PALOMPON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM

Civic Welfare Training Service

NSTP - CWTS
OVERVIEW

• This chapter introduces NSTP in accordance with the newly revised

Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). NSTP consists of Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), Literary Training Service (LTS), and
(CWTS).

• 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 are specifically designed to enhance the student’s
participation in nation building.
Overview
• The NSTP Law or Republic Act No. 9163, also known as An Act
Establishing the NSTP for Tertiary-Level Students, Amending for the
Purpose republic Act No. 7077 and Presidential Decree No. 1706, and for
Other Purposes, was signed by former President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo on January 23, 2002. It is a consolidation of House Bill No. 3593
and Senate Bill No. 1824 passed by the House of Representatives and the
Senate on December 19, 2001.

• The NSTP Law has made ROTC optional since the first semester of school
year 2002-2003 and has allowed the students to choose from ROTC, LTS,
and CWTS as a requisite for graduation.
NSTP Components
1. ROTC –
institutionalized under
Section 38 and 39 of
Republic Act No. 7077,
is designed to provide
military training to
motivate, equip,
organize, and mobilize
the youth for national
defense preparedness.
NSTP Components

2. LTS – is designed to
train students to
teach literary and
numeracy skills to
schoolchildren, out-
of-school youth, and
other segments of
society in need of
such services.
NSTP Components
3. CWTS – is designed to
actively involve students in
activities contributory to the
general welfare and the
betterment of life for the
members of the community
or the enhancement of its
facilities, especially those
devoted to improving
health, education,
environment, entrepreneur,
safety, recreation, and
moral of the citizenry
 NSTP Components

• The Department of National Defense (DND), Commission on Higher

Education (CHED), and Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) lead in the implementation and monitoring of NSTP.
Coverage of the NSTP Law

1. All students, both male and female, enrolled in any baccalaureate

degrees or in any two-year technical-vocational or non-degree
courses in public and private schools must complete one NSTP
component of their choice for two semesters as a graduation
requirement.
2. All higher and technical-vocational institutions, public and private,
must offer at least one NSTP component
3. State universities and colleges (SUCs) must offer ROTC, and at
least one other NSTP component, LTS or CWTS.
Coverage of the NSTP Law

4. The Philippine Military Academy (PMA), Philippine Merchant

Marine Academy (PMMA), Philippine National Police Academy
(PNPA), and other SUCs of similar nature, in view of the special
character of these institutions, are not covered by the NSTP Law.

5. Private higher educational institutional (HEIs) and technical-

vocational educational institutions with at least 350 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.
NSTP – CWTS VISION

To train students to become innovators of social change with a culture of

excellence and to become leaders with integrity, competence, and
commitment to render service to the community

To develop in the youth the value of patriotism and national pride,

discipline and hard work, integrity and accountability for nation building,
and volunteerism as valuable and effective members of the National
Service Corps of CWTS
NSTP – CWTS MISSION
NSTP-CWTS aims to promote and integrate values education,
transformational leadership, and sustainable social mobilization for youth
development, community building, national renewal, and global solidarity
by:

1. Providing relevant activities that will contribute to the physical,

intellectual, spiritual, and social development of students.
2. Inculcating in students the values of leadership, patriotism, and social
responsibility.
3. Training students to become project planners, designers, and
managers of innovative and sustainable community service-oriented
projects.
NSTP – CWTS MISSION

4. Conducting capability enhancements for civic welfare services geared

toward preparing the youth to become result-oriented social
entrepreneurs, volunteers, and a socioeconomic mobilizing force that
serve communities as value-driven innovators for progress.
5. Working closely with a network of organizations within and outside
the higher education institution.
6. Creating opportunities where students can render direct service to the
community
NSTP – CWTS CORE VALUES
NSTP – CWTS fosters the following values:

1. Love for God

2. Human Dignity
3. Discipline, truth, goodness, and social responsibility
4. Awareness, innovation, and creativity
5. Respect, synergy, and professionalism
6. Excellence and indigenous learning
7. Protection and conservation of the environment
8. Quality service delivery
NSTP – CWTS MINIMUM
STANDARDS
• NSTP-CWTS helps develop informed and self-reliant communities by
encouraging inter-government agency cooperation and providing
complementary assistance and support to facilitate socioeconomic
progress, environmental management, and delivery of basic services,
geared toward uplifting the well-being of people

• The NSTP-CWTS strategies are an integrative approach to community

development, which unites the people, local officials, civic leaders,
and non governmental organizations.
NSTP – CWTS MINIMUM
STANDARDS

• The NSTP-CWTS 1 is a three-unit non-academic course for students

who opt to take the CWTS component of NSTP

• The minimum standard for NSTP is the development of the common

and specific modules set forth in the IRR.
NSTP – CWTS MINIMUM
STANDARDS
• NSTP-CWTS 1 spans a total of eighty-three training hours for two
semesters and includes seven topics and scope of instructions as
follows:

1. Self-awareness and values development deals with the nature of self,

personal development, roots of the Filipino character, nationalism
and patriotism, and good citizenship values with core Filipino values.
2. Leadership training discusses the concepts of leadership, human
behavior, communications, motivation, teamwork, time management,
and decision making.
NSTP – CWTS MINIMUM
STANDARDS
3. Dimensions of development covers global, national, and local issues
on (a) health, (b) education (enhancement of instructional support
materials and faculties), (c) entrepreneurship, (d) recreation, (e)
moral of the citizenry and other social welfare concerns such as
voters’ education and poverty alleviation.
4. Community exposure and agency visits refer to the nature,
development, and approaches in community work and community
building.
5. Community needs assessment includes knowing the community and
community needs assessment process, survey, and actual conduct.
NSTP – CWTS MINIMUM
STANDARDS
6. Community services dwell on drug education, health education
(medical and dental), environmental education, and entrepreneurship
and culture.
7. Program evaluation tackles the fundamentals, development,
implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the program.