The UNESCO sub-regional meeting supports the call of the UN Secretary General in its Transforming Education System (TES) Summit in New York in September 2022. It recognizes that education is a foundation for peace, tolerance, human rights, and sustainable development.  As the world emerges from the Covid-19 crisis, the Summit has provided an opportunity to mobilize greater commitment, and action to reverse the slide on SDG 4, reimagine education, and accelerate progress on education and the 2030 Agenda more broadly for the remainder of the Decade of Action.

UNESCO Jakarta, the sub-regional main office that includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Philippines, and Brunei, as a response to the call, organized a Sub-Regional Meeting on Education Recovery and Transmission.  The sub-regional meeting  was a follow up to the action tracks commitment on TES, aiming to discuss on sub-regional’s education trends and key issues.  Discussions generated recommendations for the subregion to going forward in terms of priority actions and implementation strategies from the perspective system transformation and building resilience and improving learning for accelerating progress towards SDG4.

With the UNESCO Invitation to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to the Sub-Regional Meeting, the CHED Commission en Banc nominated Assoc. Prof. Ninia Calaca as the country representative for Higher Education. Calaca is a Member of the CHED Technical Working Group for Flexible Learning, the TWG in-charge of the policies and directions during and post-pandemic, and a CHED Technical Panel on Transnational Education and Distance Education since 2015. She is instrumental to several researches of the Commission during the pandemic, and in determining future directions of the higher education. Initially, Calaca presented ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of the Philippine Higher Education: Initial Results of Rapid Appraisal of Learning Gains, Loss, and Well-being in Higher Education’ in the Philippine Social Development Council – Technical Board Meeting last September 2, 2022 as CHED Technical Expert.  Her exposure on SDGs started when she studied in New Zealand, for her second Masteral in Development Studies. Her contributions to SDGs were reinforced by her industry experience, working with the company CEO who chairs four (4) UN Committees, and who introduced the 17^th SDG on Partnerships for the GOALS.

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Juan Health PH
Besting the neighboring ASEAN countries to claim the top award, Felix and Seares launched Juan Health PH, the official entry of the Philippines in the contest, as a part of their social journalism campaign to empower and to provide Filipino communities with fresh, accurate, and accessible information on public health across different social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. 

“Nag-establish po kami ng isang youth-led organization that addresses community and public health dilemmas,” said Felix in an interview with the Communications Bureau. “We built (Juan Health PH) from scratch in just the one month grading period (from) June 6, 2021 to July 6, 2021.” Felix added.

With 170 members across 12 regions, as of August 31, 2021, Juan Health PH is powered by youth journalists, artists, translators, and management staff to help uphold the truth in the new normal, and to amplify the voices of the Filipino people.

Likewise, as a part of its initiative to disseminate their advocacy to a broader audience, the digital publication has been releasing highly-informative content in different languages, namely in English, Filipino, Bikolano, Hiligaynon, and Bisaya, to name some.

Meanwhile, Seares is the current Editor-in-Chief of the UST Purple Gazette, the official student publication of the Faculty of Pharmacy, succeeding Felix in the position.

An initiative by the ASEAN Foundation, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Embassy of Ireland to recognize creative campaigns that helped communities in ASEAN nations, the theme of the AYSJ 2021 was “#ASEANYouth and COVID-19 ─ Response, Recovery, and Resilience.â€�

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