OBJECTIVES

• Understand the salient points and provisions of R.A. 9163

Learn the foundations in the conceptualization and implementation of the National Service
Training Program and Civic Welfare Service.
Distinguish between CWTS, ROTC, LTS in terms of contents and objectives.

National Service Training Program

•NSTP is a training program for students enrolled in Tertiary as well vocational or technical
educational institutions mandated by the state through RA 9163.

REPUBLIC ACT 9163

● Development
● Evolve
● History
● Change
● Improve

Commonwealth Act No. 1

•National Defense Act
•December 21, 1935
•First legal basis for TRAINING NATIONAL DEFENSE\ ROTC

Presidential Decree 1706

•National Service Law
•August 8, 1980
•Specific measure toward ALTERNATIVE SERVICES
•Obligatory national service for ALL FILIPINO citizens to consist of civic welfare service, law
enforcement service and military service

Batas Pambansa Bilang 232

•Education Act of 1982
•It is the duty of STUDENTS to PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY in civic affairs and be involved in the
promotion of the general welfare particularly in the social, economic and cultural development of
the community.

Republic Act 7077

• AFP Reservist Act of 1991
•Provides mandatory military training for all students enrolled in college or universities and
similar learning
institutions.
•Specifies the need for reservist to render civic auxiliary service or military auxiliary service

IRR Republic Act 7077

•First curriculum year
-basic military subjects
•Second curriculum year
-Any of the following components:
• Military Training Service (MTS)
• Civic Welfare Service (CWS)
• Law Enforcement Service (LES)

FOUNDATIONS OF LORMA NSTP

Socio-Political/Legal Bases
• 1987 Constitution
• Republic Act 9163

Institution Basis
• Vision
• Mission

1987 Philippine Constitution

• Article Il Section 4
The prime duty of the Government is to serve
and protect the people.
The Government may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof, all
citizens may be required, under conditions provided by law, to render personal, military or Civil
Service

1987 Philippine Constitution

• Article Il Section 13
The state recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation building and shall promote their
physical, moral, spiritual and intellectual well-being. It shall inculcate in the
YOUTH PATRIOTISM and NATIONALISM and encourage their INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLIC &
CIVIC AFFAIRS.

Republic Act 9163

•National Service Training Program Act of 2001
The program aims to ENHANCE CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS and defense preparedness in the
youth by developing the ETHIC OF SERVICE and patriotism while undergoing training in any of
its three (3) program components.

IRR of Republic Act 9163

Sec. 1. Guiding Principle
"While it is the prime duty of the government to serve and protect its citizens, in turn shall be the
responsibility of all citizens to defend the security of the State, and the fulfillment thereof, the
government may require each citizen to render personal military or civil service."

IRR of Republic Act 9163

Sec. 2a. Role of the Youth
"In recognition of the vital role of the youth in nation building, the State shall promote civic
consciousness among them and develop their physical, moral, spiritual Intellectual, and social
well-being. It shall inculcate the ideals of patriotism, nationalism, and advance their involvement
in public and civic affairs."

IRR of Republic Act 9163

Sec. 20. Role of the Youth
"As the most valuable resource of the nation, they shall be motivated, trained, organized and
involved military, literacy, civic welfare programs and other similar endeavors in the service of
the nation."

PROGRAM
COMPONENTS
• Refers to the service components of NSTP

•ROTC
• Literacy Training Program
• Civic Welfare Training Service

Reserve Officers' Training Corps

Designed to provide military training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train, organize
and mobilize them for national defense preparedness

Literacy Training Service

Designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy skills schools children,
OSY, and other segments of society in need of their service

Civic Welfare Training Program

Programs or activities contributory to the general welfare and the betterment of life

BODY
o A corporeal substance which is alive and
grows
o Experiences sensations-feels pleasure & pain
o A means of communication between the
outside world and the mind
o Through it the outside world acts on the mind
o Through the body, the mind adjusts to the
outside world
SOUL
oSpiritual substance
oThe principle of spiritual acts
oThe source of intellectual
abstraction
oThe source of self-reflection
oThe origin of free national volitions

SOUL
INTELLECT
oThe cognitive power of the mind
oThe power by which human
knowledge is acquired
oJunction of the intellect is the
intellection thought which consists of
three mental processes; the
formation of ideas, judgment and
reasoning

WILL
• The tendency to desire, to seek, and
to enjoy that which is apprehended
by the intellect as good
• Guiding force which molds and
directs the life of a man and as such
it is the chief integrating force in
man’s character

Physical
➢ Must maintain health and harmony with nature
Spiritual
➢ Capable of higher concerns and of
rising above the material
➢ Must cultivate a sense of spiritually
and respond to God in faith

Intellectual/Mental
➢ Must constantly search for truth
➢ Seeks knowledge that would
transform society and the world
cultivate a sense of social
responsibility
Moral
● Endowed with the faculty of freely choosing and loving
● Must go out to others and in fact to all humanity in love

Social
● Must cultivate a sense of social responsibility
➢ Must be aware of his unique participation
in the pursuit of the welfare of the family and the common good of the larger society

Economic
•Has obligation to help achieve economic efficiency for the community