CALD 2015
CALD Youth Climate Change Summit: Translating Ideas into Action – Youth Leadership for Climate Change 4 – 8 February 2015 Manila-Bataan, Philippines
5th CALD Party Management Workshop: Winning Elections Towards Continuing Reforms 11 – 13 of March 2015 Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
8th CALD Communication Workshop: Political Communication, Elections, and Governance 13 – 16 March 2015 Metro Manila, Philippines
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Organized by CALD in cooperation with Rock Ed Philippines, the Office of the Philippine Presidential Adviser for Environmental Protection (OPAEP), and the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA), and with FNF support, the summit convened liberal youths from across Asia to discuss in a series of activities how the youth can play an active and vibrant role in environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate-change response.
Actually Phase II of the 5th CALD Political Party Management Workshop that began in 2014, the event was hosted by the National League for Democracy and participated in by some 60 NLD party members and campaign officials, as well as by representatives from the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA). The workshop aimed to capacitate NLD candidates and their campaign managers with the knowledge and skills to win elections, drawing from electoral theory and practice in the Asian context.
With a number of CALD member-parties contesting elections in 2015 and 2016, the workshop attracted around 30 participants from Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The participants shared their experiences and best practices in political communication, with such activities aimed at eventually helping produce viable and effective communication plans suited to their respective circumstances.