<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"><br>Apologies for
forgetting to introduce myself and my organization. <br><br>I am Junior Research
Analyst at the Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) under the University
of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS), the
main policy research unit of the University of the Philippines (UP). I am colleagues with Ananeza Aban and
Nathaniel Candelaria who also just sent you links to some of our recent publications.
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<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Established in
2017, AltDev is one of 12 programs under UP CIDS. AltDev’s main goal is to
document paradigms, policies, grassroots practices, and projects that pose a
critical challenge to mainstream or dominant models of development. Its scope
expands to various actors within the Southeast Asia region who are undertaking
various types of alternative economic, political, social, and cultural practices.
AltDev envisions that through its documentation efforts, it can contribute to
the linking of peoples and communities in the Philippines and the rest of the
Southeast Asia region to form the building blocks of a peoples’ alternative
regional integration – a form of integration that puts people first, rather
than profits, politicking or vested interests. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-normal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">For more
information about AltDev, please visit the UP CIDS website: <a href="https://bit.ly/37MVcqb" style="color:blue">https://bit.ly/37MVcqb</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>Thank you so much.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In solidarity, </span></p>
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hans</span> <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 7:28 PM Honey Tabiola <<a href="mailto:htabiola@gmail.com">htabiola@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear partners, colleagues, friends, <div><br></div><div>We respectfully share with you our preliminary report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to grassroots and marginalized communities across the Southeast Asian region and their valuable responses and initiatives. </div><div><br></div><div>Attached is the file but you can also download the report for free through this link: </div><div><a href="https://cids.up.edu.ph/covid19portal/altdev-sea-grassroots-covid19-responses/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://cids.up.edu.ph/covid19portal/altdev-sea-grassroots-covid19-responses/</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span> <br><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>A Preliminary Report on Southeast Asian Community and Grassroots Responses in COVID-19 Times (29 May 2020)</b> <br>Eduardo C. Tadem, Ananeza P. Aban, Karl Arvin F. Hapal, Venarica B. Papa, Nathaniel P. Candelaria, Honey B. Tabiola, and Jose Monfred C. Sy<br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">ABSTRACT: As the whole world reels under the impact of the unprecedented health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been little attention on its effect on grassroots communities and marginalized sectors. This is particularly important given the haphazard and erratic manner of official measures to contain the contagion which are being implemented in a situation where health systems face serious challenges in terms of readiness to confront a crisis of this proportions. While national reports are extensively documented and macro numbers are often reported, there is a need to look more closely at underprivileged sectors and communities. This preliminary report documents what marginalized communities in Southeast Asia are engaging in and how they respond to the pandemic. Results are varied, conditioned on the location, existence of community and sectoral organizations, and levels of social solidarity and collective consciousness.<br><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Thank you so much. </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">On behalf of UP CIDS AltDev, <br><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Hans Tabiola </font></div>Junior Research Analyst<br> <br></div></div>
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