The University of the Philippines School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP SURP) invites all urban planners, researchers, academics, and practitioners to submit abstracts for the 5th International Conference in Urban and Regional Planning and the 18th PASCAL International Conference on Learning Cities. The conference’s theme is “Sustainable Development Futures: From Knowledge to Practice” to be held on 12-13 November 2024.

Conference sub-themes:

• Multidimensional context of Social Behavioral Change and Communication
• Regional complementarity and competitiveness
• Digital transformation for innovation in planning
• Sustainable living and climate change
• Gender and development
• Lifelong and lifeward learning

Key Dates to Remember

• Call for Extended Abstracts – 30 May 2024
• Deadline for Submission of Abstracts – 30 June 2024
• Notice of Acceptance of Abstracts – 22 July 2024
• Deadline for Submission of Full Papers – 31 August 2024
• Notification of peer-reviewed results of full papers – 30 September 2024
• Submission of Revised Full Papers – 22 October 2024
• Issuance of the Final Conference Program – 30 October 2024
• Conference Date – 12-13 November 2024

For guidelines and submission, visit tinyurl.com/tprhmh4a

For more information, please visit surporp.upd@up.edu.ph

The Philippine Economic Society will hold its 62nd Annual Meeting and Conference with the theme, “Traversing Innovative Pathways for Economic Resilience, Inclusion, and Localization in the Philippines” on 7-8 November 2024 at the Novotel Manila Araneta City, Quezon City.

As the Philippines embarks in its economic journey towards attaining upper middle-income class status, it faces a myriad of challenges, ranging from health and education inequalities, to persistent poverty and governance deficits, exacerbated by geographic disparities. The urgent need to catalyze transformative reforms, particularly in the aftermath of debt-driven pandemic recovery efforts and economic contractions, is paramount. 

Sustainable growth hinges on transformative reforms spanning education, health, food security, social protection, and infrastructure, augmented by localization and digitalization initiatives. Embracing a bundled approach to innovations and aligning them with industrial policies for sectoral development can help mitigate tradeoffs and facilitate collective progress.

The theme “Traversing Innovative Pathways for Economic Resilience, Inclusion, and Localization in the Philippines” mirrors the nation’s aspirations and forward momentum. It seeks to explore transformative strategies aimed at propelling the nation towards sustainable development, prosperity, and upper-middle-income status. Local economic development is a critical strategy  to enhance innovative solutions to address economic challenges and promote resilience, inclusion, and localization. With increased devolution of powers and resources, LGUs have the autonomy to implement tailored strategies that cater to local needs, thereby driving inclusive growth and fostering economic resilience.

The conference will feature keynote presentations, panel discussions, and dialogues, providing a platform for stakeholders to exchange insights, share best practices, and co-create innovative solutions. Sessions will delve into various topics, including empowering local governance, promoting innovative PPPs with LGUs, enhancing infrastructure and capital investments, implementing structural changes, transforming key systems, leveraging digitalization, and developing sectoral industrial policies.

The PES invites individual papers and session proposals on all theoretical, empirical, and policy dimensions of the following sub-topics:

• Agriculture, food security, and rural development 
• Business cycle and productivity analysis
• Competition and innovation frameworks and incentives
• Creative economy
• Digital economies
• Econometric models and applications
• Economics of gender
• Economics and other social sciences
• Economics of natural disasters
• Education, health, and human capital formation
• Energy economics
• Industry studies: public and transportation utilities
• Institutional economics, law and order, liability rules
• Labor economics
• Long-term planning, modeling, and economic forecasting
• Natural resources, environment, and sustainable economic development
• Poverty alleviation and social protection
• Public finance, monetary and financial economics
• Teaching of economics
• Trade and economic integration

Note: If you have a paper that does not clearly fit in any of these subtopics, you are still welcome to submit.

Submission of Proposals

All breakout sessions of the 62nd PES Annual Meeting and Conference will be held on-site at the Novotel Manila Araneta City. Individuals or institutions interested in organizing breakout sessions must prepare proposals for a 1.5-hour session. Meanwhile, individual paper presenters will be grouped together into breakout sessions to be organized by the PES.

Individual paper submissions must include (1) a two-page executive summary of the paper containing the purpose of the research, method of data gathering and analysis, and overview of findings; and (2) a 150-word maximum abstract of the research paper.

Session organizers must submit a session proposal in one Word document file, which includes (1) the session title; (2) a 150-word maximum session abstract; (3) titles and abstracts of each paper presentation; and (4) the list of session participants (e.g., moderator, presenters, discussants), including their names, institutional affiliations, positions, and email addresses. You may download the session proposal template by clicking here.

The deadline for submission is on 31 July 2024. Proposals must be submitted through the submission form.

Review and Acceptance of Proposals

All abstracts and session proposals shall be reviewed by the Conference Scientific Committee. PES shall issue notices of acceptance by 30 August 2024. Authors of accepted abstracts may also submit their full papers should they wish to be considered for possible publication in The Philippine Review of Economics journal.

Dates to Remember

* Only those who confirmed their participation and paid their registration fee will be included in the program.
** Submission of full paper is optional if the presenters wish to be considered for possible publication in The Philippine Review of Economics journal.

For more information, visit economicsph.org/pes62

The Philippine Society for Public Administration (PSPA) will hold its the 2024 PSPA International Conference with the theme, “Exploring New Governance: Approaches for Sustainability and Administrative Resilience” on 5-7 December 2024 in Bacolod City, Philippines.

Taking off from the recently concluded 23rd meeting of the UN Committee of Experts of Public Administration (UN CEPA) and the glaring conclusion that we are lagging behind in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, it is time to re-evaluate our current status and re-align our vision towards aiming a sustainable, resilient, and robust form of governance.

Conference Highlights and Themes

From various experts in various fields, delegates can foster their knowledge of sustainable development and learn new governance insights toward a resilient and robust administration. There will be insightful keynote speeches by leading experts in the field, engaging parallel sessions on different aspects of governance, multiple opportunities for networking and collaboration with international and local peers, and showcases of the culture of Bacolod City.

Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to:

• Principles of effective governance for sustainable development
• Institutions, climate action and environment
• Digital government
• Public sector workforce
• Public financial management
• New governance insights to advance the SDGs and eradicate
• poverty
• Institution-building in fragile and conflict-affected areas

Submission Guidelines

Paper Presenters are requested to adhere to the following guidelines:

• The paper must be relevant to the theme and/or sub-themes of the conference;
• The paper must be written and presented in English;
• A 300-word abstract together with the biographical sketch of not more than 100 words of the paper presenter/s must be submitted on or before the deadline.
• Submissions should include the following:

  • author(s) name, title, institutional affiliation, and address;
  • contact information (email and phone);
  • paper title and conference sub-theme;
  • abstract including references;

• All submissions shall undergo a peer-review process.
• The authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified by the organizing committee via email. Once notified, paper presenters are requested to submit the full paper and PowerPoint presentation on or before the set deadline. There should be a cover page with the following information: title of the paper, theme/sub-theme, institution or agency, country, and contact details. Further, full papers should be between 6,000 to 8,000 words following the APA 7th edition citation style.
• Presenters are requested to speak for fifteen (15) minutes to be followed by a 5-minute open forum for each presentation.
• Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
• All submissions should be directed to the PSPA organizing committee via email at pspaconference2024@gmail.com with subject: [PSPA2024Conference] Paper Submission – [Title] – [Author]

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 August 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2024
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 30 September 2024
Conference Dates: 5-7 December 2024

The conference will be fully face-to-face. The organizers will ensure that all health protocols shall be properly observed.

Registration Fees

PSPA Member/Student Discount Php 5,400.00
Early-bird Registration (until Sept 30, 2024) Php 5,400.00
Regular Registration Php 6,000.00