THE NATIONAL

SERVICE TRAINING
PROGRAM

NSTP
Prepared by: Ms. Mikaela Sones
Professor
 WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS OF NSTP?

• The National Service Training Program (NSTP) Law or RA

9163 also known as “ An Act Establishing the National
Service Training Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students,
amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 7077 and
Presidential Decree No. 1706, and for other purposes” was
enacted last January 2002 to amend the Expanded ROTC.

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 WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS OF NSTP?

• This program aimed to enhance 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, specifically designed to
enhance the youth’s active contribution to the general
welfare.

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 WHO ARE COVERED BY THE NSTP LAW?
• All incoming freshmen students, male and female starting
school year , enrolled in any baccalaureate and in at least 2
year technical- vocational or associate courses, are required
to complete 1 NSTP component of their choice as graduation
requirements in compliance with Section 4 of Republic Act.
No. 9163.

• All higher and technical- vocational education institutions

must at least offer 1 of the NSTP components

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 • National Service Training
Program Act of 2001 and Section
4, Rule III of Implementing Rules
and Regulations.

• This law started to be

implemented in all colleges and
universities in 2002

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 • The NSTP Act of 2001 was
conceptualized by the former
CHED Secretary Ester A. Garcia,
now the President of University of
the East.

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 • Republic Act 9163 signed into law
by Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo by
her excellency, in response to the
public of reform in the Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)

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 PROGRAM
COMPONENTS OF
NSTP
 PROGRAM
COMPONENTS OF NSTP
 1. RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS ( ROTC)

• Which is designed to provide military training to tertiary-

level students to motivate, train, organize, and mobilize them
for defense preparedness.

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 2. LITERACY RTRAINING SERVICE (LTS)

• Which serves to train students to teach literacy and

numeracy skills to school children, out- of- school youths,
and any other segments of society in need of this service.

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 3. CIVIC WELFARE TRAINING SERVICE (CWTS)

• Which designs activities that will contribute to the general

welfare and betterment of life for the community, as well as
enhance its facilities and improve the health conditions of its
members. This can be done by focusing on providing the
community with basic skills on health environmental
sanitation, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and
enhancing their moral values.

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 What is the duration & equivalent course
unit of each of the NSTP Component?

• As stipulated in the law, each of the components shall be

undertaken for an academic of 2 semesters and shall be
credited for 3 units per semester with 54 to 90 training
hours a semester.

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 THE NSTP- CWTS DIMENSIONS OF
DEVELOPMENT
S- Safety and Security
E-Education
R- Recreation
V- Values Formation and Moral Recovery
I- Industry and Entrepreneurship
C- Care for health
E- Environment

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 THE REVISED
IMPLEMENTING
RULES AND
REGULATIONS OF
THE NATIONAL
SERVISE TRAINING
PROGRAM (R.A
9163)
 Pursuant to Section 12 of R.A No 9163 otherwise known as the
National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001, the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and Department of National
Defense (DND), in consultation with concerned government
agencies, the Philippine Association of State Universities and
Colleges (PASUC), Coordinating Council of Private Educational
Associations of the Philippines (COCOPEA), Non- Government
Organization (NGOs) and recognized student organizations, hereby
jointly issue, adopt and promulgate the following implementing
rules and regulations to implement the provisions of the Act.

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 RULE 1
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• Section 1. Guiding Principle- the prime duty of the
government to serve and protect its citizen, it shall be the
responsibility of all citizens to defend the security and
promote the general welfare of the State, the government
may require each citizens to render personal, military, or
civil service.

• Section 2. Role of the Youth- the vital role of the youth in

nation building, the State shall promote civic consciousness
among them and shall develop their physical, moral, spiritual
intellectual and social well- being.

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 RULE 2
DEFINITION OF TERMS
• Section 3. An used in the Implementing Rules and Regulations
(IRR), the following term shall mean:

A. NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM ( NSTP)- refers to the

program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defense
preparedness in the youth.

B. RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS- (ROTC)-refers to the

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

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 RULE 2
DEFINITION OF TERMS
C. LITERACY TRAINING SERVICE (LTS)- refers to the program
component designed to train students to teach literacy and
numeracy skills to school children, out- of- school youth as and
other segments of society in need of their services.

D. CIVIC WELFARE TRAINING SERTVICE (CWTS)- refers to the

program component or activities contributory to the general
welfare and the betterment of life for the members of the
community or the enhancement of its facilities.

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 RULE 2
DEFINITION OF TERMS
E. PROGRAM COMPONENT- refers to the service components of
NSTP as defined herein;

F- CLUSTERING- grouping of the students a enrolled to different

schools into taking up the same NSTP components into 1 group
under the management and supervisions of designated school;

G. CROSS ENROLLEMNT- refers to a system of enrollment where a

student is officially enrolled in an academic program of an origin
school but is allowed to enroll in the NSTP component of another
accepting school;

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 RULE 2
DEFINITION OF TERMS
H. NON- GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION (NGO)- refers to any
private organization duly accredited by CHED or recognized by
TESDA; and

I. STUDENT CADET- refers to a student enrolled in the ROTC

component.

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 RULE 3
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
• Section 4. Coverage- all incoming students male and female,
starting Year, enrolled in any baccalaureate and in at least 2 year
technical- vocational or associate courses, are required to
complete 1 NSTP component of their choice, as a graduation
requirement.

• Section 5. Program Components- ROTC, LTS, CWTS

• Section 6. Duration & equivalent Course Unit- each of the

components shall be undertaken for an academic of 2 semesters
and shall be credited for 3 units per semester with 54 to 90
training hours a semester.
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 RULE 3
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
• Section 7. Clustering and Cross Enrollment

• Section 8. Monitoring and Evaluation- Management and

Monitoring

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 RULE 4
FEES AND INCENTIVES
• Section 9. Fees
• Section 10. Incentives, Insurance and Protection

RULE 5
ORGANIZATION OF NSTP GRADUATES
• Section 11. Organization of NSTP Graduates

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 RULE 6
MISCALLANEOUS PROVISIONS
• Section 12. Certificate of Completion
• Section 13. Information Dissemination
• Section 14. Amendatory Clause
• Section 15. Separability Clause
• Section 16. Effectivity

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 RULE 3
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

• Section 4. Coverage- all incoming students male and female,

starting Year, enrolled in any baccalaureate and in at least 2 year
technical- vocational or associate courses, are required to
complete 1 NSTP component of their choice, as a graduation
requirement.

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REPUBLIC ACT NO.
7077
 • This act known as the “Citizen Armed Forces of the Philippines
Reservists Acts” aims to organize, train, develop and maintain a
support unit to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to help protect
our country and citizens in the event of war, invasion or rebellion.

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THE PHILIPPINE
PREAMBLE
 THE PHILIPPINE PREAMBLE

We, the sovereign Filipino people,

imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order
to build a just and humane society, and
establish a Government that shall embody
our ideals and aspirations, promote the
common good, conserve and develop our
patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our
posterity, the blessings of independence
and democracy under the rule of law and a
regime of truth, justice, freedom, love,
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 Meaning…
• It encourages love and passion for our country, the
Philippines. It shows significant messages about our deep
roles and responsibilities to every Filipino and the society. As
a free nation, we must act and spend our liberty with
responsibility focusing on love of country, peace and unity.

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