guidelines on electoral tactical alliance building & monitoring
(Green Rating-Scorecard & Green Covenant) 
This is the working draft of the Guidelines on electoral tactical alliance & monitoring for MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) through a process called GREEN RATING-SCORECARD & GREEN COVENANT CAMPAIGN. For discussion and comments. This will be finalized in the 1st National Assembly proposed for April 22, 2021

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1. Concept

Until such time that MAKAKALIKASAN is in a position to field its  own candidates we always have the option to support members  that are running in local or perhaps even national positions whom the  Party can choose to support. We can also enter into a tactical coalition to support non-member candidates (regardless if running as an independent or representing a party or coalition).

Just the same it is incumbent upon the Party to guide the  voting public who among the local and national  candidates carries the GREEN AGENDA and  should be endorsed as such. This opportunity  to rate national candidates based on the  Party's 15-point GREEN AGENDA  also opens up an opportunity to invite  citizens groups to join the party and  together sign a covenant with those rated  high as "green national candidates" so we  can be in a better position to exact  accountability from these candidates,  especially if they do get elected in the next  few years of their term. On the part of the  candidate, this rating and covenant process  provides them a 3rd party endorsement  process that will prove beneficial in  positioning themselves among the natural  constituencies of the greens. 

2. Components 

2.1. Green Rating
The Party will formulate a  set of questions based on our 15-point  Green Governance Agenda and will invite all potential candidates to be nominated through the Green Peoples Primary Elections process of the Party to answer them and join our green  rating process. The rating will be done by a  group of Party members from local chapters nationwide (geographical  balance will be pursued) in partnership with  other sectoral leaders from these localities  whom the party will invite. Those ratings will  use a common rating tool to be designed  by the MAKAKALIKASAN Green Governance Policy Center. 

2.1. Green Covenant
The top 5 coming out of  the rating for any position will be identified as a result of the local and nationwide rating process. They will then be  invited to a process to sign a covenant with  the Party and all the other citizens  organizations who joined the rating process.  The covenant will include all specific political  positions that the candidate committed to  include in his/her platform agenda for  implementation during his/her term once  elected. The covenant signing process will  be done through a high-profile media event  designed to present these candidates as the  greenest of all the candidates. 

2.3. Endorsement and Joint Campaigning
The  greenest candidates  will be invited by the Party to enter into an  electoral alliance with us or us entering into alliance with them if they have a pre-existing one; whichever is the case. We will offer to  mobilize local party groups, where these local & national candidates are  running to actively campaign for these  greenest national candidates. Funding  complementation schemes will be offered  these candidates to benefit the local  campaign of the party leaders running  locally 

2.4. Implementation Stages 

Part 1 - Preparatory Stage. Development of  tools such as the green agenda  questionnaire and rating tool. Orientation of local rating bodies. Setting up  of local network of citizens groups willing to  join the Party in the rating process 

Part 2 - Public promotions and campaign  launch. Campaign launching event (media event)

Part 3 - Invitation to candidates to  join the rating. This will be done by responding to the  questionnaire and signing the agreement  with PKI to be subjected to the rating
 
Part 4 - Rating process. Responses to the  questionnaire will be posted on the Party website  and sent to the local rating bodies. Rating  sessions to be conducted and results  promoted widely to multiple-media (both  local and national). Local and a national forum will be  organize to announce the final consolidated  results 

Part 5 - Green Covenant negotiations. This will be  between the top 5 candidates and the Party  and the green rating coalition formed out of  all participating citizens groups. These  covenants should identify specific policy and  implementation agenda that all parties are  willing to collaborate together to implement  after the elections during the term of the  next elected officials. As the individual and  collective covenants with the greenest  national candidates are drawn up, a climax  high profile event with maximize multiple media exposure will be held where the Party  and the green rating coalition will present to  the public the LOCAL & NATIONAL GREEN CANDIDATES. 

Part 6 - Joint Electoral Alliance. Starting with the top rated  candidates, MAKAKALIKASAN will pursue individual joint  electoral alliance for joint complementary  campaigning targeting the last leg of the  campaign period in the local areas where  party members are running or concentrating on. MOA for the  electoral alliance to be readied. 
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Part 7 - Continuing Green Rating. After elections, the Party will  continue to monitor the performance of the  national candidates who top the Green  Rating based on the signed Green Covenant.  This monitoring will be done every six (6)  months starting June after the election for the rest of  the 3-year term. The Party will issue a  scorecard every 6 months to the public for the reach of the local  national politicians being  monitored.