NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY CHAPTER 7: RESOURCE GENERATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY The Government shall harness the Philippines’ human resource as a great source of national power and a key driver of economic growth. Aside from people, other factors that are vital to the success of the NSP include the legal framework for national security, defense spending and modernization, and strategic industries for sustainability and self-sufficiency. HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT The Government must invest in our youth and make good education accessible to them by building more schools, improving the public school system and teacher education, and revitalizing technical and vocational centers and institutes. School curricula should be harmonized with the needs of development and nation-building. The Government shall invest in science and technology education and promote the necessary technological and industrial skills for the country’s development; foster nationalism and patriotism; promote individual development and self-fulfillment; and inculcate good moral and socio-ethical values. The Government shall also revisit policies on a number of foreign educated Filipinos whose careers are stalled when they seek for opportunities back here in the country. In the national security sector, developing the human capital should be an important area of continuing reform and professionalization. The National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP), the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC), the Foreign Service Institute and other military and police training schools, and government think tanks shall collaborate among themselves to build up and expand the pool of national security practitioners in the country. The NDCP and PPSC shall be primarily responsible for training competent policy analysts, security planners and intelligence officers, and for training future generations of national security leaders and managers. LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR NATIONAL SECURITY The Government must work towards the enactment of appropriate legislations to address the country’s increasingly complex national security challenges and protect the nation’s interests. One such legislation is the proposed National Security Act that will Strengthen the Organization for National Security, revitalize the system for unified coordination among the members of the security community, and provide the legal basis for the formulation and integration of the NSP and National Security Strategy (NSS). The Government will work with Congress to attain the passage of this proposed law. 26|Page