Proposals for Employers and Businesses

1.       Encourage more employers and businesses to receive early notification of their employees' In-Camp Training call-ups through the NS portal.

2.       Encourage recognition of employees' skill sets by providing performance feedback of employees who undergo Leadership Training Courses during NS.

3.       Introduce the "NS mark" to recognise supportive employers, businesses and organisations supportive of NS, and engender broad based support for NS.

4.       Implement the revamped Total Defence Awards to recognise supportive individuals and organisations, and strengthen advocacy for NS.

5.       Enhance new companies' and Human Resource practitioners' understanding of NS policies through NS Awareness Seminars.

6.       Collaborate with the business community to organise enhanced career fairs to assist NSFs' transition to the workforce.

Proposals for Families and the Community

7.       Partner women organisations to engage women (mothers, wives, young women) and raise their awareness, understanding and support for Total Defence and NS through information sharing and small group engagement sessions.

8.       Partner community organisations and small businesses to recognise the contribution of NSFs and NSmen by offering benefits and discounts.

9.       Collaborate with Families for Life to create support for NS among families of NSFs and NSmen by raising their awareness of NS and national defence matters.

10.       Partner Integration and Naturalisation Champions from People's Association, and work with associations and clans to reach out to New Citizens and Permanent Residents so as to raise their awareness, understanding and support for national defence and NS.

11.       Work with Ministry of Social and Family Development to support NSFs who require financial assistance beyond their full-time NS.

Proposals for Educational Institutions

12.       Review programmes currently available for Returning NSmen to better support their transition back to Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) after NS.

13.       Partner IHLs to help NSmen manage their NS ICT call-ups and academic commitments.

14.       Encourage the broader community to contribute to national defence by joining the SAF Volunteer Corps (SAFVC), and groom SAFVC Volunteers to become ambassadors for the SAFVC.

15.       Partner MOE and Singapore Discovery Centre to create a Total Defence cohort experience for Primary Six students.

16.       Strengthen engagement of secondary school students on National Education issues through alumni and staff who are better able to identify and connect with students from their school.

17.       Implement in Post-Secondary Education Institutions a pilot programme to build up the fitness of their pre-enlistee students prior to full-time NS.

18.       Work with Foreign Systems Schools and Privately Funded Institutions to organise engagement sessions for pre-enlistees and parents to raise their awareness, understanding and support for NS and national defence.