of Atty. Francis Lim of the PSE

12. Philippine Poverty Thailand’s poverty rate is ALREADY below 10%! From NEDA MDG Report Citing NSCB Philippine Daily Inquirer

13. The Instrumentalization of Labor through Contractualization Cited in ADB Report

14. Compliance with the Labor Code Cited by the Asian Development Bank

16. Philippine Poverty2003 Above 30.4% Poverty Below 30.4% Poverty From NEDA MDG Report citing NSCB data Philippine Daily Inquirer

17. Growth and progress … … in the midst of distress and poverty!

18. Upliftment (“Breathing”) Society and its members = with opportunity forintegral human development Exploitation (“Drowning”) = without opportunity forintegral human development The Boat of Life: Unequal Access to Human Development The Threshold for Integral Human Development The least, the lost, the last B is sinking

19. The Various Facets of Total Human Development: BEING FULLY HUMAN Bodily Cognitive Spiritual Material Goods Emotional Moral Aesthetic Social Adapted from Alford and Naughton Managing as if Faith Mattered, 2004

20. Total Human Development • Material goods – food, shelter, clothing, transportation, etc. • Intellectual-cognitive – knowledge and the ability to reason, analyze and learn • Aesthetic/imaginative – appreciation of and ability to express beauty and creativity • Moral-spiritual – ability to discern what is right vs. what is wrong and to act accordingly; linking our actions to a higher purpose in life • Social – developing respectful and helping relations with those we live and work with; ability to connect with and help with the concerns of the bigger community; reaching out to the disadvantaged • Bodily/physical – promoting physical health, nutrition and development • Emotional/affective – ability to improve self-esteem, develop confidence, be attuned to one’s emotions and able to manage these

21. Bod Cog Cog Spi Bod Material Goods Spi Matl Goods Emo Emo Mor Mor Aes Aes Soc Soc How are people developing? The many shapes of poverty and stunted human development Bod Cog Spi Emo Mor Aes Soc B is sinking

22. The Goal of Social Transformation: Serving Society for the Common Good

23. v ORG A ORG M ORG X How Do Organizations Share Opportunities for Human Development? Society and its members M=Maintaining X=eXploiting A=Ameliorating

24. v v v vv v v v v v v Society and its members The Spreading of Human Development Benefits through Work The Threshold for Integral Human Development

45. Strategic Review for Social DevelopmentFrom Fire-fighting to Innovation: Analogies for Learning