Regional Stakeholders' Consultation

Post date: Oct 15, 2016 4:01:04 AM

A very well-attended Regional Stakeholders’ Consultation conducted by TESDA Region VIII at the Ritz Tower de Leyte, Tacloban City on October 4, 2016 (Tuesday). A total of 151 participants attended. The consultation which served as a venue to engage the stakeholders in making the 2017-2022 tech-voc reform and development agenda more relevant and attainable brought together key stakeholders from the industry, sectoral groups, local government units, academe, tech-voc institutions, non-government organizations (international and local), national government agencies and other TVET partners in the region to discuss what priority skills are needed by the industries and communities and what program interventions they can recommend.

The Stakeholders’ Consultation was made more significant with the presence of TESDA Secretary Guiling A. Mamondiong who came with Ms. Rosanna A. Urdaneta, Deputy Director General for Policies and Planning.

TESDA Region VIII Director Cleta M. Omega presented the regional TVET situationer, while DDG Urdaneta discussed the TVET Reform and Development Agenda and the two-pronged TVET Strategy for Poverty Reduction.

The inputs for the workshop which provided springboard and direction in the afternoon were given by the Regional Directors of various national government agencies: RD Karina Rosa Tiopes of Department of Tourism, RD Cynthia Nierras of Department of Trade and Industry, and representatives from Department of Agriculture, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Labor and Employment, National Economic and Development Authority. Also, present during the consultation was the Regional Director of Philippine Information Agency, Alice Nicart, with the members of the local media who covered the event.

Sec. Mamondiong appreciated the huge turnout of participants. In his message, he conveyed to the participants his desire that all barangays in the country will have easy access to the programs and services of TESDA to attain poverty reduction through access to the regional/provincial and TESDA Technology Institutions (TTI) websites.

The very highlight of the event, to the delight of the participants, was his pronouncement of allocating 10,000 scholarship slots for Region 8. Of these slots, 5,000 will be implemented this 2016 while the other 5,000 slots for the first semester of CY 2017.

During the workshop, the participants identified issues and challenges related to TVET that needed to be addressed and the policies and programs that maybe considered significant in addressing the issues.Skills needs and requirements were identified as well.