PHILIPPINES Workshop – Quezon City

LOCAL WORKSHOPS

P R O G R A M M E

08.30-09.00
Arrival of participants

09.00-09.30
Opening activities:
Introduction of participants
Facilitators of the meetings: Mylene D. Hega, Mina Tenorio, Teresita Borgonos

9.30-10.00
The DomEQUAL Project: Status and updates

DomEQUAL: A Global Approach to Paid Domestic Work and Social Inequalities – a Project Overview
Sabrina Marchetti, Principal Investigator
Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy

Tea/Coffee Break

Panel discussion 1: The Kasambahay in the Philippines: Context, trends and issues

10.00-10.30
Domestic Workers and Trafficking in the Philippines: General situationer

Roland Pacis
Consultant for Projects and Advocacy, Visayan Forum
Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers: Trends and Situationer

10.30-11.00
Ellene Sana
Executive Director, Center for Migrant Advocacy-Philippines

11.00-11.20
Reactions:

Himaya Montenegro, UNITED Domestic Workers Union
Julius Cainglet, Federation of Free Workers

11.20-12.00
Open Forum

12.00-13.00
Lunch Break

13.00-14.00
Panel Discussion 2: Issues, Challenges and Analysis

Policy issues, gains and challenges concerning the protection of Filipino Domestic Workers Atty
Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz
Former DOLE Secretary and POEA Administrator

Care Work in the Philippines with a Feminist Lens
Prof. Rosalinda “Inday” Pineda-Ofreneo
Retired professor, University of the Philippines-College of Social Work and Community Development

Dimensions of Precarity: migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
Verna Viajar
PhD Candidate, University of Kassel

Filipino Women’s Diaspora from the perspective of domestic workers in Italy
Charito Basa
Filipino Women’s Council, Italy

14.00-15.00
Open Forum

15.00-15.30
Tea/Coffee Break

15.30-16.30
Synthesis: Milestones and Challenges for the Filipino Domestic Workers
Ms. Jurgette Honculada
National Federation of Labor former Commissioner, National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (now Philippine Commission on Women)

16.30-17.00
Closing Remarks