The Department of Education (DepEd), Division of Kalinga supports Project We Advocate Time Consciousness and Honesty (WATCH) as mandated in Administrative Order No. 225, s. 2009.
After a series of advocacies to the Local Government Units and to other non-government agencies, the Division WATCH Advocates urge all elementary and secondary schools in the province to establish their WATCH school under the advisorship of the Career Guidance Designates and the Values Education Departments.
Pursuant to Deped Memo No. 410, s. 2010 on the Guidelines of the Establishment of a WATCH School, JCI Senate Philippines shall conduct an annual search for the Best WATCH School Implementer. But, there shall be division and regional searches prior to the national level search.
Romulo Galnawan, Chief of Curriculum Implementation Division, expressed imperatively during the initial information dissemination, targeting the division office personnel to start implementing the project in the division office foremost.
“Do not think that we cannot do it; we have to implement it and we have to start it in our office,” Galnawan said.
Project WATCH is a joint Values advocacy movement of the JCI Senate Philippines with JCI Senator Cesar Ochoa as the Founding Chairman, Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), TechnicalEducation and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU). It is a program that aims to restore back and strengthen the values of punctuality and honesty among the youth and government workers.