As a
proactive move to maximize this opportunity and with our desire to make Cagayan
de Oro a leading city for youth empowerment innovation, the core group of the
OYDC (created by E.O. 72-2014) proposes this local legislation designed to
enhance and maximize youth participation in local governance.
Here are its basic features:
1.
Creation
of the Oro Youth Development Office. This office basically serves as the
coordinating and monitoring office for local youth concerns as articulated in
the local youth development plan and sits as the secretariat for the Oro Youth
Development Council.
2.
Institutionalization
of the OYDC. The OYDC would now be a formal body within the government
structure. It is composed or 21 members as provided for in the SK Reform Law.
The law further provides that the SK are only allotted two seats in the
council. The 19 others are allotted for youth organizations and youth serving
organizations (youth sectors). The ordinance seeks to implement a
sectoral-based representation in the OYDC. Here are the allocations:
a.
Three (3) from the In School youth sector
b.
Three (3) from the out of school youth sector
c.
Three (3) from the faith-based youth sector
d.
Three (4) from the special advocacy based youth sector
e.
Three (3) from community – based youth
f.
Three (3) from cultural identity- based youth
g.
Two (2) from the SK
3.
Creation
of the Sectoral Chairmanship – The SK Law Mandates that the SK President
would chair the OYDC. By virtue of the principle of local autonomy, the
ordinance wishes to create a co-chairmanship. The Sectoral Chairperson (SC)
shall be elected from the 19 youth representatives in the OYDC who shall
co-chair with the SK President. The (SC) can call a meeting but with the
concurrence of the SK President. The SK President shall generally preside over
the meetings. The SC will have a term of one year and such election will be
held during the yearly Oro Youth Leaders Convergence.
4.
Institutionalization
of the Oro Youth Leaders Convergence. – the ordinance mandates the yearly
convergence of all youth organization in the city. This is the venue where the
OYDC officers can report their accomplishments and draw out recommendations and
partnerships from various youth stakeholders.
5.
Appointment
of SK alternative representatives in the various city committees and bodies.
– The ordinance allows youth representation in the various city committees
coming from the SK and Sectoral representatives.
6.
Creation
of the various youth sectors:
a)
Out-of-School-Youth shall refers to all youth
of school age, whether organized or not, who are unable to avail of the formal
school system or who have dropped out from formal elementary, secondary,
tertiary and vocational education.
b)
In-School Youth shall refer to all youth
of school age, whether organized or not, presently enrolled with any
educational, vocational institution, which include but not limited to the
following school organizations (academic or non-academic), student government,
fraternities and sororities;
c)
Special Advocacy-Based Youth shall refer to any youth organization whose primary
purpose is to serve youth with special needs namely, youth with disabilities,
youth in situations of armed conflict, victims of natural disaster and
calamities, youth offenders, delinquent youth, LGBT youth, drug depended youth,
street youth, abused/exploited youth and abandoned/neglected youth;
d)
Faith-based Youth shall refer to all youth organizations organized under the rules and
regulations of a religious institution and recognize by such. Its members are
also exclusive members of the said church/sect/religious denomination.
e)
The Cultural Identity-based youth shall refers to youth organizations whose primary
purpose is to advance the cultural identity of the Moro and Indigenous peoples.
f)
Community Youth
Organizations shall refers to organizations whose majority of membership are youth
and might be based in educational institution but whose program are not solely
for educational advancement or may be community based whose members are not all
out-of-school youth.
