KKP-SIO’s Advocacy Work

This was taken from her staple section in the Dialogues, Editor’s Message, 1st Semester 2010-2011 Issue.

KKP’s experience of doing advocacy over the years has taught us, the faculty program officers, how to instigate major campaigns, how to mobilize stakeholders and support groups, and how to conscienticize people. In brief, we learned and are still learning to make advocacy as influential means or process to create change.

KKP took aggressive stance in the course of its many advocacy work. It strived to live up to its mandate as a social formation and as a social advocacy unit in the university as it employed concrete methods to advocate change on social issues that hamper human dignity. Some of its engagements were those related to electoral change, agrarian reform, access to quality education, environmental preservation, and youth leadership.

Our insights and learnings from our experiences have shaped various adjustments and appropriation in the implementation of our advocacy program. However, we still see spaces for improvement and see the need to further develop our advocacy work, especially making it more of an expression of the essentials of our Jesuit education.  Hence, the adoption of Ignatian advocacy as the way of doing advocacy, a kind of advocacy that makes alive the service of faith and the spirituality of justice.