After several attempts of including Community eCenter (CeC) program to Annual Investment Plan (AIP), it was finally accommodated when the Committee of Appropriation of Sangguniang Bayan (Municipal Council) acted on its proposal during public hearing for the adoption of AIP 2012.
When CeC-Naujan had its beginning in the 3rd Quarter of 2010 as eSkwela (or eLearning) of Alternative Learning System (ALS) , it has no fund available. Unlike most government programs that do not commence without a ready budget, this one operated at the outset with no initial funding. Its operations were made possible only through the following:
- ALS-eSkwela is an inter-agency project of Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), Department of Education (DepEd) and the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Naujan. All three (3) agencies contributed in-kind resources such as computers and softwares (CICT), curriculum and implementation/supervision (DepEd) and frontline staff, management and sustainability of supplies (LGU).
- The program was immediately lodged in the Municipal Government of Naujan for sustainability through Aids and Donations budget in the Office of the Municipal Mayor.
- Involvement of private entities were solicited for cooperative resource generation and co-ownership of the program.
Though operations were possible, they were good only for start-ups due to resource restraints. In terms of addressing the entire crisis of the out-of-school youth and adults (OSYAs) in Naujan, existing ALS eSkwela operations are not sustainable. There has to be an action to integrate ALS-eSkwela to the regular programs of the Municipal Government of Naujan. And that was by including the program to AIP. Thus a new program was born in 2012 in the family of local government unit (LGU) of Naujan.
