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The document discusses the Filipino youth and their role in nation-building. It notes that the youth represent powerful potential for change. It then provides demographic categories for Filipino youth and highlights concerning statistics about their lives from a national study. Specifically, it finds issues related to mental health, education, employment, governance, and health awareness. However, it also identifies opportunities if the youth are enabled and involved. The document concludes that a national youth plan is needed to promote the rights and welfare of Filipino youth and ensure their meaningful participation across various areas including health, education, governance, and the environment.

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PPT. PYDP Simple Version

The document discusses the Filipino youth and their role in nation-building. It notes that the youth represent powerful potential for change. It then provides demographic categories for Filipino youth and highlights concerning statistics about their lives from a national study. Specifically, it finds issues related to mental health, education, employment, governance, and health awareness. However, it also identifies opportunities if the youth are enabled and involved. The document concludes that a national youth plan is needed to promote the rights and welfare of Filipino youth and ensure their meaningful participation across various areas including health, education, governance, and the environment.

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THE FILIPINO YOUTH

AND THE CHANGE THEY REPRESENT


"We have a powerful
potential in our youth, and
we must have the courage
to change old ideas and
practices so that we may
direct their power toward
good ends.“

Mary McLeod Bethune,


Social Activist
Who are the Filipino youth?

15-17 years old Youth Children

18-24 years old Core Youth

25-30 years old Young Adult


The Filipino youth can also identify themselves as a
member of any of the following different subsectors.

❑ School Placement
❑ In-school
❑ Not in education, employment or training
❑ Working

❑ Youth with Disability/ies

❑ Youth with Specific Needs

❑ Gender

❑ Geography

❑ Indigenous peoples group affiliation


What does the National Youth Assessment Study tell
us about the Filipino youth? Red Flags

14% have considered About half are not fully


26% have thought at
taking their life, aware of HIV/AIDS and
least once that life was
engaged in steps to sexually transmitted
not worth living
push through with it diseases

More than half of the


50% of the working About 70% are not
working youth do not
youth prefer to go members of any youth
receive employment
abroad organization
benefits

1 out of 2 of the youth


69.3% believe that
is not satisfied with the
corruption is
state of governance in
unavoidable
the country
What does the National Youth Assessment Study tell
us about the Filipino youth? Wi ndows
of Opp
ortuni
ties

About 78% agreed that 65% of those no longer


political participant is studying want to go
important back to school

78% agree that there is


nothing wrong with
90% are PROUD TO BE
seeking professional
FILIPINOS
counselling for mental
problems
But…

THE YOUTH ARE


NOT JUST KIDS!
THEY ARE THE

FUTURE LEADERS!
THE VOICE AND ADVOCATE OF THE FILIPINO YOUTH
OUR RESPONSIBILITY:
YOUTH-IN-NATION BUILDING

By virtue of RA 8044 or the “Youth in Nation


Building Act of 1995”, the National Youth
Commission is mandated to be the
policy-making coordinating body of all
youth-related institutions, programs, projects
and activities of the government.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY:
YOUTH-IN-NATION BUILDING

• NYC aspires for an enabled, involved and patriotic


youth realizing their aspirations.
• Its mission is “to promote sustainable developmental
policies and programs for and with the Filipino
Youth.”
How do we do this?

By enabling
YOUTH PARTICIPATION.
AND HOW AGAIN?

The Philippine Youth Development


Plan 2017-2022
which is basically a
participatorily-developed,
participation-focused plan to enable,
promote, and ensure the rights and welfare
of the Filipino youth.
WE NEED THE YOUTH’S
PARTICIPATION
We need to make sure that the Filipino youth are able
to meaningfully participate in the following areas:

Health
Education
Economic empowerment
Social inclusion and equity
Security
Governance
Active citizenship
Environment
Global mobility
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Health by:
– Ensuring youth participation in healthy living;
– Strengthening youth participation in responsible
sexual and responsible health;
– Addressing and mitigating youth participation in
sexual risk-taking behavior;
– Addressing and mitigating youth participation in
non-sexual risk-taking behavior; and
– Addressing psychosocial concerns.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Education by:
– Increasing and improving youth participation in
education; and
– Improving educational quality and performance.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Economic Empowerment by:
– Optimizing youth participation in the labor force;
– Stopping youth participation in vulnerable
employment;
– Promoting youth participation in entrepreneurial
activities; and
– Strengthening youth participation in employment
enrichment support systems.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Social Inclusion and Equity by:
– Promoting the prosocial participation of youth with special
needs;
– Maximizing participation of youth with disability in society;
– Promoting the participation of indigenous people youth in
society;
– Strengthening equal and equitable participation across
genders (addressing violence against women);
– Strengthening equal and equitable participation across
genders (addressing job discrimination);
– Strengthening equal and equitable participation across
genders (addressing issues confronting LGBTQ+); and
– Strengthening equal and equitable participation across
genders (addressing male enrolment and attrition).
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Security by:
– Strengthening youth participation in promoting
peace and order;
– Optimizing youth participation in the peace
process;
– Promoting the prosocial participation of youth
with special needs (wayward youth); and
– Promoting the prosocial participation of youth
with special needs (drug-dependent youth).
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Governance by:
– Ensuring universal participation in the
Sangguniang Kabataan (SK);
– Ensuring universal participation in (non-SK) local
and national elections; and
– Promoting youth participation in government and
bureaucracy.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Active Citizenship by:
– Strengthening enabling mechanisms for youth
organization and participation: accreditation,
awareness and assistance;
– Engaging the youth in the preservation,
safeguarding, development, and promotion of
Philippine culture and arts; and
– Inculcating volunteerism through the academe
and community engagement.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Environment by:
– With active citizenship: Strengthening youth
participation in environmental activities; and
– With active citizenship: Promoting
environment-friendly practices among the youth.
WE NEED THE YOUTH:
MAJOR CHANGE-MAKER
• In Global Mobility by:
– With education: Promoting youth participation in
cross-border exchanges;
– With active citizenship: Promoting youth
participation in cross-border socially relevant
activities;
– With economic empowerment: Supporting youth
participation in cross-border economic activities;
and
– Addressing cross-border youth trafficking.
We cannot always build a future for our youth,
but we can always build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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