PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR In partnership with JH CERILLES STATE COLLEGE Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report MAY 2018 Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report An initiative that aims to address the needs and challenges of every individual in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur who are deserving and willing to pursue tertiary education regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, and belief. Spearheaded by the provincial government of Zamboanga del Sur, this is in partnership with JH Cerilles State College. May 2018 Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report Initiative Title Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation time frame - April 2018 – May 2018 - Report dated 30th of July 2018 Location of the Initiative Evaluation - Province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, Southeast Asia Implementing Partners - Josefina Herrera Cerilles State College - Local Government Units of Zamboanga del Sur Evaluation Team Members Meriline B. Locson, MS Connie F. Abang, MAGD Mary Jocelyn V. Battung, Ph.D. Lindley L. Herra, MS Myrna G. Jala, MAEd Mary dela Torre, EdD Organization Commissioning the Evaluation - Provincial Government of Zamboanga del Sur Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report Acknowledgements The evaluators would like to sincerely thank all individuals and entities that spent time to participate in interviews, discussions and meetings with the evaluation team and generously contributed their valuable views and opinions on the activities and impacts of this initiative during the course of the evaluation that took place on April 16 – May 14 2018. They provided valuable information and insights on the initiative, cited abundant examples and details for the evaluation team to easily understand, assess and verify activities, results and impacts. The evaluation team values their continuous cooperation and assistance during subsequent contacts for clarifications and/or additional information. The team is particularly grateful for the many opportunities for open and frank discussions, and the willingness and readiness of the stakeholders to provide comments and suggestions to see to the success and long term sustainability of the initiative. Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report Table of Contents Acknowledgements v Table of Contents vi List of Tables viii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ix I. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT 1 II. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES 1 III. METHODOLOGY 1 IV. BACKGROUNDER 2 V. OUTPUTS / OUTCOME 3 a. Establishment of Community Colleges as 3 Extensions of JHCSC b. Equipping of the faculty and staff 4 c. Program Offerings 5 d. Enrollment 5 e. Graduates 7 VI. IMPACTS 8 a. Increase Employment 8 b. Poverty Alleviation 9 c. Peace and Security 11 VII. LESSONS LEARNED 12 VIII. ANNEXES 13 A. Log Frame 14 B. Monitoring and Evaluation Matrix 17 C. SP Resolution No. 2K7 - 058 20 D. SP Resolution No. 647 - 2017 21 E. SP Resolution No. 2K16 - 1174 22 F. Enrolment Report 25 G. Graduates Headcount Report 26 H. JH Cerilles State College History 27 Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report I. Faculty Profile 29 J. Zamboanga del Sur Quick Stat as June 2018 30 K. 2014 - 2017 Zamboanga del Sur Crime Index 35 L. Poverty Index 40 M. List of Public and Private Institutions 42 N. PNP/AFP/DILG Joint Declaration of Peace and 44 Order Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report List of Tables Number Title Page 1 JHCSC Average Enrolment 6 2 JHCSC Average Number of Enrolees 7 3 JHCSC Number of Graduates 8 4 2006 – 2015 Zamboanga del Sur Poverty Incidence 9 5 2006 – 2015 Zamboanga del Sur Income Gao 10 6 2006 – 2015 Severity of Poverty in Zamboanga del 10 Sur Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report Acronyms and Abbreviations ZDS Zamboanga del Sur JHCSC Josefina Herrera Cerilles State College LGU Provincial Local Government Unit ESU External Studies Unit PNP Philippine National Police AFP Armed Forces of the Philippines DILG Department of Interior and Local Government s Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Evaluation Report I. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep Program aims to bring quality and affordable public college education to all the youth in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, especially those belonging to the vulnerable sectors, the poor farming families in the countryside including the indigenous people. Under the guidance of the provincial government of Zamboanga del Sur and supervision of the JH Cerilles State College (JHCSC) management board, which serve as partners of this program, the 26 tertiary community colleges have since been established and run in all the localities of the province. They address the educational needs of the students that could hardly afford the cost of private education, as well as the cost of transportation and board and lodging. Because of this program, thousands of vulnerable youths are given access to education and chance to graduate in college, in order to become professionals, get a decent job and eventually uplift themselves from poverty. II. EVALUATION OBJECTIVES The evaluation aims to assess the Program’s achievement of results and impact, sustainability, and lessons learnt. This assessment has been done in order to provide feedback to the program implementors in order to guide them on how to improve the program and how to continue building up the capacity of student youths in the province thru public tertiary education. Secondly, this evaluation is meant to inform all benefactor-stakeholders of the program that provided funding and material support about the results of their assistance to the program. This information will be their basis to keep trusting and supporting the program. Lastly, this evaluation also seeks to inform other groups, especially local governments that intend to conduct similar program so that they may also learn from the lessons of program implementation. These lessons may guide them to initiate similar program. This study may also be used as a project-related literature or reference material that other groups can use for their own studies. III. METHODOLOGY The evaluation was undertaken by a team of internal evaluators commissioned by the Provincial Government of Zamboanga del Sur. In realizing the aforementioned objectives of the evaluation, the evaluation team relied on a participatory evaluation framework that entailed four inter-related and complementary evaluation tools used to gather information Re-engineering Education: Education at the Doorstep 1 Evaluation Report from different sources regarding the performance of the Project. These tools essentially included documents/literature review, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, focus group meetings with teachers, parents and students and alumni, as well as a final validation workshop. IV. BACKGROUNDER Being part of a third world country with an agrarian economy, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, just like other provinces of the country in the periphery, is mostly populated by poor farming families including the indigenous people in particular the Subanen tribe. Most of them struggle to meet their basic needs, as they live below the poverty threshold pegged by the national government at around $173. The adult population among them rely their income mostly from their agricultural work, but their produce are not enough to satisfy their economic needs. The farming families are even getting poorer as time goes by, as chemical agriculture causes their farm to be less productive, and inflation shrinks the value of their income over the years. This situation generally paints a bleak future that is why most of the youths do not find hope in the farming profession. Thus, only a few of them have interest to pursue a farming profession and take agricultural courses in college, if ever they get access to tertiary education. In spite of this grim situation, school-age youth, who comprise around 30% of the farming families, provide hope for the farming sector. They are young and still have the idealism and drive to pursue the promise of a better future. They only need to be capacitated to pursue their dream. Capacitating the young generation to become productive members of society and raise their income is the key to uplift the farming families from poverty. The best way to capacitate them is to give them access to quality education until they become professionals and economically productive. It is on this promising note that JH Cerilles State College (JHCSC) was built. Before the establishment of the JHCSC, tertiary education institutions in Zamboanga del Sur were almost all found only in the urban center of Pagadian City, the capital of the province. Most of them were private colleges, except two public colleges which were later absorbed by JHCSC, as the law provides that there should be only one state college in a province. Most of the youth of poor farming families, who are living outside the city and in one of the 26 municipalities of the province, could hardly access tertiary education then, as they could neither afford to pay the cost of private tertiary education nor shoulder