The Board of the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines has approved the hosting of a conference on the theme "Localizing the Millennium Development Goals Through Teaching and Local Governance," in March.

The proposal came from the History and Political Science Department of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Oriental Negros and the decision was made during a meeting of the ASPAP Board at the National College of Public Administration and Government at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, recently.

The conference will be attended by mayors, vice mayors, municipal planning and development officers from different regions, and faculty members of schools with public administration programs.

It will be funded by ASPAP and the United Nations Development Program.

Meanwhile, the Board has also endorsed the module on teaching MDGs developed by the Silliman History and Political Science Department as a working draft leading towards a full module to be presented at the conference, and to be published in June.

Upon publication, the module will be used as the standard teaching guide to integrate the MDGs in all schools with public administration subjects and courses.

Representing Silliman at the meeting were Professors Joseph Raymond, chairperson of the History and Political Science Department, and Carlos Magtolis Jr., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.*MG

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