National
service
Training
Program ii
FAQs, Evolution, and Legal
Underpinnings
M.L.L.B. Tacbian | Faculty, Department of Development Communication, Benguet
State University
faqs
1. What is NSTP?
RA 9163 enabled the establishment of
NSTP for tertiary level students with
an aim to promote
civic consciousness among the youth
and
inculcate in them the spirit of
faqs
1. What is NSTP?
It is designed to develop the youth’s
physical,
moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social
well-
being and promote defense
preparedness and
ethics of service while undergoing
faqs
2. What are its three program
components?
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
(ROTC) –institutionalized under
Sections 38 and 39 of RA 7007
designed to provide military training
to tertiary level students to motivate,
train, organize and mobilize them for
faqs
2. What are its three program
components?
Literacy Training Service (LTS) –
designed to train students to become
teachers of literacy and numeracy
skills to school children, out of school
youth, and other segments of society
in need of their service.
faqs
2. What are its three program
components?
Civic Welfare Training Service
(CWTS) – composed of programs or
activities contributory to the general
welfare and the betterment of live for
the members of the community or the
enhancement of its facilities
faqs
3. After graduation, what will happen
to us?
Graduates of CWTS and LTC shall
belong to the
National Service Reserve Corps
(NSRC) and could be tapped by the
State for literacy and civic welfare
activities. Meanwhile, graduates of ROTC
Historical antecedents
Commonwealth Act No. 1 (National
Defense Act), 1935
• required male college students to
finish 4 semesters of military training
to be reserved cadets of the national
defense of the country
Historical antecedents
PD No. 1706 (National Service Law),
1980
• Commonwealth Act No. 1 was
amended on Aug 8, 1980
• Mandates compulsory national
service to all citizens of the country
• 3 component programs: CWTS, Law
Enforcement Service, and Military
Historical antecedents
Presidential Memorandum Order No. 1,
after the ouster
• implementation of the NSL (except
the provisions of the Military Service)
was suspended
• Basic Reserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) – 1986-87
Historical antecedents
Implementing Rules and Regulations of
RA 7077, 1991
• Basic ROTC was modified to
Expanded ROTC Program
• Modifications: 1 year – military
st
subjects; 2 year – any from: MTS,
nd
CWTS, and LES
Historical antecedents
March 18, 2001
• a dead body was found wrapped in
a carpet floating in the Pasig River
• the face was wrapped in cloth and
packing tape, hands and feet were
tied
• Mark Welson Chua, 19, UST
Engineering student
LEGAL UNDERPINNINGS
RA 9163 - ”An Act Establishing the
National Service Training Program (NSTP)
for tertiary level students, amending for
the purpose for RA 7007 and PD NO.
1706, and for other purposes”
• Signed into law: Jan 23, 2002
RA NO. 9163
Otherwise known as “National Service
Training Program Act of 2001”
- designed to develop and enhance and
consciousness and defense
preparedness among the Filipino Youth
by developing ethics of service,
nationalism, and patriotism
Constitutional basis
Article II, 1987 Philippine Constitution
1. Section 4
• “… the Government may call
upon the people to defend the
state and in the fulfillment
thereof, all citizens may be
required, under conditions
Constitutional basis
Article II, 1987 Philippine Constitution
2. Section 5
• General welfare (maintenance of
peace and order, protection of
life, liberty, and property) is
essential for the enjoyment of
people.
Constitutional basis
Article II, 1987 Philippine Constitution
3. Section 13
• Recognition of the youth’s role
in nation-building
Nstp-cwts vision
NSTP-CWTS aims to promote and
integrate values, education,
transformational leadership, and
sustainable social mobilization for youth
development, community-building,
national renewal, and global solidarity by:
Nstp-cwts vision
1. Providing relevant activities that will
contribute to the physical, intellectual,
spiritual, and social development of
students;
2. Inculcating in students the values of
leadership, patriotism, and social
responsibility; and
3. Training students to become project
Nstp-cwts vision
4. Conducting capability
enhancements for civic welfare
geared toward preparing the youth
the become results oriented social
entrepreneurs and volunteers.
Nstp-cwts mission
1. To train students to become
innovators of social change with a
culture of excellence and leader with
integrity, competence, and
commitment to render service to the
community.
2. To develop in the youth the values of
patriotism and national pride,
Nstp dimensions of dev’t
Safety Industry and
Entrepreneurs
hip
Educatio Care for
n health
Recreati Environment
on
Values
formation
safety
Involves disaster preparedness during
fire, earthquake or other calamity that
needs immediate response from any
trained civilian during emergency
situations (e.g. basic life saving seminar,
fire drill etc.)
education
Involves enhancement or institutional
support materials and facilities for the
community and school such as
providing materials containing basic
literacy skills for pre-schoolers, alternative
learning system for out-of-school youth,
extended services of skilled students.
recreation
Involves sports-fest, parlor games for
street children, painting that enrich
youth’s capacities to relate with one
another in the community.
Values formation
Refers to the development of youth to
be good leaders, responsible
individuals imbued with good moral
values and active agent of development in
a community.
Industry & entrep.
Includes programs and activities that
are vital to economic growth. The
students demonstrate technical skills in
communities like meat processing, silk
screen making, business start-up, etc.
Care for health
Aims to give knowledge on medical-
related fields and extended health
services needed in the community. It
includes medical services like first-aid
operation, vaccination, information
dissemination, basic life saving seminars,
health/nutrition technical assistance and
training of youth to be first aid assistants.
environment
Inculcates environmental awareness
and its contribution to health and
related fields. It involves management of
waste, environmental protection,
dissemination and application of
technologies supportive of community
needs and livelihood activities related to
environment and other related fields
questions
1. As a NTSP student (and a student of
the BS Dev Comm program), what do
you think is/are your role/s in the
community?
2. How can NSTP enhance one’s civic
consciousness and defense
preparedness?
