Events:  News

In celebration of the National Human Rights Consciousness Week on December 4-10, 2009, the Philippine National Police (PNP) through its Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO) organized a Book Launch last December 4 at the PNP Museum, Camp Crame, Quezon City. The two publications launched were entitled “Know Your Rights:  A Citizen’s Primer on Law Enforcement” and “A Police Guidebook on Human Rights-based Policing” and these are part of the existing joint project between the PNP HRAO and the Hanns  Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF). Read more..

Message of PSSUPT Franklin Jesus B. Bucayu >>>

Message of Mr. Paul G. Schäfer >>>

Message of PDG Jesus A. Verzosa >>>

The European IT Service Center Foundation, Inc. (EITSCFI), in partnership with the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF), through a project co-funded by the European Union entitled “Establishment of Market-driven and Technology-based Courses and Further Training for the Information Technology Sector in the National Capital Region, Philippines,” inaugurated last November 6, 2009 its third offsite computer laboratory, the EITSC Computer Laboratory, at the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC) located on the third floor of the Vidal A. Tan Hall in the University of the Philippines’s (UP) Diliman Campus in Quezon City. Read more..

With the objective of forging partnerships between educational institutions and industry in the implementation of programs under the dual training system (DTS), and of further advocating the adoption of the DTS, especially in the information technology/business process outsourcing (IT/BPO) industry, representatives from said industry, the academe/educational institutions, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) gathered in a DTS Forum held last November 6, 2009 at the National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (NISMED) Auditorium of the University of the Philippines’s (UP) Diliman Campus in Quezon City. Read more..

Message of Mr. Paul G. Schäfer >>>

In support of the joint implementation of the Human Rights Development Program of the Philippine National Police (PNP) through its Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO) in cooperation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF), one hundred twenty-five (125) police officers from the different police stations and anti-drug units of the National Capital Region (NCR) as well as investigators and operatives from selected National Operational Support Units (NOSUs) completed a 3-day “Paralegal Training: Skills Enhancement for Investigators and First Responders”. Read more..

After the successful conduct of Phase 1 of the project on “Community-based Dialogue Sessions on Human Rights Promotion and Protection between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Local Communities” during the period July 2008 to April 2009, a two-day Joint Planning Session among stakeholders working on human rights concerns coming from four regions of the country was held on 25-26 August 2009 at Hotel Vida, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga. Read more..

Message of Mr. Paul G. Schäfer >>>

Message of Hon. Leila de Lima >>>

We would like to express our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Her Excellency, President Corazon C. Aquino for her passing and join the Filipino nation in mourning the loss of a national heroine of democracy and a revered leader around the world. Read more..

Letter from Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Zehetmair >>>

Letter from Mr. Paul G. Schäfer >>>

Makati City, 02 July 2009 – Today sets another milestone in the implementation of a project entitled “Establishment of Market-driven and Technology-based Courses and Further Training for the Information Technology Sector in the National Capital Region, Philippines.” Co-funded by the European Union, Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany, and the European IT Service Center Foundation, this project is a human capability initiative enhancing the employability of students as well as strengthening the curriculum of academe. Read more...

EITSC Newsletter October 2009 Vol. 3, No.2

Key officers of the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSS) held a two-day official visit to Manila from June 22 to 23, 2009.

Hon. Michael Glos, MdB, Board Member of the HSS, who is also a Member of the German Federal Parliament and Former German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, and Mr. Christian Hegemer, Director of the Institute of International Contact and Cooperation of HSS had a full program which included important meetings and talks with key representatives of local partner organizations and top government officials, as well as members of the international community and the business sector. Read more...

In line with the project cooperation between the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany and the Philippine National Police (PNP) through its Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO) towards human rights promotion and protection, and respect for the rule of law, three (3) high-ranking officers of the PNP participated in an information/study visit to Bavaria and Berlin, Germany from May 24 to 30, 2009 sponsored by HSF. Read more...

In support of the objectives of the Microfinance Capacity Building Program, a joint undertaking of the PinoyME Foundation, Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Foundation (BSAF) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF), a research study titled  “Improving Agricultural Microfinance:  Barriers to the supply of agricultural lending in the Philippines” was conducted in cooperation with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), an international non-profit research institution, and the Microfinance Council of the Philippines (MCPI). Read more...

The full report can be viewed through the link below.

Full Report>>>

Spearheaded by the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the two-day forum on Environmental Justice with the theme Upholding a Balanced and Healthful Ecology was held successfully last 16-17 April 2009 at three different venues in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, which was organized simultaneously through video-conferencing. The main venue in Baguio City was hosted by the University of the Cordilleras for the participants coming from Luzon while those from the Visayas and Mindanao were converged at the University of the Visayas in Iloilo City and the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City, respectively. It brought together more than 500 participants from various sectors all over the country, including judges appointed to the 117 designated environmental courts. Read more...

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Following the completion of the first phase of the project titled “Community-based Dialogue Sessions on Human Rights between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, and Civil Society Organizations and Local Communities”, a project Assessment and Planning session was conducted on 14 April 2009 in Manila among the project partners, namely, the Alternative Law Groups (ALG), Beningo S. Aquino, Jr. Foundation (BSAF), the Philippine National Police (PNP) Human Rights Affairs Office (HRAO), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Human Rights Office (HRO) and Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Civil-Military Operations/J7, and the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF). The purpose of the one-day workshop was to review the project objectives and assess the results of the project activities for the period July 2008 to March 2009. Read more...

From 28 March to 01 April 2009, Dr. Peter Witterauf, General Manager of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) in Munich, Germany paid an official visit to the Philippines. Dr. Witterauf, who assumed the post of General Manager in March 2004, was pleased to have taken this trip to the country which ended in a high note. Read more...

Harmony and cooperation reverberated in the air during the Nachkontakttreffen 2009 organised by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in cooperation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF) last 20 March 2009 during which over one hundred twenty Filipinos who were former scholars to Germany were brought together in the City of Taguig. Graced by His Excellency Ambassador Christian-Ludwig Weber-Lortsch (Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany), the event reinforced HSF’s role as the catalyst in the effort of forming a federation of alumni groups of former scholars to Germany in the Philippines. Read more...

Networking gained an added dimension during the AHSFSPI Nachkontaktkonferenz 2009 (AHSFSPI Follow-up Contact Conference 2009) held last 19 to 22 March 2009 in Makati City. Organised by the Hanns Seidel Foundation/ Germany (HSF) in cooperation with the Association of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Scholars of the Philippines, Incorporated (AHSFSPI), the three-day event was graced by the presence of Dr. Michael Czepalla, the Head of Scholarship for Foreign Scientists and Postgraduates, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, e.V. and Mr. Paul G. Schäfer, the Resident Representative of HSF to the Philippines, and served to bring the members of the AHSFSPI, along with the those of six other alumni groups of former scholars to Germany in the Philippines together. Read more...

In recognition of the important role of the municipalities in nation building, the Mayor’s Development Center (MDC) and the League of Municipalities in the Philippines (LMP), with the support of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF), conducted a five-day learning event on strategic management entitled “Managing Performance of Municipal Governments: Province of Bohol”.  In attendance were 55 participants from 11 municipalities of the province of Bohol, namely: Sikatuna, Batuan, San Miguel, Carmen, Pres. C.P. Garcia, Alicia, Guindulman, Cortez, Buenavista, San Isidro and Getafe. The learning event was held last March 17-21, 2009 in Cebu City. Read more...

The Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF), European IT (Information Technology) Service Center Foundation, Inc. (EITSCFI) and the Rizal Technological University (RTU) inaugurated the 2nd offsite EITSCFI Computer Laboratory last February 27, 2009.  The setting up of the computer laboratory was realized through a cooperation among RTU, EITSCFI, HSF and co-funded by the European Commission (EC) project entitled “Establishment of Market-driven and Technology-based Courses and Further Training for the Information Technology Sector in the National Capital Region, Philippines.” Read more...

EITSC Newsletter March 2009 Vol. 3, No.1
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In line with the commitment towards the promotion and protection of human rights in the country, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Hanns Seidel Foundation/Germany (HSF) was signed last 26 February 2009. The signatories of the MOU were the respective representatives of these two institutions and the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights, Honorable Leila de Lima.  Held at PNP Headquarters in Camp Crame, the event signified the continuing partnership in the area of Human Rights Training and Education, and related research and publication activities.
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Message of Mr. Paul G. Schäfer >>>