THE FILIPINO YOUTH
AND THE CHANGE THEY REPRESENT
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? Win dows
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
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.
9 CENTERS
OF
PARTICIPATIO
N
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.
EMPOWER
ED YOUTH
education
health
active
citizenship
economic
empowerment
ENABLING
ENVIRONMEN peace&
T security
inclusion &
equity governance
environment
mobility
Eh, ano
ngayon?
Bago gumawa ng kahit na anong programa,
proyekto o gawain, siguraduhing malinaw
ang mithiin
Results-based
Ugaliing unahing isipin ang mithiin bago
magpasya kung ano ang magiging
program, proyekto o gawain
Impact dapat!
Mag-prioritize. Dahil limitado ang resources
para sa mga programa at proyekto,
isagawa lamang yung mga may
maiaambag sa pagkamit ng mga
paangunahing mithiin.
We cannot always build a future for our youth,
but we can always build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maraming Salamat!
