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NSTP SUMMARY 
Thursday, September 22, 2022  7:13 PM 

LESSON 1 
 
NSTP LAW (RA 9163) 
• RA 7077 – ROTC 
• PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 1706 
SEC 1 – act shall be known as NSTP act of 2001 
SEC 2 – DECLARATION OF POLICY 
• It is hereby affirmed that the prime duty of the government is to serve • Duty ng govt protektahan at
and protect its citizens. In turn it shall be the responsibility of the citizens serve ang mga mamamayan kaya
to defend the security of the state & in fulfillment thereof, the ang responsibilidad naman ng
government may require each civilian to render personal military or civil mga mamamayan ay ipagtanggol
service.  ang seguridad ng state, kaya
  maaring irequire ang mga
YOUTH's role in nation building  mamayan na maglingkod sa
• State shall promote civil consciousness among the youth and shall militar o sa civil. 
develop their physical, moral, spiritual intellect and social well being   
•  It shall instill to the youth patriotism, nationalism and advance their
involvement in public and civic affairs 
NSTP 
• Aimed to enhance civic consciousness and defense prepared in the youth
by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing
training in any of its component designed to enhance the youth's active
contribution to general welfare 
• All freshmen from SY 2002-2003 in any baccalaureate and 2 yr techvoc or
associate course 
•  2 sems; 54 – 90 hrs per sem 
• 3 units per sem 
COMPONENTS 3: 
ROTC (RESERVED OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS) 
• Institutionalized under sec 38 and 39 of RA 7077 
• Designed to provide training to motivate, train, organized and mobilize
them for national defense. 
LTS (LITERARY TRAINING SERVICE) 
• Designed to teach literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out of
school youth and other segments of society in need of their service. 
CWTS (CIVIC WELFARE TRAINING SERVICE) 
• Activities contributory to the general welfare and the betterment of life
for the members of the community or the enhancement of its facilities
devoted to improving health, education, environment, entrepreneurship,
safety, recreation and moral of citizenry. 
• SERVICE – dimensions 
1. Safety and security 
• Basic life-saving seminars, fire/earth quake drill 
• Disaster preparedness during calamities that need immediate response
from any trained civilians during emergency 
2. Education  
• Enhancement of institutional material and facilities for the community
and school: 
• ALS 
• Materials containing basic literary  
• Math and Science tutorials 
3. Recreation 
• Sports fest 
• Parlor games 
• Painting 
4. Values formation and moral recovery 
• Development of youth to be good leaders 
• Responsible individuals imbued with good moral values 
• Active agent of the development of the country 
5. Industry and Entrepreneurship 
• Activities that are vital for economic growth 
• Technical skills; 
• Meat processing 
• Silkscreen making 
• Establish small business 
6. Care for health 
• Medical services 
• 1st aid operations 
• Vaccination 
• Info dissemination 
• Basic-life saving seminar 
• Health and nutrition technical assistance 
7. Environment 
• Instill environmental awareness  
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• Management of waste 
• Environmental protection 
• Dissemination and application of technologies supportive of community
needs 
SUC's 
• Must offer ROTC and 1 other component 
• PMA, PMMA, PNPA, and others are exempted from NSTP 
Private and tech-voc 
• 350 cadets – ROTC = establish/maintain DMST (Dept. Of military science
and tactics) 
 
LESSON 2 
 
CITIZENSHIP TRAINING 
• Develops our characters to become more mindful of our responsibilities,
rights and roles in society 
 
PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION 
Supreme law 
• Completed by the CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISION on 10.12.1986 
• Signed and made official on 2.2.1987 by a nationwide vote 
 
1987 CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE : 
'We the sovereign Filipino People, implore the aid of the almighty God, in order
to build a nation that is just and humane and establish a government that shall
embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and
develop our patrimony, secure to ourselves and our prosperity the blessings of
independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth,
justice, freedom, love, equality and peace, do ordain and promulgate this
constitution.' 
 
BILL OF RIGHTS 
1. Freedom  
2. Privacy 
3. Access to information 
4. Equality 
5. Education 
6. Safe and humane 
7. Working conditions 
  
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES of a FILIPINO citizen  
SEC 1 – 4 
1. Be loyal and nationalistic 
2. Be dutiful 
3. Be humane 
4. Be active 
 
FLAG HERALDIC CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES RA 8491 1998 
• Act prescribing the code of the national FLAG, ANTHEM, MOTTO, COAT
OF ARMS and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines. 
SEC 5 – FLAG LOCATIONS 
SEC 10 – FLAG COLORS POSITIONING 
SEC 14 – FLAG DISPOSAL 
SEC 16 – FLAG DISPLAY 
SEC 17 – USE OF FLAG IN CEREMONY 
SEC 25 – PANUNUMPA SA WATAWAT 
SEC 26 – FLAG EVEN MAY 28 TO JUNE 12 
SEC 34 – FLAG PROHIBITIONS 
SEC 35 – LUPANG HINIRANG 
SEC 36 – LANGUAGE OF LUPANG HINIRANG 
SEC 37 – ALWAYS IN ACCORDANCE TO JULIAN FELIPE COMPOSITION 
SEC 38 – PUBLIC ACTION WHEN ANTHEM IS PLAYED + PROHIBITIONS 
SEC 40 – NATIONAL MOTTO 
• Madiyos, makatao, makakalikasan at makabansa 
SEC  50 – FINES AND PENALTIES  
 
VOLUNTEER ACT OF 2007 (RA 9418) 
• Act institutionalizing rural development strengthening volunteerism 
SEC 1  
•  Legislation that recognizes volunteerism or 'bayanihan' 
• Allows government partnership to achieve desired transformation
development through volunteerism 
• Recognizes different roles in different sectors 
• Encourages academic institutions to continuously teach and practice
volunteerism 
3 MAIN OBJECTIVES RA 9418 
1. Aims to provide the policy framework that shall underscore the
fundamental principles necessary to harmonize broad and diverse efforts
of the voluntary sector. 
2. Aims to provide a conducive and enabling environment for the
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setting mechanisms to protect their rights and privileges and give due
recognition to highlight their roles and contribution to society 
3. Provide an effective institutional mechanism to strengthen the role of
PNVSCA – PHILIPPINE NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE COORDINATING
AGENCY to perform its mandates and oversee the implementation of this
Act. 
DEFINITION 
a.  VOLUNTEERISM 
• Activities done to achieve public common good without incentives
(money) as a motivating factor. 
b. VOLUNTEERS 
• Individuals who contribute to social development cause 
• Believes that their activity is mutually meaningful and beneficial to public
interest and themselves. 
c. VOLUNTEER SERVICE ORGANIZATION 
• Local/ foreign group 
• Recruits, trains and supports volunteer workers for the attainment of
common good. 
d. VOLUNTARY SECTOR 
• Sectors of PH society  
• Organizes themselves into volunteers that take advocacy and action
primarily for local and national development as well as international
cooperation and understanding 
 
LESSON 3 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
 FOREST 
• Latin words 'FORIS' -outdoors and 'FORESTIS' - unenclosed open grounds 
• Community dominated by dense extensive tree cover 
DENR MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 05-2005 
• Land with are more than 0.5 hectare 
• Tree crown cover more tan 10% 
HELMS, 1998 
• Ecosystem w/ dense and extensive tree cover that varies by species
composition, structure, age class, associated processes and which
commonly includes meadows, streams, fish and wildlife. 
 
FOREST PROTECTION 
• Part of SILVICULTURE 
• Safeguarding, protecting or caring of the forest resources from various
injurious agencies, forces or practices 
SILVICULTURE 
• Art and science of tending and caring for forest 
AFFORESTATION 
• Planting tree in areas where there were none before 
REFORESTATION 
• Establishing a forest on previously cleared lands 
CLIMATE CHANGE 
•  Increase in average temperature of earth's atmosphere brought by the
global warming 
ENDEMIC 
• Native or confined naturally on a particular usually restricted area or
region 
• Biologically a relic of once wide-distribution 
EXOTIC SPECIES 
• Plants introduced from a foreign 
• Plants grown within outside of its natural range 
TREE 
• Woody plant having a well-defined stem 
• Definitely formed crown 
• Height of at least 10 feet 
VEGETATION 
• All pant life in a region or period 
WATERSHED 
• Entire area drained by a river and its tributaries 
• All runoff being conveyed to the same outlet 
 
FOREST PROTECTION, CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT 
• Holistic management system of natural resources that occur on land in
association with flora/fauna (plants and animals) and other forest
components 
• Providing sustainable development for human benefit 
 
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) 
STATE OF THE WORLD FORESTS 2020 
• 2015-2020 
-10M hectares, deforestation rate per year 
• Since 1990 
-over 80M hectares decreased in primary forests worldwide 
PHILIPPINE FOREST COVER 
-declining trend 

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IMPACTS OF FOREST LOSS 
• Climate change 
• Increased greenhouse gases 
• Soil erosion and landslide 
• Loss of habitat & wildlife extinction 
• Flash floods 
• Reduced land productivity – food scarcity 
 
ROLES OF FOREST IN 8 MDGS 
1. ERADICATE EXTREME HUNGER AND POVERTY 
• Forest maintain land productivity and the provisions of water resources
to agricultural systems thus contributing to food production and security. 
• Provide wood and non-wood forests products, income and employment
to millions of people 
7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY 
• Protect biological diversity 
• Maintain and provide clean and reliable water resources 
• Conserve soils, protect against flood, enable carbon sequestrations to
protect the atmosphere and coastal and marine resources. 
 
ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF FORESTS 
1. SOURCES OF IMPORTANT MEDICINES 
2. FIGHTS POLLUTION 
3. HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE 
4. PREVENT FLOOD AND LOCAL CLIMATE ALTERATION 
5. PROTECT WATERSHED AREAS 
6. PROTECT AND CONSERVE SOIL 
 
POLICY THRUST 
1. PHILIPPINE CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1999 RA 8479 
2. PHILIPPINE CLEAN WATER ACT OF 2004 9275 
3. ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT RA 9003 
4. NATIONAL INTEGRATED PROTECTED AREAS SYSTEM ACT 1992 RA 7586 
5. WILDLIFE RESOURCED CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION ACT RA 9147 
• DAO 2017 –11 (national list of threatened PH plants) 
• DAO 2019 –9 (national list of threatened PH fauna (animals)) 
6. SMALL SCALE MINING ACT 1991 RA 7076 
 
ROLES OF YOUTH  
• AGED 15-30 (RA 8044) 
• Large part of population 
• Backbone of nation 
• Lives longer w/ environmental consequences than elders 
• Can play an active role in protecting and improving the environment 
 
SOME ENVIRONMENTAL DATES 
MARCH 3 – WORLD WILDLIFE DAY 
MARCH 22 – WORLD WATER DAY 
APRIL 22 – EARTH DAY 
JUNE – ENVIRONMENTAL MONTH 
JUNE 22 – WORLD RAINFOREST DAY  
OCTOBER 4 – WORLD ANIMAL DAY 
OCTOBER 16 – WORLD FOOD DAY 
 
NURSERY ESTABLISHMENT 
FOREST NURSERY 
• Young forest tress and other plants are grown here for planting 
THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED 
1. Seed and water supply 
2. Size and ownership of area 
3. Location 
4. Accessibility 
5. Topography 
6. Ground cover 
7. Soil condition 
 
PROPER DISPOSAL OF WASTE 
WASTE MANAGEMENT  
• Manage waste from inception to final disposal 
• Collection, transport, treatment and waste disposal 
BENEFITS 
• RECYCLABLE MATERIALS – CASH  
• REDUCES PESTS INFESTATION 
• REDUCES OVERALL HEALTH RISKS 
• REDUCES LANDFILL SIZE 
• HELPS CONSERVE AND PROTECT ENVIRONMENT 
 
POLICY THRUST INVOLVING YOUTH 
NSTP RA 9163 
• SEC 3 

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• CWTS 
YOUTH national building act RA 8044 
• SEC 2 
• Encouragement of the youth involvement in character building and
development activities for civic-efficiency, stewardship of natural
resources, agricultural and industrial productivity, and an understanding
of world economic commitments on tariffs, trades and participation in
structures for policy-making and program implementation to reduce the
incidence of poverty and accelerate socio-economic development 
 
EXECUTIVE ORDER 23 S, 2011 – NATIONAL GREENING PROGRAM 
• Sec 3.1.3 
• All students & government employees – plant minimum of 10 seedling
per year in areas determined by CONVERGENCE INITIATIVE 
 

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