Date: January 13, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue: JV 2-4, 4/F AIM Conference Center Manila
SWS 2008 Surveys Review
For eight years now, the AIM Policy Center (in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation) has been teaming up with the Social Weather Stations (SWS) to review the major lessons of the past year from the unique perspective of SWS Survey respondents in the SWS Survey Review conference.
In 2008, the issues that were at the forefront of the national consciousness were: hunger (that climbed to a record high at 23.7%) and self-rated poverty; extension of term limits for Philippine elected officials and Charter Change; the state of corruption in both the public and private sectors through the Survey of Enterprises; family planning education and the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill; the Senate ZTE-NBN Probe; the US elections; and the ranking of the 2010 presidentiables.
Dr. Mahar Mangahas, president of SWS, presented the survey results in detail before a large audience represented by the various sectors—academe, business, diplomatic corps, government, civil society, and the media, along with Secretary of Defense Gilberto Teodoro, Jr. and Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz as reactors.
Mr. Klaus Preschle, country representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation opened the programme, while Professor Sonny B. Coloma of the AIM wrapped up with a synthesis. Present in the audience was former Secretary of Health Dr. Alberto Romualdez.
