• Welcome to Paghahabi

    • Paghahabi is the Filipino term for weaving materials such as textile, mats, baskets. It also means the weaving or telling of stories.

    In essence, paghahabi reflects the core competency of the AIJC, ie communication. This competency transmits truth, creates understanding, builds community. It brings together the diversity of warp and woof and interlaces them into a single colorful fabric of concord and trust.

    Our e-newsletter Paghahabi tells AIJC's stories. It reflects our efforts to promote understanding amidst diversity through our various communication programs and projects and to build a network of AIJC partners and stakeholders whose stories are intertwined with ours.

    The AIJC is committed to weave a community committed to the common good and the best interest especially of marginalized sectors that need the comfort of a warm woven fabric.

Braid featured in International IDEA website

AIJC senior adviser and president emeritus Dr.  Florangel Rosario Braid shared her views as a “constitution builder” in an interview with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) that was posted on its website last February 29, 2012.

International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization that is based in Sweden and supports sustainable democracy worldwide by providing comparative knowledge, assisting in democratic reform and influencing policies and politics. read more

AIJC partners with PPI in community press awards

Some things in the local media scene are just getting better. And more exciting.

This was proven once again as members of the community press nationwide vied for the  2011 Civic Journalism Community Press Awards in  six categories for the weeklies and the dailies. Awarding ceremonies were held on April 24, 2012 at the Traders Hotel Manila.

Best Edited Community Newspaper awards went to the Mabuhay (Luzon-weekly) and  Sun.Star Cebu (Visayas-daily). read more

AIJC president conducts Timor Leste workshop

What competencies should a journalist have?

Answers surfaced as university lecturers and trainers from major journalism training institutions in Timor Leste discussed journalism curriculum planning on April 27-28 in a workshop held in Dili, Timor Leste.

The main resource person/facilitator was AIJC president Ramon R. Tuazon. Until recently, he was Consultant and Liaison Officer to the Philippines of UNESCO Office Jakarta.
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