CIVIC WELFARE TRAINING SERVICE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Show understanding of the National Service Training
Program (NSTP)
 Recognize the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) as the
component of NSTP that aims to help alleviate social
problems through the different community services, and;
 Express commitment to be actively involved in various
community services.
NSTP LAW
Republic Act 9163 otherwise known as

“The Act Establishing the National Service

Training Program (NSTP) for Tertiary Level
Students, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act
7077 and Presidential Decree 1706”
 NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING
PROGRAM (NSTP)
is a program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and
defense preparedness in the youth by developing the ethics
of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any
of its three (3) program components its various components
are especially designed to enhance the youth’s active
contribution to the general welfare.
ESTABLISHMENT OF NSTP
NSTP aims to inculcate consciousness and defense
preparedness in the Filipino Youth. It helps develop in
them the ethics of service and patriotism while they
undergo training in any of the program’s three
components which specifically designed to enhance
students’ participation.
 ESTABLISHMENT OF NSTP
There is hereby established a National Service Training
Program (NSTP) which shall form part of the curricula of
all baccalaureate degree courses and of at least two (2)
year technical-vocational courses and is a requisite for
graduation consisting of the following service
components:
 ESTABLISHMENT OF NSTP
Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) – made
optional and voluntary upon the effectivity of RA
9163
Literacy Training Service (LTS):
 COVERAGE OF NSTP
Students, male and female, of any baccalaureate
degree course or at least two (2) year technical
vocational courses in public and private educational
institutions shall be required to complete one (1) of
the NSTP component as requisite for graduation.
Implementing Rules and Regulations
of the National
Service Training Program (NSTP)
issued by CHED dated 10 April
2002:
 COVERAGE
All incoming freshmen students, male and female,
starting school year 2002-2003, enrolled in any
baccalaureate and in the least two (2) year technical-
vocational or associate courses are required to complete
one (1) NSTP component of their choice as a graduation
requirement.
 COVERAGE
All higher and technical-vocational
institutions, public and private, must offer at
least one NSTP component.
 COVERAGE
State universities and colleges (SUCs) must
offer ROTC and at least one other NSTP
component, namely LTS or CWTS.
 COVERAGE
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA), Philippine
Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA), Philippine
National Police Academy (PNPA), and other similar
SUCs of similar nature, in view of the special character
of these institutions are not covered by the NSTP Law.
 COVERAGE
Private Higher Educational Institutional (HEIs) and
technical-vocational educational institutions with at least
350 student cadets may offer ROTC and consequently
establish and maintain a Department of Military Science
and Tactics, which is still subject to the existing rules
and regulations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
 DURATION AND
EQUIVALENT COURSE UNIT
Each of the aforementioned NSTP program
components shall be undertaken for an academic
period of two (2) semesters. It shall be credited for
three (3) units per semester for fifty-four (54) to
ninety (90) training hours per semester.
ORGANIZATION OF THE NSTP
GRADUATES
Graduates of the non-ROTC components of the NSTP shall
belong to the National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) and
could be tapped by the State for literacy and civic welfare
activities through the joint efforts of DND, CHED and TESDA
in coordination with DILG, DSWD, and other concerned
agencies and associations.
ORGANIZATION OF THE NSTP
GRADUATES
Graduates of the non-ROTC components of the NSTP shall
belong to the National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) and
could be tapped by the State for literacy and civic welfare
activities through the joint efforts of DND, CHED and TESDA
in coordination with DILG, DSWD, and other concerned
agencies and associations.
Civic Welfare Training Service
(CWTS)
refers to the programs or activities contributory to
the general welfare and the betterment of life for the
members of the community of the enhancement of its
facilities, especially those devoted to improving
health, education, environment, entrepreneurship,
safety, recreation and morals of citizenry
Civic Welfare Training Service
(CWTS)
Section 15 (4) of Batas Pambansa Bilang 232 provides that
“ It is the duty and responsibility of students to participate
actively in civic affairs and be involved in the promotion of
the general welfare of the people, particularly in the social,
economic and cultural development of their community and
in the attainment of a just, compassionate and orderly
society.