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|agency_name = Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore |
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|budget = $1.83 billion [[SGD]] (Estimated FY2011)<ref name="MCYS">{{cite web|title = Head I: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports|work =Budget 2011: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates|publisher =Ministry of Finance|date =2011-03|url =http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/budget_2011/revenue_expenditure/attachment/15%20MCYS%20EE2011.pdf|format =PDF|accessdate =2011-04-05 }}</ref> |
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|headquarters = MCYS Building, 512 Thomson Road, Singapore 298136 |
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|minister1_name = [[Vivian Balakrishnan]] |
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|minister2_name = [[Yu-Foo Yee Shoon]] |
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The '''Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports''' ([[Abbreviation]]: '''MCYS'''; [[Simplified Chinese|Chinese]]: 社会发展、青年与体育部; {{lang-ms|Kementerian Pembangunan Komuniti, Belia dan Sukan}}) is a [[ministry (government department)|ministry]] of the [[Government of Singapore]] |
The '''Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports''' ([[Abbreviation]]: '''MCYS'''; [[Simplified Chinese|Chinese]]: 社会发展、青年与体育部; {{lang-ms|Kementerian Pembangunan Komuniti, Belia dan Sukan}}) is a [[ministry (government department)|ministry]] of the [[Government of Singapore]] tasked with, from the government's point of view, building a "cohesive and resilient" [[society]] in [[Singapore]]. |
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==Mission Statement== |
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To build a Cohesive and Resilient Society by fostering :- |
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*Socially Responsible Individuals |
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*Inspired and Committed Youth |
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*Strong and Stable Families |
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*A Caring and Active Community |
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*A Sporting People |
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==Values== |
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'''We are Professionals''' |
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We uphold integrity and excel in everything we do. |
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'''with Passion''' |
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We are committed and strongly believe in what we do. |
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'''for People''' |
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We respect the individual and help him to help himself. |
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We seek win-win partnerships. |
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==Policy on Socially Responsible Individuals== |
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Working closely with the community and partners, the Ministry: |
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# Ensures the young in our society grow up in a safe environment so that they can develop their full potential to become socially responsible adults. |
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# Enables people with disabilities integrate into the community by offering services and programmes to those with disabilities and involving members of our community in the process. |
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# Helps youths-at-risk and rehabilitates juvenile offenders so that they can become self-reliant and reintegrated back into society as socially responsible individuals. |
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# Encourages seniors to stay healthy and practise active ageing so that they can continue to be self-reliant, care for themselves and their families and also play an active role in society. |
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==Policy on Youth== |
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# '''Youth Have a Say''' in national and community affairs. By consulting them on issues and recognising their contributions, youth will be more engaged in the community and have a greater sense of belonging. |
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# '''Youth Plant a Stake''' in society. By getting the youth actively involved in the community so that they develop into young citizens with a sense of ownership towards society. |
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# '''Youth Get Support''' to realise their potential, develop their talents and pursue their dreams. By supporting our youth so that they are able to contribute meaningfully to our society. |
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==Policy on Families== |
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MCYS seeks to create an environment where families are celebrated, encouraged, supported and strengthened. The following are the main strategies to achieve this vision: |
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The MCYS often pursues vigourous top-down [[social engineering]] campaigns of varying effectiveness and is partially responsible as the source of posters for top-down indoctrinative campaigns in Singaporean schools and in the wider communities, encouraging traditional and conservative "[[Asian values]]" and [[neoconfucianism]], prizing deference to the state and authority over [[individual liberty]]. However, it also tries to encourage widespread youth participation constructive social activity such as sport or the arts, a reversal from Singaporean education and civic policy from the 1960s to 1980s that de-emphasised the humanities and sport participation in favour of technical pursuits like science. It also tries to encourage acceptance of individual differences among youth. |
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# Promoting and facilitating marriages and parenthood |
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# Strengthening marriages and families |
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# Cultivating a family-matters culture |
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While sometimes ridiculed by the youth it attempts to reach out to for its interventionist policies in increasing Singapore's falling birth rate or encouraging [[marriage]] for instance, it also has produced popular media campaigns. Its three-minute [[short film]] promoting [[filial piety]], in using more subtle and indirect artistic techniques compared to previous decades' campaigns, found local critical success and won MediaCorp's Viwer's Choice gold award and caused the page "Filial Piety" to receive over 40,000 likes on [[facebook]]. |
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==Policy on Community== |
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Working closely with partners and the community, the Ministry: |
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# Promotes volunteerism, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. |
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# Strengthens inter-racial and inter-religious confidence |
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# Encourages active citizenry and public feedback |
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# Fosters community integration |
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# Supports community self-help |
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==Agenda and goals== |
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The MCYS seeks to make Singaporeans "socially responsible individuals", create "inspired and committed Youth" and is a ministry explicitly devoted towards [[family values]] ("strong and stable families"). It also seeks to create a "caring and active community" and to promote healthy, sportful lifestyles. It wishes to promote integration of people with disabilities into wider society, and prevent "youths-at-risk" from falling into [[social deliquency]]. It also tries to encourage seniors to practice "active aging". |
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The Ministry formulates and reviews national sports policies that help to achieve our vision. We also work with other Government departments to implement these policies. |
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It attempts to get youth involved in "national and community affairs," recognising that a perceived lack of voice among the youth has led to a greater sense of disbelonging and alienation from society and the government in general. It has created [[REACHSingapore]], but this has proven to be somewhat of a flop so far, because of the sterile reputation of top-down government campaigns, the reputation that civil servants and civic campaigns are dominated by [[groupthink]] and "yes-men," and because government policy has created a [[chilling effect]] with regards to inputs into official channels. The Ministry (along with the government in general) recognisess that feedback response is poor, but seems at a loss at how to effectively stimulate it. |
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MCYS envisions a sporting people where: |
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Although it tries to "strengthen inter-racial and inter-religious confidence," the ministry appears to favour the status quo of preserving interracial and intercultural barriers, instead of ambitiously seeking to disturb or demolish them. |
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# sports participation develops a resilient people with the virtues of perseverance, focus, discipline, teamwork, creativity, a drive to excel and a healthy lifestyle. |
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# sports bond people from various communities of our society. |
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# sports excellence enhances our national pride and international standing. |
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# a vibrant sports industry contributes to the economy and sustains the sports delivery system. |
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# sports help strengthen friendships with other nations. |
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==National Campaigns== |
==National Campaigns== |
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Jurisdiction | Government of Singapore |
Headquarters | MCYS Building, 512 Thomson Road, Singapore 298136 |
Employees | 1206(Estimated FY2011) [1] |
Annual budget | $1.83 billion SGD (Estimated FY2011)[1] |
Ministers responsible |
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Website | www |
The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (Abbreviation: MCYS; Chinese: 社会发展、青年与体育部; Malay: Kementerian Pembangunan Komuniti, Belia dan Sukan) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore tasked with, from the government's point of view, building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.
The MCYS often pursues vigourous top-down social engineering campaigns of varying effectiveness and is partially responsible as the source of posters for top-down indoctrinative campaigns in Singaporean schools and in the wider communities, encouraging traditional and conservative "Asian values" and neoconfucianism, prizing deference to the state and authority over individual liberty. However, it also tries to encourage widespread youth participation constructive social activity such as sport or the arts, a reversal from Singaporean education and civic policy from the 1960s to 1980s that de-emphasised the humanities and sport participation in favour of technical pursuits like science. It also tries to encourage acceptance of individual differences among youth.
While sometimes ridiculed by the youth it attempts to reach out to for its interventionist policies in increasing Singapore's falling birth rate or encouraging marriage for instance, it also has produced popular media campaigns. Its three-minute short film promoting filial piety, in using more subtle and indirect artistic techniques compared to previous decades' campaigns, found local critical success and won MediaCorp's Viwer's Choice gold award and caused the page "Filial Piety" to receive over 40,000 likes on facebook.
The incumbent minister is MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, Vivian Balakrishnan.
Agenda and goals
The MCYS seeks to make Singaporeans "socially responsible individuals", create "inspired and committed Youth" and is a ministry explicitly devoted towards family values ("strong and stable families"). It also seeks to create a "caring and active community" and to promote healthy, sportful lifestyles. It wishes to promote integration of people with disabilities into wider society, and prevent "youths-at-risk" from falling into social deliquency. It also tries to encourage seniors to practice "active aging".
It attempts to get youth involved in "national and community affairs," recognising that a perceived lack of voice among the youth has led to a greater sense of disbelonging and alienation from society and the government in general. It has created REACHSingapore, but this has proven to be somewhat of a flop so far, because of the sterile reputation of top-down government campaigns, the reputation that civil servants and civic campaigns are dominated by groupthink and "yes-men," and because government policy has created a chilling effect with regards to inputs into official channels. The Ministry (along with the government in general) recognisess that feedback response is poor, but seems at a loss at how to effectively stimulate it.
Although it tries to "strengthen inter-racial and inter-religious confidence," the ministry appears to favour the status quo of preserving interracial and intercultural barriers, instead of ambitiously seeking to disturb or demolish them.
National Campaigns
- "Filial Piety" in 2010
- "A Girl's Hope" in 2010
- "Beautifully Imperfect" in 2009
- "Family" in 2008
- "Excuses" in 2008
References
- ^ a b "Head I: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports" (PDF). Budget 2011: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance. 2011-03. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
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