SCHOLARSHIP AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

About SYDP

Quezon City Council Resolution No.NC-577, S-91: Resolution approving the “Quezon City Government scholarship program” and its implementing guidelines created a scholarship program for tertiary education to poor but deserving students of Quezon City. The program was then under the Office of the City Mayor’s Education Coordinating Council. In 1992 the program was named Scholarship and Youth Development Program and became a separate office but still remained under the Office of the City Mayor.

In 2001 under the leadership of the Hon. City Mayor Feliciano R. Belmonte Jr. SYDP was tasked to empower the youth by increasing the beneficiaries of the scholarship and promote youth active participation in governance by providing venues for capability building.

Consequently the number of scholars accommodated by the program increased by 1,600% from 211 in 1991 to 750 scholars in 2001 it has reached 12,384 scholars in 2008. The program reached its highest number of scholars accommodated in its history.

In parallel development the City is strengthening the Quezon City Polytechnic University; a logical step towards opening more opportunities to quality education for the City youth while maximizing the City resources. This is under the foundation that the program should primarily be in unity with the City University in terms of providing access to quality education to all City residents. In response to this the SYDP provided scholarship to QCPU students. QCPU became the biggest beneficiary of the program with more than 80% of SYDP’s budget allocated to them.

In addition to this the City thru SYDP provided venue to help the academically excellent tertiary students and future youth leaders attain their fullest potentials. Because of this the SYDP not only attained its general objectives but effectively and efficiently used its resources toward serving the City youth and attaining the vision for a Quality Community for all thus, the increased of financial subsidies to Valedictorian and Salutatorians. This is the highlight of the 2008 guidelines for scholarship.

However, while QCPU is in its journey towards a more competitive academic institution there are strong clamour from a number of deserving youth and other sectors who wants to take up courses that are not available in QCPU.

And on its 20th years of providing scholarship; the City under the leadership of the Hon. Herbert M. Bautista is gearing towards new priorities and thrust expanding the number of beneficiaries targeting other beneficiaries to provide help to the most marginalized and qualified sector of our City. SYDP is making new history while remaining true to its origin “Empowering the Youth Thru Scholarship and Capability Building”.

Click here for Guidelines for awarding of Scholarships (revised 2011)