August 5, 2024

2024 Villar Foundation Awards

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 6:02 pm

AWARDS MANAGEMENT

The AWARDS Program is manage by the Villar Foundation, a hub of advocacies, activities and
actions to help poor Filipinos.

Empowering the poor and underprivileged has been a key advocacy of the Villar Foundation
since it was established in 1995 by its Founding Chairman and Former Senate President Manny
Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar.

The Villar Foundation serves as home of all their efforts and endeavors in fulfilling their
advocacies. It is more than a showcase of the Villar’s past, present and future efforts to reduce
poverty in the country. It is a working hub and proactive center. Its name alone highlights and
promotes the value of hard work as a tool in overcoming poverty. The Villar Foundation will
guide, train, teach and empower womenfolk, the youth, jobless and even relatives of overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs) to uplift their lives as well as enhance their skills and know-how.

OBJECTIVES OF VILLAR FOUNDATION AWARDS

  1. To recognize outstanding initiatives of community enterprises as models of good practices in income poverty reduction;
  2. To document and share these outstanding initiatives through the Villar Foundation Poverty Knowledge Management Resource Center;
  3. To inspire exchange, transfer or adaption of these outstanding initiatives to other places in the country through action, research, capacity building, conferences and symposia, and
  4. To enhance capabilities in reducing poverty of women, youth cooperatives, farmers’ organizations and local governments.

THE AWARDS SCREENING AND SELECTION PROCESS

  1. The process starts with direct submission of application form and requirements needed from the community enterprise which shall be sent to [email protected] on or before October 15, 2024 with the subject “2024 VFA – [Name of Social Enterprise]”.
  2. Once submitted, the National Screening Committee (NSC) of the 2024 Villar Foundation Awards on Poverty Reduction will assess all submitted applications and come up with the Top 40 Community Enterprises.
  3. The Top 40 Community Enterprises will be scheduled for site validation by the National Screening Committee. Based from the site validation, the National Screening Committee will choose the Top 20 Community Enterprises and schedule them for the Final Interview.
  4. The Top 20 Community Enterprises will undergo a Final Interview wherein they will have a 10 minute presentation followed by the question and answer portion.
  5. After the final interview, the NSC members will deliberate on their preference for the 20 Most Outstanding Community Enterprise who will each receive a bamboo trophy and cash incentives of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P250,000.00) the cash incentives should be used to start a new enterprise or expand the existing enterprise.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING ELIGIBLE APLICANTS

The Community Enterprise:

SELECTION CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE FINALISTS AND AWARDEES

  1. EFFECTIVENESS – the degree to which the initiative has achieved tangible results like increase in household income or creation of jobs
  2. SIGNIFICANCE – the degree to which the program addresses the problem of income
    poverty in a community
  3. FINANCIAL VIABILITY – the degree to which the enterprise is able to generate its own
    income sufficient enough to meet its core operating expenses and financial obligations
    as well as being able to invest in its future growth and development
  4. SUSTAINABILITY – the degree to which the enterprise will continue to operate in the
    long term; being able to balance the need to generate income at the same being
    concerned about conservation, protection and restoration of the environment; having the
    organizational capacity to continue to achieve its enterprise goals;
  5. ADAPTABILITY – the degree to which the initiative or parts of it has been successfully
    adapted by others or shows promise of being adapted by others.
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April 15, 2024

5TH VILLAR SIPAG POVERTY REDUCTION CHALLENGE

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 3:43 pm

AWARDS MANAGEMENT

Empowering the poor and the underprivileged has been a key advocacy of the Villar SIPAG (Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance) since it was established in 1995 by its Founding Chairman and Former Senate President Manny Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar. The Villar SIPAG plays a key role in the foundation’s efforts to combat poverty among Filipinos.


The Villar SIPAG serves as home of all their efforts and endeavours in fulfilling their advocacies. It is more than a showcase of the Villar’s past, present, and future efforts to reduce poverty in the country. It is a working hub and a proactive center. Its name alone highlights and promotes the value of hard work as a tool in overcoming poverty. The Villar SIPAG will guide, train, teach, and empower womenfolk, the youth, jobless, and even relatives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to uplift their lives as well as enhance their skills and know-how.


The Villar SIPAG Awards aim to identify the Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprise organized by Filipino youth groups all over the country. Through this program, the Top 10 Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprises shall receive ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P150,000.00) cash prize to further help their projects and initiatives in alleviating the poverty situation in their respective communities.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Villar SIPAG Awards – Youth Poverty Reduction Challenge is a friendly competition among the Filipino youth whose social enterprises can contribute in alleviating the poverty situation in their respective communities. The participating groups who submit/nominate the most thought-provoking and well-reasoned social enterprise will take the cash prize. Ten (10) Most Outstanding Youth Social Enterprises shall be selected as winners. Each entry shall go through evaluation, comprehensive screenings and rational project defense. Entries will be judged and selected by a panel of social entrepreneurs and socio-civic specialists.

HOW TO JOIN

  1. Fill out the downloaded application form and send to [email protected] with the subject “2022 Youth Challenge – [Name of the Social Enterprise]” together with the completed summary of the social enterprise and other supporting documents, (if any). Your summary must be concise – minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 pages.
  2. To be considered, entries must include the following information: Group Name with each participant’s full name, age, birth dates, email address and contact number. Each group must have at least 2-3 youth members, whose ages fall between 16-29 years old, as of date of entry submission. We require a copy of authenticated birth certificates.
  3. All entries must be duly received by Villar SIPAG Secretariat. All decisions made by the judges are final and not subject to appeal.
  4. All entries that will pass the initial screening process will go through a site validation/ evaluation. If ANY false or misleading information has been submitted, the participant shall be disqualified even without prior notification.
  5. Only one unique social enterprise model entry per participating group.
  6. Punctuation, grammar, clarity, and organization will be considered during the evaluation process, as well as the quality of the ideas, sustainability of the project and should identify positions to justify that poverty reduction measures were met for their respective communities.
  7. There will be 10 winning entries. Each shall receive ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P150,000.00) cash prize.
  8. All products and services must conform to environment -protection standards; it should also address waste management measures in any given social enterprise set-up.
  9. Deadline of submission is until June 15, 2022.

ENTRY CONCENTRATION

JUDGING CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE FINALISTS AND AWARDEES

Originality & Uniqueness
Your social enterprise creatively demonstrates how it will solve the problem of poverty in your communityYou describe a unique product or service that is well-thought out and one-of-a-kind
25%
ADAPTABILITY
Your social enterprise must have the ability to respond flexibility in any given community situation
25%
SUSTAINABILITY
Your social enterprise addresses a sustainable need and how that need will be fulfilled
25%
COMMUNITY UPLIFTMENT
Your social enterprise helps in uplifting the conditions of poor and urban communities/ disadvantaged communities
25%
TOTAL100%
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7th Villar Foundation Youth Poverty Reduction Challenge

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 2:23 pm

Villar Foundation Youth Poverty Reduction Challenge

The future of any country lies on its young generation, whose visions and dreams have always served as rays of hope for a better, brighter and more promising tomorrow.

The Villar Foundation Youth Poverty Reduction Challenge, which was launched in 2017, is a friendly competition among Filipino youth through social enterprises designed to help alleviate the poverty situation in the country.

We believe that the Filipino youth can make a difference in bringing solution to the nation’s most pressing problem, which is poverty. In the competition, ten (10) Most Outstanding Social Enterprises with existing poverty alleviation programs will be named as winners. Each winner will be awarded with P150, 000 plus a trophy.

The Youth Poverty Reduction challenge is open to at group of at least 5 young people, 16 to 29 year old college students, out-of-school youth, young professionals, social enterprise groups, group of young entrepreneurs, youth organizations and other community associations.

The entries must be having been in operation for a minimum of one year and have a bank account in its name.

Each entry shall go through rigid evaluation, comprehensive screenings and rational project defense. Entries will be judged and selected by a panel of social entrepreneurs and socio-civic specialists.

Social enterprises should focus on, among others, food or agricultural products, recycling waste materials or agricultural waste products, green inventions/environment saving inventions/green technology, water/waste/energy solutions, rural and urban innovations, information technology and livelihood development.

All entries must conform to environment-protection standards and should also address waste management measures in any give social enterprise set-up.

Criteria:

  1. Originality and uniqueness, 25 percent. The social enterprises must be able to creatively demonstrate how they solve the poverty problem in their communities.
  2. Adaptability or the ability of the enterprise to respond with flexibly in any given community situation, where others in the same situation can emulate/replicate, 25%.
  3. Sustainability or how social enterprises address a need and eradicate/solve such need, 25%.
  4. Community upliftment or how the social enterprise will help in making better the conditions of the poor and disadvantaged communities, 25 percent.

Judges will review all submitted entries and will select at least 20 entries in the Initial Screening Process. The semi-finalists will then undergo site evaluation and social enterprise model analysis and defense.

The 10 Most Outstanding entries will be picked from the list of semi-finalists. The winners will be selected based on the ratings by the Judges. All decisions of the Judges are final and non-appealable.

The Villar SIPAG office will start accepting entries starting April 15, 2024 until May 30, 2024.

Awarding Ceremony shall be in July 2024.

Application forms for the competition can be downloaded from the Villar Foundation website (www.villarsipag.org). Accomplished forms should be sent to [email protected].

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2023 Villar SIPAG Awards on Poverty Reduction

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 1:50 pm

AWARDS MANAGEMENT

The AWARDS Program is manage by the Villar SIPAG (Social Institute for Poverty
Alleviation and Governance), a hub of advocacies, activities and actions to help poor
Filipinos.


Empowering the poor and underprivileged has been a key advocacy of the Villar
Foundation since it was established in 1995 by its Founding Chairman and Former
Senate President Manny Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar. The Villar SIPAG plays a key
role in the foundation’s efforts to combat poverty among Filipinos.


The Villar SIPAG serves as home of all their efforts and endeavors in fulfilling their
advocacies. It is more than a showcase of the Villar’s past, present and future efforts to
reduce poverty in the country. It is a working hub and proactive center. Its name alone
highlights and promotes the value of hard work as a tool in overcoming poverty. The
Villar SIPAG will guide, train, teach and empower womenfolk, the youth, jobless and
even relatives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to uplift their lives as well as
enhance their skills and know-how.

OBJECTIVES OF VILLAR SIPAG AWARDS

  1. To recognize outstanding initiatives of community enterprises as models of good
    practices in income poverty reduction;
  2. To document and share these outstanding initiatives through the Villar SIPAG
    Poverty Knowledge Management Resource Center;
  3. To inspire exchange, transfer or adaption of these outstanding initiatives to other
    places in the country through action, research, capacity building, conferences
    and symposia, and
  4. To enhance capabilities in reducing poverty of women, youth cooperatives,
    farmers’ organizations and local governments.

THE AWARDS SCREENING AND SELECTION PROCESS

  1. The process starts with direct submission of application form and requirements
    needed from the community enterprise which shall be sent
    to [email protected] on or before November 2023 with the
    subject “2023 VSA – [Name of Social Enterprise]”.
  2. Once submitted, the National Screening Committee (NSC) of the 2023 Villar
    Sipag Awards on Poverty Reduction will assess all submitted applications and
    come up with the Top 40 Community Enterprises.
  3. The Top 40 Community Enterprises will be scheduled for site validation by the
    National Screening Committee. Based from the site validation, the National
    Screening Committee will choose the Top 20 Community Enterprises and
    schedule them for the Final Interview.
  4. The Top 20 Community Enterprises will undergo a Final Interview wherein they
    will have a 10 minute presentation followed by the question and answer portion.
  5. After the final interview, the NSC members will deliberate on their preference for
    the 20 Most Outstanding Community Enterprise who will each receive a bamboo
    trophy and cash incentives of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS
    (P250,000.00). the cash incentives should be used to start a new enterprise or
    expand the existing enterprise.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

The Community Enterprise:

SELECTION CRITERIA AS BASIS FOR DETERMINING THE FINALISTS AND AWARDEES

  1. EFFECTIVENESS – the degree to which the initiative has achieved tangible
    results like increase in household income or creation of jobs
  2. SIGNIFICANCE – the degree to which the program addresses the problem of
    income poverty in a community
  3. FINANCIAL VIABILITY – the degree to which the enterprise is able to generate
    its own income sufficient enough to meet its core operating expenses and
    financial obligations as well as being able to invest in its future growth and
    development
  4. SUSTAINABILITY – the degree to which the enterprise will continue to operate
    in the long term; being able to balance the need to generate income at the same
    being concerned about conservation, protection and restoration of the
    environment; having the organizational capacity to continue to achieve its
    enterprise goals;
  5. ADAPTABILITY – the degree to which the initiative or parts of it has been
    successfully adapted by others or shows promise of being adapted by others.
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April 12, 2024

Villar SIPAG Awards’ Most Outstanding and Most Promising Community Enterprises

Filed under: Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation & Governance (SIPAG) — Jomar Balasbas @ 6:18 pm
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