Lyceum of the East and 48th IB to Hold Joint Strategic Action Plan in Aurora National Greening and Gender and Development (GAD) Program

MARIA AURORA, Aurora, August 8, 2012-The National Service Training Program (NSTP) of the two (2) campuses of Lyceum of the East in Aurora and the 48^th Infantry “Guardians” Battalion, Philippine Army based in Brgy. Calabuanan, Baler, Aurora will hold a workshop on the formulation of the Joint Committee Strategic Action Plan (JCSAP) for 2012 to 2015 to assess and to educate environmental situation in the province.

Lyceum of the East-Aurora (LEA) Maria Aurora NSTP President Allan T. Dela Rosa said that the workshop, which is scheduled on August 9 to 10, 2012 in Brgy. Florida, Maria Aurora, “aims to assess the National Greening Program situation in the province in terms of prevailing environmental problems and adequacy of ongoing action in the environment.” 

Mr. Cyril Philip A. Angala, NSTP President of Lyceum of the East, Inc. (LE) Baler said that the workshop also intends to identify the vision, values, mission, overall goal, immediate objectives, and key result areas of the program to address the environment in the province.

The duo said that the expected output will be a Joint Committee Strategic Action Plan (JCSAP) that specifies an assessment of the provincial environment situation, a clearly stated vision, mission and values, the overall goal of the plan, the immediate objectives and key result areas.”

Expected to participate in the activity are selected NSTP Officers and members of the Technical Working Group from the college and the 48^th Infantry “Guardians” Battalion, Philippine Army from the well-performing and low-performing municipalities and other stakeholders. 

2lt Teresita T Ingente said that the activity is also in consonance with the AFP’s Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan”, the army considers the youth as a vital sector of the society that needs attention particularly to win their support and to develop their character.

Meanwhile, the newly launched program of the two (2) campuses: “Gender and Development” is given impetus for the protection of humans particularly the youth. At present the school and the army are designing a program for the said matter.

In recent decades, women's and girls' education and health levels have improved greatly. But in many parts of the world, women are still dying in childbirth, or not being born at all, at alarming rates. Women continue to lack voice and decision-making ability in the household and in society; and, their economic opportunities remain very constrained. This inequality is manifestly unfair. It is also bad economics: under-investing in girls and women puts a brake on poverty reduction and limits economic and social development.

The Gender and Development (GAD) approach is a way of determining how best to structure development projects and programs based on analysis of gender relationships. It was developed in the 1980s as an alternative to the Women in Development (WID) approach that was in common use until then. (Jason de Asis)