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Sangguniang Kabataan ("youth council" in English), commonly known as SK, was a youth council in each barangay in the Philippines, before being put "on hold", but not quite abolished, prior to the 2013 barangay elections. The council represented teenagers from 15 to 17 years old who have resided in their barangay for at least six months and registered to vote. It was the local youth legislature in the village and therefore led the local youth program and projects of the government. The Sangguniang Kabataan was an offshoot of the KB or the ''Kabataang Barangay'' (Village Youth) which was abolished when the Local Government Code of 1991 was enacted. The author eventually wanted to abolish SK because of allegations that this organization faces. The SK Chairman led the Sangguniang Kabataan council. The Kagawads, or councilors, approved resolutions and appropriated the money allotted to the council. The Chairman automatically sat on the barangay council as ex officio member and was automatically chairman of the Committee on Youth and Sports, one of the standing committees in the village council. Every Sangguniang Kabataan was federated into municipal and city federations, then city and municipal federations were federated into a provincial federation. A barangay's SK Chairman represented the barangay in the municipal or city federation. The presidents of the city and municipal federation were, in turn, members of the provincial or metropolitan federations, which elected their own president as well. The presidents of highly urbanized and independent component cities (Metropolitan Federation) and the provincial federations composed the membership in the national federation. They elected the national federation president who automatically sat on the National Youth Commission. Since 1992, there have been three simultaneous nationwide SK elections held in the Philippines which each term lasting from three to five years due to amendment of the regular 3-year term of the council. Members of the SK received payment for serving on the council. Under the Local Government Code, only the SK Chairman received money but in some areas the practice was that the chairman shared his payment with other members of the SK council.〔 In one barangay, each SK member received 500 pesos per month from the chairman.〔 ==History== The SK developed out of the Kabataang Barangay, established during martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos.〔 Marcos established the KB in 1975 to give youth a chance to be involved in community affairs and to provide the government means to inform youth of the government's development efforts. His daughter Imee Marcos was chairman.〔 Controversy surrounded the KB, including the enforcement of authoritarian rule among youth, opposition of militant youth activity, and the KB's failure to develop youth as a responsive collective. Since then, the KB grew less popular among youth and instead student activism became the trend in youth participation in the country. In June 1986, a study was conducted on the KB and came up with the following recommendations: abolish the KB; create a National Youth Commission (NYC); establish a National Youth Assembly; and set up genuine youth representation in government. Youth consultations were held, and the KB was abolished by the government. However, then-president Corazon Aquino have already established the Presidential Council for Youth Affairs (PCYA) instead of NYC, which was successful in coordinating with the youth federations to develop future national leaders, but lacked the powers envisioned for the NYC because PCYA merely coordinated with youth groups. A proposal was then crafted by the Congress youth representatives and PCYA's technical committee in 1989 to 1990. The proposal that created the Katipunan ng Kabataan (KK) and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) was incorporated into the 1991 Local Government Code (known as Local Autonomy Law or Republic Act 7160). It formally abolished the KB and created the KK and SK. The KK includes all Filipino citizens, age 15 to 18 years, residing in each barangay for at least six months and are registered in the official barangay list. The SK is the governing body of the KK, a set of youth leaders elected by the KK members to represent them and deliver youth-focused services in the barangay. The age range of the youth eligible for the KK and SK was reduced to 15 to below 18 due to the change in Republic Act 9164 in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sangguniang Kabataan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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