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johnpiermont |
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Johnpierre is co-founder and currently National Council President of the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay, Inc. an association of men and boys thriving in exploitative working environments in the Philippines founded and based in Iloilo. The organization has been recognized as one the most outstanding youth organizations in the Country in 2003 for its Iloilo Chapter and 2008 for its Negros Chapter by the National Youth Commission and a two-time recipient of the Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants for its youth-led development initiatives.
In 2010, he expanded his work at the National level at the Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP), Inc. as community engagement specialist. At PHANSuP, he had organized 77 grassroots groups of most unheard communities of people who use drugs, male and female sex workers, street youth, gays and transgender, and youth across the country.
He developed three frameworks that are linked to the three-pronged objectives of his community development endeavors that blend community leadership, stewardship and entrepreneurship. (1) the “MEPA” ladder of empowerment (Meaningful Engagement of People living with and At-risk of HIV for community leadership, (2) the River of Life Tools (ROL) for community stewardship, and the YouthLEAP Framework (Yearn, Learn and Earn through Peer Entrepreneurship) for community entrepreneurship.
The MEPA seeks to assess community groups' needs and evolving capacities to engage themselves meaningfully with their duty bearers that strive to address the challenges of the GIPA Principle in which community groups are empowered in a ladderized approach for community engagement. The ROL seeks to promote accountability toward own and peer groups behavior change through a learner centered approach for behavior change and appreciative inquiry approach for behavior change facilitation. The YouthLEAP Framework champions youth-led Development and equip young people the entrepreneurial skills to meet four bottomlines, the 4 "Ps' of peer entrepreneurship: Principles, People, Profit and Planet.
He started his youth leadership career in the year 1997, a recipient of the UNLAD Kabataang Program of the Social Welfare Department in the year 1999 and a Feed the Hungry recipient of the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2002. The International Youth Foundation chose him as one of the YouthActionNet Global Fellow in 2005 for founding an organization of young male sex workers and because of his work, he was recipient of the 20 Young Leaders in Governance Fellow by Galing Pook Foundation and UNDEF. In 2010 was selected as one of the 10 Asia Society Fellows of the Phil21 Young Leaders Initiative.
He served as the National Focal Point for the Philippines for the Global Youth Coalition on HIV and AIDS in 2008 and Regional Focal Point for UNODC’s Asia and the Pacific Global Youth Network in 2005. He is an e-mentor and coach in two platforms, the Sprout e-Course of TakingITGlobal.com and the Constellation for AIDS Competence based in Thailand.
Currently, he provides technical support as Behavior Change Specialist for Most at Risk Young People and Most Marginalised HIV Key Community Groups for his human rights work with his organization and Local Governments on issues related to Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health. His core focus is on issues on human trafficking and exploitative labour and how to address the health and social consequences exploitation affect the lives and well-being of marginalised youth groups.
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