GUEVARA, Marita Concepcion Castro. “Marichi”
Marita Concepcion Castro Guevara, PhD is Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as Research Associate of the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) of which she was its former Director (SY 2013-14 to SY 2015-16). She is likewise on the faculty (as thesis adviser) of the Health Sciences Program, and has also taught under the School of Social Sciences, mostly with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
She straddles the humanities and the social sciences, given her AB in Literature in English (Ateneo de Manila University) and her MA and PhD in Sociology (ADMU and University of the Philippines-Diliman, respectively). A sociologist and gender and reproductive health advocate, she has conducted research (mostly under the aegis of the IPC) on urban poverty in informal settlements in Metro Manila, with focus on the problems as well as the resources/assets and agency of urban Filipino women, children and youth, and families.
Qualitative Research, Participatory Poverty Assessment, Urban Poverty and Informal Settlements, Women and Gender, Children and Youth, Popular Culture
- Senior Seminar I and II
- Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Gender, Art, and Society
Qualitative and participatory research methods in understanding poverty; Urban Poverty and Informal Settlements; Women and Gender; Children and Youth; Changing forms and patterns and challenges of contemporary Filipino Families; Popular Culture (particularly depictions of gender and poverty issues in Philippine cinema)
RESEARCH (2009 to present):
-- “Filipino Families Today: Changing Realities, Shifting Paradigms.” [Researcher/Writer]. With Mary Racelis, Angela Desiree M. Aguirre, Skilty C. Labastilla, and Leslie-Advincula-Lopez, and others. Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC). Target year of publication: 2021.
-- “Capacity to Organize Massive Public Educational Opportunities for Universities in Southeast Asia (COMPETEN SEA).” [Research Associate / Sociologist]. Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC). July 2016 to December 2019.
-- “Knowledge Needs, Acquisition, and Use among the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines.” [Co-Project Research Director]. With Eleanor R. Dionisio, Anna Marie A. Karaos, Gemma Rita R. Marin, and Isabella Louise A. Abustan. Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) and the John J. Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues (JJCICSI). March 2014 to May 2016.
-- "Incorporating the Social Dimension of Flood Risk Management: A Capacity-Building Program for DPWH Engineers and Related Staff." [Survey and Gender Specialist]. With Mary Racelis, Victoria Rialp, Ma. Cecilia M. Genzola, and Skilty C. Labastilla. July 2014 to March 2015. Commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
-- “Performance Evaluation of the Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Portfolio of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Philippines.” [Sociologist / Qualitative Research Specialist]. With Pinar Senlet, David Megill, Jose Rodriguez, Jose Rafael Hernandez, Marilou Costello, Nimfa Ogena, and Victor Agbayani. September 20 to December 20, 2012. Commissioned by the USAID.
-- “Implementation of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Selected Local Government Units in the Philippines.” [Consultant/Researcher/Writer]. August to October 2011. Commissioned by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Philippines).
-- “The Philippine Pilot Study of the Child Friendly Community Participatory Assessment Tools.” [Research Director and Lead Author]. With Mary Racelis and Ana Felisa G. Mayor. April to October 2009. An international study under the auspices of the Child Friendly Communities and Cities (CFC) Research Initiative.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
-- "Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission Listening Process Report 2017." [Technical Editor]. Cotobato City and Manila, Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission, February 2017. 224 pp.
-- "Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission Land Report 2017: Dealing with the Past and Land Dispossession in the Bangsamoro." [Technical Editor]. Cotobato City and Manila, Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission, February 2017. 76 pp.
-- "Report of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission [Main Report]". [Technical Editor]. Makati City: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission, 2016. 124 pp.
-- "USAID/Philippines: Performance Evaluation of the Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Portfolio." [Co-author]. With Pinar Senlet, David Megill, Jose Rodriguez, Jose Rafael Hernandez, Marilou Costello, Nimfa Ogena, and Victor Agbayani. Washington, D.C.: Global Health Technical Project II Bridge Project, December 2012. 130 pp.
-- "Making Philippine Cities Child Friendly: Voices of Children in Poor Communities." [Secondary Author]. Mary Racelis and Angela Desiree M. Aguirre [Lead Authors]. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Institute of Philippine Culture, 2005. 341 pp.
-- “Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Poverty and Poverty Reduction.” With Mary Racelis. Chapter in "Poverty, Growth, and the Role of Institutions in Developing Asia." Ernesto M. Pernia and Anil B. Deolalikar, eds. Published for the Asian Development Bank. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Chapter 3: 39-96.
-- "The Bases Talks Reader: Key Documents of the 1990-1991 Philippine-American Cooperation Talks." [Compiler and Annotator/Author]. Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1997. 6 X 9 inches. 497 pp.
Fellow, Social Weather Stations (SWS)
Member, Philippine Sociological Society (PSS)
Member, Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT [Anthropological Association of the Philippines)
Member, Reprodutive Health Alliance Network (RHAN) A
AWARD AND RECOGNITION
Recipient, The Reverend Henry Lee Irwin of the Society of Jesus Memorial Teacher Award for SY 2016-17
