September 24, 2010 – Step Up Consulting

Michael Canares, Managing Consultant of Step Up Consulting Services facilitated the national forum of the Self-Help Approach promoters in the Philippines in Legazpi City last September 6-10, 2010. The forum was funded by Kindernothilfe (Germany) and was participated in by 12 SHA promoters across the country.

Call for Research Interns

Step Up Consulting Services is in need of research interns who are willing to conduct field and desk research for at least 10 hours a week. The interns should be college students at their junior year and has taken at least 12 units of English subjects. For those interested, please send your CV and letter of intent to marilou.sale@steupconsultants.com. While internship at Step Up is unpaid, the learning experience is very enriching. After 100 hours of work, Step Up management will decide whether to retain the intern for a modest hourly pay. Send your documents now!

UN University publishes Mr. Canares’ work

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research based in Finland published recently the work of Step Up Managing Consultant as working paper and available for download at the UNU-WIDER site (http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2010/en_GB/wp2010-61/). The study entitled "The Excluded Poor: How Targeting has left out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines" talked about two cities - Butuan in Mindanao, and Tagbilaran in Bohol.

Mr. Canares’ work published by Oxford University Press

The Oxford University Press will release in April 2012 a book entitled Urbanisation and Development in Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives (http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Urban/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780198078531) edited by Ravi Kanbur, Jo Beall, and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis. Step Up Managing Consultant Michael Canares' work appears as Chapter 14 in the edited volume. For more information on the book please visit the link provided.

Book Project on Early Childhood Education Soon to be Published

Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation - Integrated Development Center of Cebu City, commissioned Step Up Consulting Services to write a process documentation of its Early Childhood Education project in Agusan del Sur late last year. The outcome of the research project is a book entitled "Through the Eyes of a Child: Lessons from an Early Childhood Education Program in Agusan". The said book is currently being printed and will soon be distributed to JPIC partners in the Philippines.