National Service Training Program (NSTP 2) - Civic Welfare Training Services 2

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering the NSTP 2 Prelim Module topics: Good Governance, Social Mobilization, Electoral Processes, Graft and Corruption, and Poverty.

Governance

The management of the resource endowment of a State, practiced through processes and institutions where citizens articulate interests, exercise rights, and mediate differences.

Good Governance

Pertains to efficient and accountable institutions that protect human rights, respect the rule of law, and ensure people are free to participate in decisions affecting their lives.

Participation

A principle of good governance where everyone has the opportunity to voice opinions and exercise the right to freedom of association and expression.

Rule of Law

The unbiased implementation of the legal system within a nation, particularly concerning human rights law.

Transparency

Implies that government arrangements are carried out beneath existing controls and that data related to policies is accessible to everyone, especially those affected.

Responsiveness

A principle requiring institutions and processes to attempt to serve all partners within a reasonable time.

Consensus oriented

A decision-making process that seeks choices acceptable to everyone and does not hurt anybody when universal wishes cannot be met.

Equity and Inclusiveness

Ensures that every member of the community has the same opportunity to preserve and improve their welfare.

Effectiveness and Efficiency

The ability of decision-making processes and institutions to deliver choices that meet community needs while using resources optimally.

Accountability

The full duty of institutions to the public for the purpose of improving the quality of society.

Social Mobilization

Intentionally organized operations and strategies to involve all pertinent societal groups to foster a supportive setting and bring about constructive shifts in conduct.

Capability Building

A process defined by Abhiyan (2004) to enable deprived community people to plan, manage, and control their own development program.

Community Action Cycle (CAC)

A proven community mobilization approach that fosters individual and collective action to address key health program goals and related outcomes.

Suffrage

A privilege and right given to every Filipino citizen to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision regarding national interest.

Election

A formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office by popular vote.

Lansadera (Chained Balloting)

An illegal scheme where a buyer pays a voter to take a blank official ballot out of the polling place, which the buyer then fills out for the next voter to cast.

Negative Vote Buying

Paying a voter identified as supporting an opponent to not vote, sometimes involve herding voters away for the duration of the election day.

RA No. 9189

The Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003, providing a system for qualified Filipino citizens abroad to vote for president, vice-president, senators, and party-list representatives.

Article 137 of Revised Penal Code

Defines Disloyalty of public officers or employees as failing to resist a rebellion or continuing to discharge duties under rebel control.

Corruption

Derived from the Latin 'corruptus'; it is the abuse of a trusted position with the intention of obtaining unjustified material benefit through bribery, nepotism, or appropriation of public resources.

Sir Francis Bacon

A historical figure who reached the highest judicial position in England but was caught in 28 cases of accepting bribes from both parties to a case.

Kaufmann and Gray (1998)

Researchers who found that bribery increases transaction costs, creates economic insecurity, and imposes a regressive tax on small businesses.

RA No. 6713

The Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees, upholding the principle that public office is a public trust.

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

An assessment approach involving residents in identifying community issues through surveys and interviews.

Poverty

The state of being extremely poor, existing when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.

Overcoming Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines

A World Bank report released on November 24, 2022, highlighting critical gains in poverty reduction between 1985 and 2018.

Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP)

Government infrastructure projects specifically designed to benefit geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.

Poverty Reduction Goal 2028

The objective of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to reduce the poverty rate in the Philippines by nine percentage points by the end of his term.