Chapter 1: Introduction and Background of the Study

Introduction:

“Sangguninag Kabataan” is an association intended to represent all of the

youth residing in each barangay that coincides Philippines. During the 2013

barangay elections Sangguniang Kabataan was put on hold but was not

eradicated. In the year 2016 a reform law on Sangguniang Kabataan was

completed into act with a lot of changes made into it.

Sangguniang Kabataan was also known as the Kabataan Barangay that

was made during the time of President Marcos in the course of martial law.

Marcos in 1975 believed that youth needs to have a significant role to be part of

the affairs in the community, in order to deliver what it is that the youth has in

mind. To make decision making on government blended with the young innocent

minds in order to make it useful to all community members. Marcos’ daughter

Imee has been a chairman during that time.

Kabataan Barangay started to be less popular with all of the controversy

flowing that they are just being a mere puppet of those who are older than them.

Marcos’ time was full of activists which is more popular than Kabataan Barangay

until the time that it was abolished. Then the next president Corazon Aquino

envisioned that youth can be trained to be the future leaders of our country but it

lacked the powers intended by the president.

to 18 years old who are residing atleast 6 months in the barangay location and

must be listed also on the official barangay list. Also Sangguniang Kabataan

which were voted by the Katipunan ng Kabataan to represent them and deliver

program and services which are focused on the youth. The age 15 to below 18

are based on Republic Act 9164 in 2002.

During the implementation of Sangguniang Kabataan, poor reputation

when it comes to their poor programs that will have good impact for the youth

has widely spread and other issues like same old program were being

implemented every year also corruption and nepotism. Truly when it comes to

the young innocent mind of ages 15 to 17 years old it is really hard to do things

the way that adults expected it to become. According to the study of Department

of Local Government on 2007 it showed that the past 10 years Sangguniang

Kabataan Performance has been way of the expected outcomes.

On 2013 Republic Act no. 10632 was enacted to postpone the scheduled

elections for the SK with the reason that it only serve as a breeding ground for

political dynasty, traditional politician and corruption. Accoridng to Sen Francis

Escudero leaving the Sangguniang Kabataan Position would definitely abolished

this positions. During the time that there are no seated Sangguniang Kabataan

Officials, Department of Interior and Local Government together with COMELEC

made regulations on how the barangays will use to 10% allotted Internal

Revenue Allotment for the Sangguniang Kabataan activities and programs.

representative passed a reform bill for the age of Sangguniang Kabataan.

Instead of having the age of 15 to 17 it was changed into 15 to 21 and together

with that change also made a provisions for havi-.ng an anti-dynasty that

forbidding a candidates that has a relative in the public office with the second

degree of affinity for the purpose of increasing Sanggunian Kabaan’s autonomy.

President Aquino during that time passed a law that postpones once again the

election.

On 2016 once again a Sangguniang Kabataan reform law was put into act

and made lots of changes for the previous restrictions or qualifications of those

who wants to become an Elected Sangguniang Kabataan Representative. The

age was changed from 15 to 17 into the new age gap of 18 to 24 years old and

forbids those who wants to be elected with a relative within 2 nd degree of

consanguinity from those of appointed or elected official with that specific area.

And then comes the year 2018 wherein the elected has made it once

again and created opportunities for aspiring individuals who wants to be a

representative of the youth.

The results of this study will be beneficial to the following:

Students: The results will give the students specially Public Administration

course related students to know what are the prohibitions, laws, implementing

rules and regulations etc. when it comes to the subject topic of Sangguniang

Kabataan. Also they will find out the answers on the statement of the problem.

Youth: The given data that coincides within this paper will show the youth on

how to determine the ones whom they will vote on the next barangay election

2021. This will make them change their minds on how will be their basis to pick

the right person at the right vacant position.

Parents: This will help the parents of the individuals who aspires to be elected as

Sangguniang Kabataan official to determine if it is right to let their child

participate in such puppet act. Which their child are only used for the political will

of those who has higher positions than them.

Public Administrators: This study will give them a big hint whether if it is truly

right to continue Sangguniang Kabataan even though it doesn’t really have a

much greater function for them to be allotted the 10% internal revenue allotment

of the barangay.
Statement of the Problem:

 Is there a need for Sangguniang Kabataan in each Barangay?

 Do Sangguninag Kabataan have a purpose for them to be compensated

by the government?

 Do Sangguniang Kabataan really have good programs for youth?

 Does having youth representative entails Corruption and Nepotism?

 Is popularity the only basis for a youth to be elected as Sangguniang

Kabataan?

 Will the abolishment of Sangguniang Kabataan provide additional funds

for a greater community or national project?

 Does Sangguniang Kabataan only contributes to traditional politician?

 Are they matured enough to have this big responsibility?

An article published by Charles Ladia on Rappler.com (September 27, 2014

heard what the position entails: rumors about politicking, corruption, and

repetitive projects and programs.

In conferences on youth empowerment and leadership, I always get to

meet new faces and stories of inspiration. I have made friends with young people

who have found their life passion – clean energy use, social enterprises, and

heritage conservation. There are so many young Filipinos who possess the

energy, grit, and skill to become future leaders of this nation. One cannot contain

the aspirations of the juvenile into just ideas and plans; they need an outlet so

that they can put these skills to good use and they can be trained early as

responsible leaders in their own rights.

Ideally, the Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Council) is the venue for young

Filipinos to be trained as leaders, but along the way, there seems to be a

multitude of issues surrounding the institution.”

https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/fact-check/205999-hoax-bam-aquino-

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An article published by Philip Tubeza at inquirerdotnet (July, 2013 quoted)

“Will Congress abolish its nursery?

For the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Sangguniang Kabataan

(SK), or local youth councils, are nothing more than a “breeding ground for

political dynasties” and, worse, of corrupt politicians. Comelec Commissioner

Lucenito Tagle told reporters that the poll body was planning to ask Congress to

scrap the program.

“We don’t see anything of importance that has been produced by the SK.

We have many cases here where parents are the ones intervening in vote-buying

and irregularities (in SK elections),” Tagle said in an interview.

“Imagine at that age, that’s already [their] charge against each other. It

shouldn’t be like that. They are being exposed to all of these things at an early

stage,” he said. “Get rid of the SK,” he said. “First of all, we spend so much for

the SK elections when only 2 million voters (aged 15 to just below 18) participate.

The turnout is also low and there are no good results for the youth.”

Tagle said the budget for the barangay (village) and SK elections on Oct.

28 already reached P3.4 billion. “It’s really costly. The barangay council already

has a youth representative. Why not focus on that? Let’s just strengthen the

youth representation,” he said.

Responsible Voting that the program had become a “breeding ground for political

dynasties.”

“Those who become candidates are the children of the barangay (officials)

as well as those of the mayor, and the congressman. They are [being groomed]

to run as future mayors, congressman,” he said. Tagle said the Comelec had

also received “many complaints” about alleged financial shenanigans in the

councils.”

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/437705/comelec-mulls-seeking-law-to-abolish-sk
Scope and Delimitation

The scope of this study is descriptive in nature. The main focus of this

learning is to show if there is really a need for the said officials and if their

programs are helpful on the side of those who will benefit from it.

In this research, study is delimited on the youth ages from 18 to 24 years

old who has the right to vote for Sangguniang Kabataan and be elected as their

representative. The study does not cover other government elected or appointed

position. The study will only be conducted within the part of Guagua Pampanga

area only.
Chapter 3: Methodology of the Study

In this chapter, the researcher will discuss on what is the research of

design, population and samples, research instrument, validity procedure, data

gathering procedure and summary.

Research Design

The researcher chose a survey type of research design because it will be

the one that best fit that will answer all of the unanswered questions when it

comes to the statement of the problem.

The survey research is one in which only a few group of individuals will be

studied by gathering and examining part of the group considered to be the

representative of the whole group.

Population and Samples

The target population on this study will only include those ages whether

masculine or feminine who are directly involve within the program of

Sangguniang Kabataan within the area of Guagua Pampanga only.

Research Instrument
 The researcher designed an interview scheduled to answer all of the

survey form questions within all of the barangays of Guagua Pampanga as one

of the date collection instrument of this study.

Validity Procedure

The validity of the procedure will be based on the age of the individuals

who will participate in the survey sampling. Each individual before participating in

the survey must not be part or elected as Sangguniang Kabataan official nor has

a relative who is in the position. Individual must also coincide within the age of

those who can vote for the Sangguniang Kabataan Election.

Data Gathering Procedure

After all of the survey form where all answered by random individuals it will

be administered directly to be tallied to get the percentage chosen by them. A

certain number of survey form will be printed and the result will determine all of

the unanswered questions within this study.

Summary

The main purpose of this survey design is to show what the chosen

individual thinks about the need for Sangguniang Kabataan and their experience

when it comes to the programs that is set for them