Proposed Sangguniang Kabataan Activities

Proposed SK Activities
(Based on Identified Youth Issues and Concerns - MTYDP)

GREEN BRIGADE
• Organize youth groups for environmental awareness and conservation/ protection
• Implement programs and activities for environmental conservation/ protectionT

LIVELIHOOD
• Provide computer literacy training for residents and community members
• Conduct job application seminars, workshops, tours (job fairs)
• Conduct awareness campaigns on workers’ rights through symposia and other information
dissemination activities
• Organize youth cooperatives
• Provide income-generating projects, especially those focused on agriculture

CAPABILITY-BUILDING
• Conduct capability-building activities for SK officers and KK members

ANTI-DRUG ABUSE CAMPAIGN

• Conduct forums that address drug abuse

HEALTH SERVICES AND ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PROGRAM

• Mobilize SK funds for reproductive health/ basic health programs for the youth
• Promote abstinence and safe sex among the youth
• Enable access to family planning methods and contraceptives among the youth
• Implement tighter measures to prohibit tobacco, alcohol, illegal substance use among youth
• Pull out cigarette stalls from school canteens and school premises (in coordination with LGUs)
• Strictly implement the no-smoking policy in public places, especially near schools and other
areas frequented by young people
• Provide more opportunities for recreation and personal development
• Conduct orientations, training seminars/ workshops, and forums that address the identified issues
• Provide community-based peer-counseling services regarding the identified issues, especially for
youth at risk

EDUCATION SERVICES AND MORAL RECOVERY

• Create and implement educational programs that are student-led, teacher-facilitated
• Implement a functional literacy program

• Conduct advocacy campaign on human rights education

• Conduct a public advocacy campaign emphasizing the cost of ignorance
• Promote entertaining and educational activities such as: essay contest to invite young people to
express in their own words what they value
• Organize extension services – conduct seminars and workshops that provide non-formal
education (e.g. peer counseling, home visitation programs)
• Conduct recollections, retreats, and family workshops that strengthen values within and among
families

DISASTER COORDINATION AND CALAMITY MANAGEMENT

• Organize youth volunteers
• Recognize/ award volunteer youth organizations

SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

• Hold/ organize sports activities

COMMUNITY IMMERSION
• Organize community immersion activities to promote youth development

INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
• Implement infrastructure projects vital for youth development

LEGISLATIVE WORK AND INVOLVEMENT

• Obtain pertinent legislations affecting the Local Government and the youth
• Formulate proposed legislations, resolutions and the like
• Advocate for and institutionalize youth rights in schools
• Award Outstanding SKs
• Publish youth-related materials to inspire and motivate young people
• Strengthen existing programs that promote youth participation
• Organize an evaluation committee to recognize the achievements of young individuals and
groups
• Coordinate the activities of out-of-school and in-school youths within communities through
schools, churches, and other organizations

YOUNG PINOYS ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAMP

This seminar-workshop focused on harnessing social entrepreneurship as a means for youth
organization’s sustainability while promoting their various advocacies and helping in community
development. It recognizes that the youth are rich in innovative, entrepreneurial and socially
relevant ideas that can be implemented to mobilize resources for their organizations and partner
communities.

The project aims to address organizational sustainability that can be fostered in different ways –
including strengthening organization’s governance, increasing efficiency of financial management,
resource mobilization, and social entrepreneurship.
Possible projects and activities for sangguniang kabataan?
tree planting, garbage segregation campaign, establishment of recycling centers, composting
program, training OSY's on profitable small businesses, establishing a cooperative for youth-
oriented products and services(internet and computer rentals, bookshop, school supplies),
seminars and training on: leadership, money management, career orientation and planning, life
skills, conflict management, children's rights, strengthening the BCPC, anti-drug abuse education
campaign, establishing anti-drug abuse helpline, counseling for youth-at-risk, tutorial programs
for in-school and out-of school youths, scholarship program for vocational courses, improvement
of school materials(e.g. library, computers), health campaign, developing peer
counselors/facilitators for adolescent reproductive health, creation and distribution of IEC
materials health, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaign, funding for relief operations,
psychosocial services for children and youth during disasters, disaster preparedness training for
children and young people, support for local sports events, situation analysis, research on the state
of children and youth in the community, improvement of water and sanitation facilities in schools
such as sources of drinking water and working toilets, creating/improving community playground,
Campaigning for ordinances that will benefit children and young people, educating children and
youth on laws that concern them