AGHAM

AGHAM

Founded	2003
Founder	Raymundo Punongbayan
Type	Party list
Focus	Science and technology legislation
Location	Unit 424 G.A. Tower 1, EDSA-Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Area served	Philippines
Method	advocacy, partnership and social services
Key people	President Angelo B. Palmones
Website	agham.org.ph

Alyansa ng mga Grupong Haligi ng Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Mamamayan (Filipino, "Alliance of Groups Supporting Science and Technology for the People"), commonly referred to simply by its acronym AGHAM (Filipino, "Science"), is a national sectoral organization in the Philippines pushing for the participation of the science and technology community in the legislative process. It is currently running for a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives, under the party list system.

AGHAM was founded by Dr. Raymundo Punongbayan, former head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), after being frustrated by the lack of concrete advocacy for disaster preparedness and other science-related issues, both in the Philippine media and the Philippine government.

AGHAM's membership includes "Filipino Science and mathematics teachers, field and laboratory research technicians and laborers, extension agents, engineers, inventors, health professionals, and science media practitioners and otherwise ordinary Filipino citizens who strongly advocate a science and technology-explicit national development agenda."

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This organization should not be confused with an older organization of the same name (Agham) which is not affiliated with nor has any participation in this partylist. "Agham" or "Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng Agham at Teknolohiya Para sa Sambayanan" (Filipino, "Advocates of Science and Technology for the People") was founded in 1999 and has declared its support for another partylist Bayan Muna.