National Service

Training Program
Learning Outcomes
Determine the holistic concept of the National Service Training
Program (NSTP);
Analyze the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) as a component of
a NSTP to alleviate social problems and issues in the community;
Develop a deeper and active engagement in various grassroots
community service.
National Service Training Program
• NSTP introduces the Filipino youth to civic consciousness and
emergency response.
• It aims to develop their ethics and patriotism by engaging in one
component out of its three components, which is designed to
enhance the Filipino students active participation in nation-
building.
• The NSTP law or republic act no. 9163, also known as the national
service training program (NSTP) act of 2001, was signed by former
president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on January 23, 2002.
• It is the integration of house bill no. 3593 and senate bill no. 1824,
which were both passed and approved on December 19, 2001.
 NSTP Components
1. The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a program institutionalized under section
38 and 39 of republic act no. 7077 designed to provide military training to tertiary level
students to motivate, train, organize, and mobilize them for national defense
preparedness.
2. The literacy training service (LTS) is a program designed to train students to become
teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out-of-school youth, and other
segments of society in need of their service.
3. The civic welfare training service (CWTS) refers to 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 the citizenry.

The department of national defense (DND), commission on higher education (CHED), and
technical education and skills development authority (TESDA) lead the implementation and
monitoring of NSTP. Their primary function is to oversee if the program being conducted in
schools is in consonance with the newly revised IRR issued on November 13, 2009.
 Coverage of the NSTP Law
1. All incoming freshman students, male and female, starting school year (SY) 2002-2003, enrolled in
any baccalaureate and in at least two (2)-year technical-vocational or associate courses, are
required to complete one NSTP component of their choice as a requirement for graduation.
2. All higher educational institutions, including State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) and technical-
vocational education institutions, must offer upon enrollment, all the three NSTP components.
However, state universities and colleges (SUCs) are required to provide and maintain the ROTC
component
3. The Philippine Military Academy (PMA), Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA), Philippine
National Police Academy (PNPA) [are] exempted from the NSTP in view of the special character of
these institutions. Other state universities and colleges of similar nature will be exempted,
subject to approval of the Department of National Defense.
4. Private higher educational institutions (HEIs) and technical-vocational education institutions with
at least 350 students cadets must establish/maintain a Department of Military Science and Tactics
(DMST), subject to existing rules and regulations.
NSTP-CWTS Vision
The vision of NSTP-CWTS serves as the practical guide for setting goals and
objectives, making decisions, preparing the course outline, and coordinating and
evaluating the course program. The vision will help in keeping the course focused.
Agcaoili (2012a) stated the vision of the NSTP-CWTS as follows:
1. To educate students to become pioneers of change and embody respect and
preservation of culture with integrity, competence, and commitment when
rendering service to the community
2. To inculcate students with Filipino values, such as loyalty, the desire to serve
the country with pride and integrity, the accountability of nation-building, and
sustainability
3. To develop a sense of volunteerism as productive Filipino citizens and members
of the National Service Reserve Corps
NSTP-CWTS Mission
The mission of NSTP-CWTS is to foster the promotion and integration of values
education, transformational leadership, and sustainability of social mobilization for
youth development, national-building, and global solidarity (Agcaoili, 2012a). The
mission of NSTP-CWTS is provided as follows:
1. Provide relevant activities that will contribute to the physical, intellectual,
spiritual, and social development of students
2. Inculcate in students the values of leadership, patriotism, and social responsibility
3. Educate students to become community planners, designers and managers on
sustainable community projects
4. Conduct capability enhancements for the community services geared towards
preparing the students to become results-oriented, social entrepreneurs,
community volunteers, and socio-economic mobilizing forces that serve as value-
oriented pioneers in community development
5. Allow students to render services with community organizations at the grassroots
level
6. Create an opportunity for students to do community service
NSTP-CWTS Core Values
The NSTP-CWTS core values will become the basis of a student’s performance in the
subject. NSTP-CWTS fosters the following values:
1. Love of God
2. Human dignity
3. Discipline, truth, righteousness and sustainability
4. Awareness, innovation and creativity
5. Respect, synergy and professionalism
6. Excellence and indigenous learning
7. Protection and conservation of the environment
8. Effective community service
NSTP-CWTS Minimum Standards
NSTP-CWTS helps develop self-reliant communities and
encourages the cooperation of the different departments of the national
government, which could provide support in facilitating socioeconomic
activities and delivering basic services toward the development of the
community. NSTP-CWTS strategies follow an integrative approach to
community development, which unites people, local government units
(LGU), civic leaders and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at the
grassroots level.
NSTP-CWTS 1 is a three-unit non-academic course required to
be taken by every tertiary-level student. The common and specific modules
outlined in the IRR of the NSTP Law provide its minimum standards.
CHED provides that NSTP-CWTS 1 must have eighty-three (83)
training hours for two semesters, and includes seven topics and scopes of
instruction. These are as follows:
1. Filipino core values such as self-awareness and values development that deal
with the nature of the self, personality development, nationalism, patriotism
and good Filipino citizenship
2. The concepts of leadership, human behavior, good communication, individual
motivation, time management and decision making
3. Dimensions of development that cover global, national and local issues on
health, education (enhancement of instructional support materials and
faculties), entrepreneurship, recreation and morals of the citizenry and other
social welfare concerns such as voters education and poverty alleviation
4. Community exposure and agency visits that involve the nature, development
and approaches to community work and community-building
5. Community needs assessment and its process, survey and execution
6. Programs and services about drug and health education for the youth, medical-
dental missions, community cleanliness drives, livelihood training for women
and values formation
7. Monitoring and evaluation for assessing the impacts of programs on the
community