BoholAnalysis: About this site

About this site

Boholanalysis is a site that discusses issues about Bohol and its implications to wider development debates in the country, region, or the world. It is maintained by Michael Canares, a Boholano based in Tagbilaran City. He is a Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program fellow and a development worker from the Philippines. His current preoccupation is development research on issues as poverty, sustainable development, and local politics.

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Welcome to BoholAnalysis

Here, we discuss Bohol, not the way politicians would like to describe it, and certainly not the way tourism promoters would label the island.
Don't take me wrong.
This blog is not about the negative side of Bohol. It is a blog that talks about Bohol, critically, beyond the conventional labels. It is a blog about issues in Bohol and how a citizen like you, or me, views it, from a rather uninvolved and objective lens. It is a blog about Bohol without the hypocrisy, without the hype, absent the intended colors.

Oxford University Publishes Mr. Canares' work

UN University Publishes Mr. Canares' work

M Canares presents in UK Conference

Step Up Managing consultant Michael Canares attended the joint conference of the Development Studies Association and the European Association of Development Training Institutes last 19-22 September at York University in the United Kingdom. Mr. Canares presented a paper in the Gender and Development working group on his work on women’s access to economic opportunities.
The conference theme was “Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty” and was attended by more than 75o academics and practitioners. There were four plenary sessions, over 100 panels, and more than 400 papers presented. The conference sought to find new ways of doing things, new approaches in development work, no theories from which to learn new ways of doing.
Mr. Canares’ paper was entitled “Investing in the Local: Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming Approaches for Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Philippines”.

Miko Canares attends conference in Helsinki

Michael Canares, managing consultant of Step Up Consulting Services is one of the more than 50 academics invited to the Poverty and Behavioral Economics conference hosted by the United Nations University- World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) based in Helsinki, Finland. The conference was held at the Marina Congress Center last 1-2 September 2011.

The conference intended “to take stock of current knowledge, to draw out the major policy implications, and to chart promising areas for research” on poverty withe the perspective of development economics. Presenters were famous economics as Ravi Kanbur, Dean Karlan, and Sendhil Mullainathan and topics ranged from the economics of happiness, prospect theory, uncertainties and valuations to corruption and violence. UNU-WIDER

Mr. Canares is one of the very few young academics from the global south invited to the gathering. He has worked recently with UNU WIDER on two projects in the past – on entrepreneurship and conflict, and urbanisation and development. UNU-WIDER is ranked one of the top ten think tanks in the world.

Michael Canares completes training course at Brown University

Michael Canares was one of the 45 scholars invited to attend a 21-day intensive training on Development and Inequality in June 2011, and the only scholar from the Philippines to attend the institute. Another Filipino, Mr. Roderrick Galam was in the institute but is currently based in the UK pursuing his doctoral studies in Sociology. The fellowship was made possible with the generous support from Sovereign Bank, Banco Santander and Brown University. The scholars were trained at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, with prominent authors Patrick Heller, Richard Snyder, Daniel Smith, and Gianpaoulo Baiocchi as convenors. Speakers from the World Bank, Harvard University, School of Oriental and African Studies, and coming from different disciplines as economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, among others, lectured at the institute.

Miko Canares presents in Indonesia conference

Michael Canares was invited by the Indonesia Social Justice Network to attend the conference on Climate Change, Disaster Management and Social Justice Response” held at Jogjakarta Plaza Hotel in July 12-15, 2011. Mr. Canares was also one of the presenters in the panel session on Climate Change and Policy with his paper “The Sudden Shift: what prompts greater local government response to climate change challenge in the Philippines?”.

At the end of the conference, Mr. Canares headed the team to formulate the end-of-conference statement which was presented to Indonesian media. He sits at a panel together with Mary Zurbuchen, director for IFP Asia and Russia in the press conference and presented the “Unified Statement for Social Justice in and Era of Climate Change”.

Training in Czech Republic

Michael P. Canares of the College of Business and Accountancy, upon invitation by the Vienna University of Economics and Business, attended a training on Evaluation of Sustainability of Development Assistance and Projects in Prague last 25 September to 2 October 2010. The training was held in the Czech Republic in the capital city of Prague and in the historic town of Slavonice.

Mr. Canares was the only Filipino of the 28 participants who attended the training. The other participants come from Vietnam, India, China, Spain, Australia, the United Kingdom, USA, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and Turkey.

The opening and closing programs were done in Prague while the whole training activity was done at the building of the Institute for the Future at Slavonice. Workshop facilitators were renowned evaluation practitioners Wolfgang Meyer, Simon Bell, and Monical Lomena. In the class, Mr. Canares was the group animator of the one of the teams that proposed for the evaluation of a Mayan Reserve in Guatemala.

Conference in Northern Ireland

Michael Canares was invited to present his paper on climate change governance at the recent conference of the Development Studies Association of the UK. The conference was held at the University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Canares' paper was entitled "It's Just a Buzzword from Above: Climate Change Challenge and Local Governance Indifference in the Philippines". It was also in this conference that Mr. Canares was interviewed by Panos London, a media group based in the UK.

Articles by Michael Canares Published in International Books

Two papers written by Michael Canares is included in two books, one published in Switzerland, and another in Greece. "Combating Poverty : The NGO’s Role in Poverty Reduction and Community Development in the Philippines" is included in the book "Community Development: Local and Global Challenges" published by the Lucerne University (Switzerland) and appears as the first contribution among the three papers from Asia. The book is edited by Mariana Jakob.
Another paper entitled "The Seaweed Tragedy: How Local Livelihoods Can be Disastrous to the Environment" also appears as the last chapter in the book "Environmental Awareness and Management" published by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (Greece) and edited by M Theophanides and T Theophanides.

A Conference at Oxford University

"Going for Growth?" was the theme of the conference I attended at the Oxford University Examination Schools last September 11-13. The conference, attended by roughly 400 development practitioners and educators from around the globe was sponsored by the United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training.

My paper presentation was entitled "Ownership, Not Prescription: Outsider Driven Development in an Indigenous Community in Bohol, Philippines." The paper scrutinizes a project implemented by Soil and Water Conservation Foundation in the Eskaya community in Taytay (Duero), Biabas (Guindulman), Cantaub (Sierra Bullones), and Lundag (Pilar). For requests on the full copy of the paper, please send an email to mikocanares@boholanalysis.com.

Future of Forests Conference in Chiang Mai

I started my work with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations last week (October 14). As part of my induction process, I attended a conference on the Future of Forests in Asia and the Pacific: Outlook for 2020 held in Chiangmai, Thailand.
The event was attended by more than 250 people representing different sectors concerned with the future of forests and forestry in the region. The conference sought to identify the primary drivers of change in Asia Pacific that will impact on forests and people in the next ten years.

4th International Conference on Community Development

Mr. Canares was invited to present in the recent international conference on community development hosted by the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada last October 28-30.

Two paper by Mr. Canares were presented in the conference. One was on the Eskaya Tribe and other one was on the Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape. Both research papers were written in close partnership with staff from the Soil and Water Conservation Foundation.

Mr. Canares' participation was funded by the University of Quebec and the Commission on Higher Education.

UNU-WIDER Conference in Kolkata, India

KNH National Conference

Kindernothilfe (KNH), one of the largest Christian organization for children's aid in Europe and based in Germany organized a national forum on the self-help group approach and an orientation on the child-focused community development program for its current and potential partners in the Philippines. The conference was held last 12-16 September 2008 in Kabangkalan City, Negros Occidental. Mr. Canares presented a paper entitled "Child-Focused Community Development in the Philippines: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward" which summarizes the findings of two evaluation studies conducted in Ilog, Negros Occidental, and Davao City. Mr. Canares was hired by KNH as evaluation consultant.

Athens Conference

Aug 1- 5. I presented a paper entitled "The Seaweed Tragedy: A Case of How Rural Livelihoods can be Disastrous to the Environment" during the 2nd International Symposium on the Environment. The event, attended by development practitioners from around the globe, was hosted by the Athens Institute for Education and Research.

The paper I presented was about the seaweed livelihood at CPG Island and how the tension between poverty and the existence of opportunity has posed significant effects on the environment.

International Peace Research Conference

Lueven, Belgium - The Catholic University of Leuven hosted this year the International Peace Research Conference on July 15-19 with the theme "Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development". My paper entitled "Achieving 'Peace' Through Poverty Reduction: Evidence from the Philippines" was accepted for presentation in two sessions - the Development and Peace Working Group and the Poverty as Violence Panel. For a copy of the paper, please write an email to mikocanares@boholanalysis.com.

Community Development Conference in Switzerland

Sept 26-28 - The Third International Congress on Community Development was held in Lucerne, Switzerland. I was granted a scholarship by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation to present my paper entitled "Combating Poverty: The Role of NGOs in Poverty Reduction in Bohol, Philippines" in one of the workshops in the conference attended by roughly 400 development academics and practitioners from around the globe. For a copy of the paper, please send a request letter to mikocanares@boholanalysis.com.

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