Day 249: SK Governance Resources

We are serious about this, to tell you. This page will be your primary Sangguniang Kabataan Governance Training resources. This post is bulleted compared to the prior introduction of the program. It will include the Committees, Qualifications, Requirements, Reading Materials, Initial Hand-outs and Important Dates.

Please take the liberty to click the links. These will lead you to necessary files and forms, and resources.

Committees/Assignments

Lecturers. The SK Council, City Legislative Officer, City DILG Director, Brgy. Kagawad. All lecturers are yet to be confirmed.

Exams. The SK Council.

Activity Day. SK Staff, Sumabanan, SummerKadahan, Mutya, iLead, Scholars, etc.

Reviews. The SK Council & Staff

Records. Ate Laine, Kag. Lovely & Kag. Joila

Debate. The SK Council

Qualifications

1. Must be a bona fide resident of barangay Fatima for at least 6 months upon registration.
2. Must be 15-17 years old on October 27, 2013.
3. Interested and not willing—to commit any absence.

If you meet these qualifications you can now proceed on preparing the following requirements. Also, please take a good look on item 3.

Requirements

1. Must submit the following:
1. Completed SK Programs Application Form.
2. Copy of Birth Certificate or NSO Birth Certificate.
3. Purok clearance.
4. Your two (2) 2x2 ID picture with white background.
2. Must have access or copy of the minimum requirement of reading materials.

Hand-carry your requirements to the SK Office during office hours. Look for Lalaine Romano.

Item 2 is for your own education. It will not be passed.

Reading Materials

• SK Constitution and By-Laws 2001
• Local Government Code of 1991 (RA 7160)
• Robert’s Rules of Order
• Notes on Resolution Making
• Morales, A. (2007). “The Case Against the Sangguniang Kabataan”
• Others: SKLastDays.blogspot.com

Please provide a copy of the helpful materials as much as you can.

Important Dates

All schedules will fall on the year 2013.

May 24                       -           Deadline for Registration

May 27                       -           Opening Program

May 28                       -           First Module: General Provisions

May 29                       -           Second Module: The SK Chairman

May 30                       -           Third Module: SK Committees

May 31                       -           Exam on Modules 1-3

June 8                         -           Fourth Module: Resolutions

June 22                       -           Fifth Module: Parliamentary Procedure

June 29                       -           Sixth Module: Budget and Approval

July 6                          -           Exam on Modules 4-6

You might also want to have your softcopy of the modules.

July 13, 27 & Aug. 3  -           Activity Day

July 24                        -           Review on Reading and Math

July 31                        -           Review on Writing and Science

August 7                     -           Review on Laws and Others

August 10                   -           Compliance

August 17                   -           Final Exam

August 24                   -           Debate Lecture

We may be joined by some of our Sumbanan Awardees and Mutya ng Fatima winners on these activities.

August 31                  -           Public Debate

September 7               -           Public Debate

September 14             -           Closing Program

In-calendar schedule format is also available. We request each participant to secure one for your own.

Some of the SK Officials in GenSan we were acquainted to.

We also had our training with the DILG last 2010, but, really,
it's good to have a head-start. Don't hesitate to join the
SK Governance program of Sangguniang Kabataan
Barangay of Fatima.

The Fatima SK Council hopes that upon joining the SK Governance this generation
will realize the cliché but truthful utterance of Dr. Jose Rizal. Invite others as well!

Any more words?

That’s packed, I must say. This, in a way, can address the pressing need on today’s SK governance.

For one part, it’s a program on transparency; secondly, a community outreach (through activity days); and finally, an education and capacity building program. A package.

NOTE: For inquiries, visit the SK Office or message us at the Sangguniang Kabataan Facebook page. The Sangguniang Kabataan reserves the right not to respond to questions whose answers are already stated/shown herein, or on its affiliated pages, links, and forms.

Day 252: Additional Summer Ideas for You

Beat the heat, it’s summer! Well, who knows which month in the year is summer, really? Hahahahah! Anyway, let us leave the SK Governance program in a moment and reminisce our SK's activity last summer of 2012. Let me share you a short photo blogpost about our last year’s “beating the heat” outreach.

Since all of us sometimes need a lift to produce ideas for our barangay Sangguniang Kabataan this post might come helpful.

In this outreach we have more than 800 children beneficiaries. Our 2012 Summer Outreach & Service (S.O.S.) ran for 7 days, evenly distributed within the months of summer. Our activities included clean-up drives to the four major roads in our barangay, and 5 purok centers where we placed stations to render service to the host purok and its neighbors. To God be all the glory, most, if not all, of the puroks in our barangay benefited from this help. (S.O.S., yeah?)

We tapped partners in this endeavor. They include Share An Opportunity (SAO) Philippines-Catalyst of Fatima, an NGO, the Purok Sangguniang Kabataan, a PO, a teacher from our local high school, and the Police.

The structure

We have so called “stations”. We operate on 5 stations, excluding our Regi-Station, or the registration table. The photos below will give you glimpse of these operations.

The naming of these things came to me just recently [like when I’m writing this?!].

So now, our S.O.S. includes the following:

Our Regi-Station. The officer was the President of SAO-Catalyst of Fatima then.

Garbage Segregation Station headed by PSK Officials.

Hand Washing Station. Is it just me or the
child's eyes is just so powerful?

That smile from the Story-telling Station.

You guessed it right! The Play Station.

Feeding Station with me :)

The yarn tied to the fingers or wrists of the children works two ways. One, it allows us to tract their activity in the center, that is, whether they have passed the necessary stations before the culminating Feeding Station. These stations gave the Feeding Outreach more value. And second, Ohhh! Aren't they just cute on those little hands?!

Any more words?

Well, none. Thank you for reading!

Day 258: SK Governance v.1.0

Today, we now officially open the invitation for our summer and post-summer program, aside from the SummerKadahan, the “Sangguniang Kabataan Governance”.

This program aims to equip our young people as future Sangguniang Kabataan officers of our barangay. This will be done without the taints of political color, as what some programs in barangays appear to be. Besides, any barangay government should never adhere to such, not just the SK.

How it came to be?

Last January, a meeting with the barangay SK Officials and Staff was conducted. This was made without the presence of other sectoral entities.

“Preposterous creatures! They haven’t welcomed representations in such pivotal moment.”

Hold your horses. This was made possible because the SK has been collecting inputs from the youth of the puroks, youth NGOs and POs in the barangay the whole of 2012, e.g., in the iLead² and monthly meetings.

To continue, on that meeting we have declared interest to an intentional and educational transition from the current set of officers to the next. On this, we corroborated to hold a program that will help the aspiring young individuals in the barangay who want to become an SK officer, at least, of the basics.

But—but—there won’t be a barangay election this 2013?!!

Who says? In the purest sense of reason, there has been no law that has intervened with the 3-year, as one term, prescription in the RA 7160. That means, whether you like it or really like it, there will be an election on October 2013, at the very moment of this post.

Oppositions

This activity is not done to aid any personalities on their campaign on the Local Elections this May. If it were to serve someone, it would be the young people of Barangay Fatima.

Also, many people, that include employees (and officers?) in our barangay and some random people, ask who would we “toss-up” for the office this upcoming 2013 barangay election. Gladly, our recommendation will be as objective as possible. This program will help us determine capable individuals.

The structure

Each one in the SK is instrumental in every project.

As mentioned earlier, this will cover the basic principles and knowledge in advancing the public office, as in the Sangguniang Kabataan.

The current module will include the topics: The Council: General Provisions, The SK Chairman, SK Committees, Resolution, Parliamentary Procedure, and Budget and Approval; in that order.

As agreed, the day after the opening program will be the first day of lectures. Every afternoon on the three-day stretch will include lectures and making outputs or practicums. But it will not stop there since the whole program will last till September. Moreover, in every 3 modules finished is an exam.

Saturdays will be an activity day, unless specified. This day can include outreaches like tutorial sessions or clean-ups.

When the modules were exhausted, preparations for a final exam will commence. This exam is sought to have included areas like English, Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and the laws relevant to the SK. 

In addition, there will also be public debates. You chairpersons know its purpose. I don’t have to state it.

It would be enough to say that these activities are recorded. This record will provide bases for our long-sought recommendation, and honor to the most capable ones.

Any more words?

On soonest time possible, I will post the qualifications, requirements and reading materials needed by a participant in the Sangguniang Kabataan Governance program.

Day 259: Leadership is "Influence"?

Anyone will always have something to say about leadership. “Leadership is influence.” Many would agree and most of the leadership trainings and seminars I have attended here in the Philippines speak the same. However, if we will settle that leading an organization or people has a plain aim to “influence”, whether ‘good’ or ‘very good’, we’ll get nowhere tangible.

The people we lead, even those who are just passive, wants something to ‘see’. Influence, in a sense, is abstract. Therefore if you want to push on the idea of not doing anything tangible but be content on influencing others, well, negative feedbacks from those ‘eyes’ can overwhelm you. But coming from the same standpoint, we can draw something important about “Leadership is influence” and transpose it to something tangible.

Another perspective

Influencing then should be an investment. Investment should grow and flourish. This should bring out good and can perhaps grow offshoots of the same. Establishing a program to determine such investments, or the people we should greatly influence, can turn out to be something tangible. How? Because, at this point, leaders will now pose to make leaders as well.

Like any investment (1) it needs a great deal of time from you, (2) can cost you [a lot], (3) be attached to your heart, mind, and company.

Here's the problem

In our Sangguniang Kabataan, we sometime go haphazard in these terms. For one, we don’t appropriate programs to create leaders, OR though we have the programs already, our constituents’ responses are seasonal. Though the latter may be the reason, we must pursue.

The least

More so, the 2013 barangay elections is at hand. If you can identify, my kagawads and I would not want to create the same groping-in-the-dark moments to those who will come after us. That is why in the last days of the Sangguniang Kabataan for this term, we will devise a program, a dedicated moment, for those interested to run in the office the next term.

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So far, what we have is a proposal laid on the table (technically speaking). Our Punong Barangay, who at the same time acts as the Sangguniang Kabataan’s adviser, demanded us modules to be used for the meetings.

Some of the topics we aim to discuss are:

1. Functions of the Sangguniang Kabataan
2. Functions of the Chairman, and as ex-officio
3. Functions of the SK Kagawad
4. Budget, Allocation, Appropriation
5. Limitations of the SB towards the SK

Hilarious! We even intend to title the above as, “Sangguniang Kabataan VS the Barangay”, which is just fantastical since we are incorporated, but with unique identity, in the barangay governance.

Any more words?

These days I can at least post twice or thrice a week. I'm polishing the works of my kagawads with regards to these modules.

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