NSTP

• The National Service Training Program (NSTP) Law or RA 9163 was enacted in January 2002 to amend the Expanded ROTC
• The NSTP aims to enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism
• NSTP components:

  • Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC)
  • Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
  • Literacy Training Service (LTS)
• ROTC provides military training to motivate, train, organize, and mobilize individuals for national defense preparedness
• CWTS contributes to the general welfare and betterment of life for the community
• LTS trains students to teach literacy and numeracy skills to those in need
• Private higher education institutions with at least 350 student cadets may offer the ROTC component
• No other fees shall be collected for NSTP components except basic tuition fees
• NSTP-One Summer Program (NSTP-OSP) allows graduating students to comply with NSTP requirements
• The National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) is composed of graduates of CWTS and LTS, who may be tapped for literacy and civic welfare activities
• NSTP-CWTS dimensions of development:

  • Safety and Security
  • Education
  • Recreation
  • Values Formation and Moral Recovery
  • Industry and Entrepreneurship
  • Care for Health
  • Environment
• Community development involves a comprehensive process to manage change that involves citizens creating a shared vision for the future
• Community development values include the belief in participatory democracy, the right of people to strive for the environment they want, and the importance of purposeful interaction and dialogue within a community
• Community development distinguishes itself by focusing on the whole community, emphasizing public participation as self-help, using participatory democracy for decision-making, and initiating the process with a paid professional from outside
• Community development principles emphasize self-help, broad participation in decision-making, accurate information about the community, understanding and general agreement as the basis for change, and the right of all individuals to be heard in open discussion
• The community development process involves organizing, analyzing, communicating, planning, implementing, evaluating, celebrating, and sustaining, providing a framework for community work that can be adapted based on specific issues and resources
• A community needs assessment involves gauging key issues, opinions, attitudes, assumptions, and needs within a community, aiming to gather information, identify gaps, set priorities, allocate resources, and evaluate current programs
• Qualitative measures in a needs assessment can include small groups, focus groups, the Delphi Technique, the Nominal Group Technique, key informant interviews, and public hearings/community forums
• Quantitative measures in a needs assessment can involve surveys, telephone surveys, mailed surveys, distributed surveys, face-to-face surveys, secondary data like census information, and reports from similar assessments in other communities
• Definition of Resource: a valuable or useful means that helps to achieve desired ends, in forms like physical or natural, abstract or concrete, and can be assets
• Types of Resources:

  • Human (Skilled / Semi-skilled Individuals)
  • Financial (Money / Budget / Capital)
  • Material (Inventory / Physical)
  • Method (Procedures / Technology)
  • Machine (Equipment / Mechanism)
  • Market (Bazaar)
  • Information (Fact & Figures / Records)
  • Time
• Some Axioms about Resources:

  • Resources are always Limited
  • Resources are Capital / Assets
  • Resources are Vital Components for managerial / development activity
  • Resources are Capital Generating and Transformable objects
  • All Resources are not applicable in all circumstances
• Concept of Resource Mobilization (RM) is a major sociological theory emphasizing the ability to acquire resources and mobilize people towards accomplishing goals
• Objectives and Importance of Resource Management:

  • Efficient and effective deployment of resources
  • Detect waste and errors and minimize them
  • Maintain and guarantee the quality of resources
  • Optimize the cost and profit
  • Fund raising for community development
  • Continuation of the required resources
  • Provide effective public services
  • Improve quality and productivity
  • Minimize conflicts and unhealthy competitions
• Basis of Effective Resource Mobilization:

  • Effectiveness of output / outcome
  • Efficiency in input / handling
  • Economic deployment of available capital
  • Transparent accounting of earnings and disbursement
  • Who gets what how much from whom
• Resource Mobilisation Action Plan:

  • STEP 1: Organisational Situational Analysis
  • STEP 2: Resource Mobilisation Environment Research and Donor Mapping
  • STEP 3: Constructing your Statement of Funding Needs
  • STEP 4: Prospecting and Communicating with Potential Donors / Contributors
  • STEP 5: Monitoring and Evaluating your Resource Mobilisation Efforts
• Process of Effective Resource Mobilization:

  • Identification
  • Exploration
  • Acquisition
  • Taxation / Revenue Collection
  • Grant / Donations
  • Mining
  • Appraisal / Evaluation
  • Sustainability
  • Feasibility
• Process of Resource Mobilization:

  • Allocation: Who gets what and how much from whom
  • Utilization: Proper resources in proper locality / area
  • Controlling: Supervision, Auditing, Monitoring
  • Maintenance: Quality Controlling, Developing, Leveling, Retaining, Disposition, Store, Recycle, Selling / Auction, Separation
• Effective Resource Mobilization for an organization:

  • Strengthening and establishment of system and procedures
  • Resource auditing
  • Using 'bottom up' approach
  • Equity in sharing of resources
  • Implementing "Public Private Partnership" model
  • Devolution and or delegation of authority at local level
  • Regular monitoring and evaluation
• The law mandates all higher education institutions to implement the NSTP as part of their curriculum.
• It was created by virtue of Republic Act No. 9163 or the Citizen Armed Forces of the Philippines Reservist Law on February 28, 2002.
• The National Service Training Program (NSTP) is an educational program that aims to instill patriotism, nationalism, and love of country among students.