To provide high-impact and quality extension service and modality that caters to various stakeholders in partnership with local , national, and international organizations and agencies.
Strategic Initiatives:
To provide opportunities for actual involvement in the community development program and activities that will help the people attain their fullest potentials as self-reliant individuals and communities.
To attain commitment to serve the poor through feedback and evaluation mechanism.
To develop an extension activities that will empower the people to build their own economic stability and morally founded.
To be open to linkages with other organizations both national and international that will support the community projects for sustainability.
To offer reasonable extension projects and/or programs wherein concerned parties gain access to the same.
Strategic Initiatives:
Facilitate the conduct of gender and development (GAD) – related activities, projects and programs in cooperation with involved shareholders.
Support active participation of shareholders, students and faculty members in the implementation of extension activities, projects and programs.
Determine the conduct of periodic and/or regular seminars, and webinars that meaningfully extend the Department’s overall curricular strength and continuing development as a unit of higher learning.
To provide extension service programs through various trainings and system application that will address the needs of concerned stakeholders.
Strategic Initiatives:
To promote outcome-oriented researches and projects to guarantee significant contribution in community development and sustainability.
To become renowned in conducting capacity-building seminars and trainings for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To reduce the impact of climate change-related natural disasters to the community by developing culture of resiliency; introduction of new system and approach in agriculture and; education and exchange of knowledge in addressing natural hazards.
To strengthen multidisciplinary/ Interdisciplinary research to generate high impact research outputs
Strategic Initiatives:
As a state university with the largest number of enrollees belonging to the marginalized sector of society, the research program of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is directed at social capital and innovation towards inclusive growth for national development.
To share knowledge in different fields of expertise for the adapted community between researchers and Barangay officials based on trainings.
To provide good research that will provide holistic development to uplift the moral, spiritual and physical well-being of all members of the community.
To conduct instructional conferences in different fields to provide a venue for collaborative works among scholars while increasing the global visibility of the University.
PROPOSAL FOR COMMUNITY EXTENSION SERVICES
I. PROJECT TITLE: ENGAGING THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF THE PUP
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND PHILOSOPHY ON ITS VARIOUS ACTIVITIES DESIGNED IN COORDINATION WITH THE PEOPLE OF BGY. 635, ZONE 64, DISTRICT VI, CITY OF MANILA
II. IMPLEMENTER: PUP CAL – DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND PHILOSOPHY
III. PROJECT TEAM: Prof. Jeffrey L. Bartilet, PhD
Agnes M. Sunga
Fritz C. Galero
Darius Z. Galorpo
Leonardo Dela Cruz
Oliver A. Dueza
IV. TARGET GROUP: BRGY. 635, ZONE 64, DISTRICT VI, CITY OF MANILA
V. COOPERATING AGENCIES: NONE
VI. TIME FRAME: 3 YEARS
VII. FINANCIAL REQUIREMENT: Php 74, 000.00
VIII. IMPACT STATEMENT:
The PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities will value the community by extending their time and efforts to learn the dynamics of the people. The students, faculty, and staff of the PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities will work together with the leaders of the community to establish better moral and pedagogical projects that will help them become self-reliant and responsible individuals. Thus, the unified efforts of the community will sustain them and work towards a better future.
IX. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Almost all programs in Polytechnic University of the Philippines are voluntarily involved in community services by establishing a partner community to exercise their corporate social responsibility. Different activities are developed based on their expertise and competencies to help the people uplift their dignity as human persons. The goal of PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities in involving in the community extension services aims to provide a holistic development that will uplift the moral, spiritual and physical well-being of all the members of the community especially women and children.
A. INTRODUCTION
The chosen barangay is located along Valencia Street in Sta. Mesa, Manila near Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology. It is a community situated within the proximity of the said institute. The people in the community were consulted during various meetings and focus group discussions. The community has been recently certified as a drug-cleared barangay by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). PUP has been the partner of Barangay 635, Zone 64, District VI for several years and conducted several trainings and other activities with the people. PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities shall continue working with the community involving the Faculty and the students.
The program with the community will be guided by the following objectives:
1. To develop a sustainable educational and cultural project/s for the people in the community based on the result of the survey and the conduct of the training needs analysis.
2. To conduct skills training and workshop to develop soft skills, particularly moral and gender sensitivity, of the barangay officials and employees in the performance of their duties and exercise of their function’s vis-a-vis delivery of basic services. Hence, the trainings and activities are geared towards the sustained moral and heightened social awareness of the entire community.
3. To empower the community leaders to facilitate, implement, and monitor the artistic and philosophical literacy program that would help raise them to a socially acceptable condition.
4. To coordinate and collaborate with social entrepreneurs, NGOs, and individual artist/s.
B. METHODOLOGY
The immersion process shall maintain the following methods as a guide to future developments:
Community Exposures – the Faculty members together with the students of the PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities will conduct activities, such as but not limited to, home visits; and social mapping. Likewise, the students will also have the opportunity to view such actual situations and, thus, help them in their analysis of society as a first step towards providing responsive delivery of needed services.
Focus Group Discussion – the community leaders will be gathered to discuss the concerns and issues encountered while working on the community project. They will be motivated to find the solution to their problems in a dialogical and inclusive process.
Capacity Building – the PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities has the competence in strategizing holistic programs that will provide sectoral empowerment. Trainings and workshops shall be conducted in their areas or PUP premises.
Evaluation – After each activity, an assessment shall be conducted in the community to determine responsiveness and identify opportunities.
Impact Assessment – At the end of three (3) years the PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities will conduct the impact assessment of the entire project.
Report Writing – The Project Leader of the Community Extension of the PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities shall submit the annual report for updating and make a tracer study of all the activities conducted for future use. Further, a terminal report on its third year of partnership shall be crafted and conveyed to the community.
C. WORK PLAN A.Y 2019 - 2020
Year 2 – SY 2020 – 2021
Year 3 - SY 2021 – 2022
D. LINE ITEM BUDGET
E. PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY
The PUP Department of Philosophy and Humanities’ project has multiple activities that needed thorough monitoring of activities throughout the duration of the project. Empowering the area leaders by training them to become Co-Organizers will be a great help in monitoring various projects. Empowerment creates responsible people, self-reliant, and community oriented. They aim to attain sustainability of the projects that will develop their economic condition in the community. It would be a process of turning the people from a liability into an asset in their community using a proactive approach.
LIST OF ADEQUATE AND RELAVANT PROJECTS/ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE GOALS
The COVID-19 Pandemic is a health crisis that wrought varying levels of constraints and limitations on the mobility of people, goods, and services. Viewed from its nature, extension programs involve interaction and close dealings between various segments of the population, hence, are not spared by the said crisis.
Verily, any good project must be permanent, prospective, and should also be flexible. Prospective means anticipating years of related and well-organized efforts that both follow and make a long-term trend but prudence and experience demands that particular items will need to be changed to meet unforeseen contingencies or emergencies such as the crisis at hand. Without flexibility, the project may not meet the needs of the people. Further, a program or service should be prepared well in advance of its execution. However, common, and extraordinary events may subject it to delay or change in part though not in total. Thusly, it is obvious that an extension project must be kept flexible, and inevitably repurposing, to meet the changing needs and interests of the people.
Overall Projects’ Objective
To extend and implement responsive programs as ascertained by the people and for the people of the community. Further, as a result of the emergence of unforeseen, or though foreseen but is inevitable, events, the exercise of prudence that animates flexibility and repurposing becomes incumbent upon the program implementers thereby pooling and rechanneling the latter’s immediate resources. More specifically, there is a need to come and aid extension partners who are members of indigent communities affected by the global health crisis.
Pre-projects Condition
Community members’ day-to-day activities were viewed with normalcy, “normal” in the sense that people label their daily undertakings in a pre-pandemic scenario. These activities range from personal to social and political acts that seek to affect the community in general the conduct of which seems almost inconceivable at present.
Anticipated Outcome
In extending aid and relief to the vulnerable and affected, recipients may, thereafter, direct their attention to providing for their other necessities since less money is spent on antiseptic/disinfectants and grocery items. Additionally, the projects may be expected to enhance the awareness level on the part of the recipients in terms of personal care and hygiene.
Meeting with Brgy. Kap. Danilo San Bueno
September 25, 2020
Turned-over of relief goods to Chairman Danilo San Bueno, Barangay 365, Zone 64, District VI Sta. Mesa, Manila
Barangay Assembly Day November 28, 2020 organized by Barangay Chairman Danilo San Bueno and Council with special participation of Ms. Jennifer Yariza and some Faculty from the Department of Humanities and Philosophy
The partnership of Barangay 635, Zone 64, District VI with Community Extension Program of the Department of Humanities and Philosophy was recognized by giving of certificates during their Barangay Assembly on November 28, 2020.
The Center for Environmental Studies (CES) of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines conducted the webinar entitled “The Rise of Urban Agriculture during the Pandemic” last November 18, 2020, via Zoom Cloud Meetings in celebration of the PUP Environmental Consciousness Week.
The said webinar is all about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that pertain to food security. The pandemic has brought all walks of life to feel the crisis—the scarcity of food. Thus, speakers invited were from the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute, Sibolng Agham at Teknolohiya (SIBAT), and from Villa Berde Food Forest Farm to share their knowledge in the 2.5-hour long webinar
Webinar on “The Rise of Urban Agriculture during the Pandemic” on November 18, 2020 @2PM via Zoom Cloud Meetings