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#KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall University Roadshow Country Partnership Framework Consultation As part of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) consultations, the World Bank Group (WBG) conducted a university roadshow called #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall to gather views from a broad spectrum of college‐aged students on what they think should be priorities for the country in the next five years. This series of activities led to engagements with five Universities, physical attendance of 460 students in introductory forums, and written comments from 1,134 young citizens (and counting). The #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall is a means of obtaining the views of the youth through a booth set‐ up where they can write their comment on a designed and branded postcard pertaining to a development theme identified in the SCD as a priority constraint. The initiative was patterned closely to the creative idea of the EXT Thailand team. Spearheaded by the External and Corporate Relations (ECR), the Philippines version was conducted through partnerships student groups in five Universities. With institutional acknowledgement of each college, the students host a forum on one of WBG’s reports as the opening activity. At each forum, after the WB presents an existing report and then the CPF consultation is explained, there is a segment to formally launch the booth. During this segment students hear about the mechanics of the activity, an explanation of the themes for each postcard, a handful of students write their thoughts on the postcard and explains it to the audience, and they each post to the feedback wall and take a photo. The five themed‐postcards are for HUMAN CAPITAL, PROGRESS, INEQUALITY, RESILIENCE AND PEACE. In each postcard, questions were raised as follows: How can the Philippines achieve PROGRESS?; How can the Philippines achieve and sustain PEACE?; How can the Philippine reduce INEQUALITY?; How can the Philippines improve HUMAN CAPITAL?; and How can the Philippines be more RESILIENT?. A wide range of feedback and recommendation were raised to address these developmental issues. Students were encouraged to pick one among the five which they consider the top priority, and write their views, opinions, comments, and recommendations for the issue. The participants are encouraged to stick their postcards on the feedback wall and post them in social media using the official hashtag:

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#KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall   University Roadshow  

Country Partnership Framework Consultation  

As part of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) consultations, the World Bank Group (WBG) 

conducted a university roadshow called #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall to gather views from a broad 

spectrum of college‐aged students on what they think should be priorities for the country in the next 

five years. This series of activities led to engagements with five Universities, physical attendance of 460 

students in introductory forums, and written comments from 1,134 young citizens (and counting).  

The #KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall is a means of obtaining the views of the youth through a booth set‐

up where they can write their comment on a designed and branded postcard pertaining to a 

development theme identified in the SCD as a priority constraint. The initiative was patterned closely to 

the creative idea of the EXT Thailand team. Spearheaded by the External and Corporate Relations (ECR), 

the Philippines version was conducted through partnerships student groups in five Universities. 

With institutional acknowledgement of each college, the students host a forum on one of WBG’s reports 

as the opening activity. At each forum, after the WB presents an existing report and then the CPF 

consultation is explained, there is a segment to formally launch the booth. During this segment students 

hear about the mechanics of the activity, an explanation of the themes for each postcard, a handful of 

students write their thoughts on the postcard and explains it to the audience, and they each post to the 

feedback wall and take a photo.  

 

The five themed‐postcards are for HUMAN CAPITAL, PROGRESS, INEQUALITY, RESILIENCE AND PEACE. In 

each postcard, questions were raised as follows: How can the Philippines achieve PROGRESS?; How can 

the Philippines achieve and sustain PEACE?; How can the Philippine reduce INEQUALITY?; How can the 

Philippines improve HUMAN CAPITAL?; and How can the Philippines be more RESILIENT?. A wide range 

of feedback and recommendation were raised to address these developmental issues.  

Students were encouraged to pick one among the five which they consider the top priority, and write 

their views, opinions, comments, and recommendations for the issue. The participants are encouraged 

to stick their postcards on the feedback wall and post them in social media using the official hashtag: 

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#KayaYanBayan. The feedback wall stayed in each university from three to five days in which partner 

student organizations utilized customized strategies to gather feedback. At the end of each roadshow, 

the feedback wall, together with the postcards, were collected. There were also social media 

monitoring. 

Academic partners 

The campuses visited were the University of Makati (UMak), Far Eastern University (FEU), University of 

the Philippines – Los Baños (UPLB), Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU), and Palawan State University 

(PSU). Three among the five universities are not yet part of the Knowledge for Development Community 

(KDC). See Annex 1 for details. UMak is run by the City Government and is known for providing free 

college education to students from poor backgrounds, there were a number of former 4Ps beneficiaries 

in the audience. FEU is a large middle‐tier private University, and AdMU is among the elite private 

Universities where students are in high‐income level.  

 

The #KayaYanBayan feedback wall kicked‐off in UMak with the presentation of Poverty Assessment on 

August 7, 2019 and ended in AdMU with the presentation of East Asia Pacific Economic Update on 

August 23, 2019. Total 460 students attended the events. Each student group created their own 

publicity materials, including a video, posters, and social media promotion.  

Moving forward, UMak and FEU are keen on entering a more formal and longer‐term knowledge‐sharing 

partnership with the Bank perhaps through the KDC network. 

#KayaYanBayan Postcards Results 

Total of one thousand one hundred thirty‐four (1,134) postcards were filled out by students from the 

five participating universities. Among the five universities that the #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall 

visited, UMak had the highest number of postcard because the partner student organization was 

holding a department week celebration at the same time. The figure below contains a tally of postcards 

received from each University. 

One can consider the postcard theme selection as a form of survey since they were asked to pick the 

one they think is the priority. In this respect, PROGRESS has the most selections (292), followed closely 

by PEACE (271). In general, the distribution is rather even, with none of the themes standing out as 

having no resonance with the audience.  

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The team read all the postcard entries and grouped specific comments into subthemes within each of 

the five themes.  Sub‐themes emerged from each postcard that are categorized as “Call for Character 

Building”, “Recommendation” and “Call to Action”. 

Specific recommendations of students for each postcard. 

Students across four participating universities placed PROGRESS as its the number one priority the 

Philippines should focus on the next five years. Within this theme the specific concerns that top the list 

are: the need to improve the educational system and quality of education in the country; develop the 

agricultural sector; and create more local SMEs and support existing ones. A significant portion of 

students in the Mero Manila schools flagged the need to improve the public transportation. The table 

below lists some of the recommendations on how the Philippines can achieve PROGRESS. 

PROGRESS 

improve educational system and quality of education 

improve public transportation system 

develop agricultural sector 

create more local SMEs and support existing ones 

attract foreign investors by ease‐in‐doing business 

better allocation of resources 

build infrastructure and educational opportunities in rural areas 

check environmental‐friendly policies in infrastructure 

create more job opportunities 

give incentives to transparent companies 

give more funds for agricultural workers 

handle credit cycle efficiently 

help minority group 

include financial literacy in school  

increase minimum wage 

invest in sustainable technology 

maximize natural resource 

nurture infant industries 

promote competition 

promote ease of doing business 

promote environmental‐friendly produce without cutting off wages 

 

PEACE is the second most‐selected postcard. Students emphasize these specific recommendations: 

improve and implement government peace policies; agrarian reform; and more engagement in peace 

dialogues both locally and internationally. The table below lists some of the students’ thoughts about 

specific areas that need attention relating to achieving and maintaining PEACE.  

PEACE 

improve and implement government peace policies 

agrarian reform 

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provide proper education for children in war zones 

development in agricultural sector 

more engagement in peace dialogues locally and internationally 

enhance military force 

include history of Mindanao in curriculum and ROTC in school 

social and cultural assimilation 

training for law enforcers 

provide equal access to basic needs 

 

Almost equal to PEACE, many students also chose INEQUALITY as a priority theme. They recognize that 

INEQUALITY is prevalent in the society and attention needs to be paid to marginalized and 

disadvantaged sectors, providing good jobs, improving education, and expanding social welfare among 

others. The table shows recommendations in reducing INEQUALITY in these sectors. 

INEQUALITY 

more opportunities to disadvantaged and marginalized sector 

lower tax for the poor 

abolish provincial minimum wage 

create competitive jobs 

create more benefits for workers 

establish stricter policies on employers   

make opportunities more accessible 

raise farmer's wage and teacher's salary and re‐evaluate minimum wage 

improve quality of education 

free education 

provide skill trainings 

increase subsidies for public school 

make secondary education more accessible 

remove privation of schools 

 cultural and intellectual exchange and activities 

promote family planning and maternal care 

universal health care in rural areas 

create more cash transfer programs 

decentralize government and businesses 

establish more laws and policies addressing inequality 

increase inheritance tax 

increase standard of living in other areas 

migration and mobility of people 

promote local products  

regulation and monitoring in financial markets 

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taxation  

 

For HUMAN CAPITAL, there are specific comments relating to health, education, employment, and social 

protection.  

HUMAN CAPITAL 

create better health services by building more public hospitals, providing free annual check‐ups and mental health consultation 

focus on research and development 

free education and more subsidies for public school 

improve quality of basic education 

provide more skill trainings 

promote outcome‐based education 

double CCT and UCT for short‐term and long‐term welfare needs 

create equal job opportunities 

create high paying jobs 

create jobs for the poor 

increase minimum wage and teacher's salary 

reduce required labor hours for blue collar workers 

retention policy and welfare for workers 

standardize incentives 

create more laws and policies supporting human capital 

make basic needs more accessible 

 

For RESILIENCE, the following are some of the recommendations: include disaster risk reduction in 

academic curriculum; modernization of technology; create more laws relating to disaster risk reduction; 

environmental conservation and rehabilitation; and build earthquake‐, landslide‐, and flood‐proof 

infrastructure. The table below shows more recommendations on how the Philippines can be more 

RESILIENT. 

RESILIENCE 

include disaster risk reduction in academic curriculum 

modernization of technology 

create more laws relating to disaster risk reduction 

promote environmental conservation and rehabilitation 

build earthquake‐, landslide‐, and flood‐proof infrastructure 

clean‐up operation of drainage system and others 

awareness campaign on disaster risk reduction 

develop agricultural sector 

provide insurance for farmers to recover 

urban and rural infrastructure plans 

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provide ROTC or trainings on survival in school 

empower 3R movement 

provide farmers tools to adapt with climate change 

implementation of disaster risk reduction 

rehabilitate destroyed areas 

promote micro‐farming 

strengthen disaster risk reduction management 

provide advanced equipment for PAGASA and PHIVOLCS 

 

“Call to Action” for developmental issues.  

Participants of the #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall also spoke about social, justice, and governance issues 

in  a  manner  that  calls  for  specific  action.  They  mentioned  things  like  gender  equality;  ending 

contractualization;  and  good  governance  as ways  to  address  developmental  issues  in  the  country.  In 

particular, under Inequality there are specific mentions of equity not equality, equal opportunities for all, 

freedom from prejudice and discrimination, saving farmers, human rights, stopping labor abuse, pursuing 

social equity, stricter rules on capitalism. 

Under  the  Peace  pillar  there  are  specific  calls  to  protecting  rights,  teaching  peace,  cultivating  youth 

leaders,  rehabilitating  Marawi,  preventing  war,  stopping  the  killings  in  Negros,  addressing  the  drug 

problem, and providing welfare for all.  

In Resilience there are calls to stop illegal mining, disallowing incineration, reducing plastics use, and 

stopping deforestation.  

Students across the participating universities call for “character building”.  

Among the five themed postcards, character‐related issues such as discipline, love and respect, and 

unity are the top values that students think Filipinos should inculcate to achieve development. 

The postcard for PEACE elicited the most character‐related comments. Students identified love and 

respect, discipline, unity, and understanding as essential for Filipinos to achieve and sustain PEACE. 

Values students think Filipinos need to strengthen in order to achieve and sustain PEACE include the 

following as well: being productive and responsible citizens, forgiveness, patriotism/nationalism, cultural 

and social awareness and acceptance, self‐peace, God centeredness, trust, mindset and character, hope, 

leadership, optimism, and order.  

The INEQUALITY and PROGRESS themes resulted in similar notions of love and respect, but also: 

acceptance and acknowledging rights of every individual, cultural and social awareness, values 

formation, and no favoritism.   

Students express that being the best version of oneself and being effective and diligent citizens, is the 

main key to improve one’s HUMAN CAPITAL. For RESILIENCE additional themes are self‐sufficiency, 

optimism, and discipline and professionalism.  

Students express that unity, discipline and professionalism, and awareness and open mindedness are 

values Filipinos should strengthen to be more RESILIENT.   

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Annex 1: University Roadshow schedule and university‐based student organization 

  University of Makati

Far Eastern University

University of the Philippines Los Baños

Palawan State University

Ateneo de Manila University

Partner Student Organization

Samahang Pugadlawin under College of Education and Arts and Letters, in   coordination with the Office of Student Life  

FEU International Studies Society in coordination with Department of International Studies  

UP Alliance of Development Communications Student in coordination with Office of Student Affairs 

Student Government in coordination with the PSU Library‐KDC 

Ateneo Economics Association 

Forum speaker Sharon Piza David Llorito Clarissa David 

None  David Llorito Clarissa David 

David Llorito Stephanie Anne Margallo 

Souleyman Coulibaly Clarissa David 

#KayaYanBayan Wall Launch Date

August 7, 2019 with Poverty Assessment Forum 

August 14, 2019 

August 13, 2019  August 19, 2019  August 22, 2019 with East Asia Pacific Economic Update Forum 

Participants in forum (est.)

120  40  80  100  120 

#KayaYanBayan wall Running date

August 7‐10, 2019 

August 13‐16, 2019 

August 13, 16, 2019 

August 19‐23, 2019 

August 20, 22, and 23, 2019 

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Annex 2: #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall design, postcards, and mechanics 

#KayaYanBayan Feedback Wall 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#KayaYanBayan Postcards 

 

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#KayaYanBayan Feedback wall Mechanics   

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Annex 3: Photos  

Photos in University of Makati (UMak) 

 

Prof. Virgilio Tabbu, Dean for Office of Student Life in University of Makati, welcoming the World Bank team and UMak faculty 

and students to the launch of #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall and Poverty Assessment forum. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Sharon Piza presenting the Poverty Assessment in University of Makati. 

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UMak student participating during the open forum on Poverty Assessment. 

 

UMak students taking grou‐fie with the World Bank team and Prof. Tabbu. 

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Photos in Far Eastern University 

 

FEU‐International Studies society held a ribbon‐cutting ceremony to officially launch the #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall. Photo 

credit: FEU‐International Studies Society. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEU Tamaraws choosing postcards that most resonate with them. Photo credit: FEU‐International Studies Society. 

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#KayaYanBayan Feedback wall filled with postcards. Photo credit: FEU‐International Studies Society. 

 

FEU student with his postcard. Photo credit: FEU‐International Studies Society. 

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Photos in University of the Philippines‐Los Baños (UPLB) 

 

#KayaYanBayan Feedback wall set up during its launch in University of the Philippines Los Baños and students posing before 

they post their cards on the feedback wall. 

 

UP Alliance of Development Communications Student, Mr. Rocky Marcelino, Division Head of Student Organization of UPLB and 

World Bank team posing for a photo. 

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#KayaYanBayan Feedback wall set up at Student Union Building in UPLB. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photos in Palawan State University (PSU) 

 

Students in PSU participating in #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall by uploading their photos in social media using our official 

hashtag: #KayaYanBayan. 

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Photos in Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) 

 

Mr. Dino Carlo Saplala giving his welcoming remarks during the #KayaYanBayan Feedback wall launch in Ateneo. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Souleymane Coulibaly presenting the East Asia Pacific Economic Update. 

 

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AdMU student participating during the open forum. 

 

 

Set up of #KayaYanBayan feedback wall launch in Ateneo de Manila University.