BRIEF HISTORY OF TESDA ZAMBOANGA CITY -ISABELA CITY DISTRICT OFFICE

TESDA Zamboanga City-Isabela City District Office was established by virtue of TESDA Order No. 154 Series of 2020 dated February 20, 2020 issued by Sec. Isidro S. Lapeña, PhD, CSEE, to serve as secretariat to the City TESD Committees; provide technical assistance to the LGUs for effective supervision, coordination and integration of TESD related services; reviews and recommends priority TESD programs and to perform such other functions as may be authorized.

TESDA Order No. 145 Series of 2020 issued also on February 20, 2020 placed Director Omarkhayyam I. Dalagan of TESDA Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Office as the Interim Director on concurrent capacity.

To strengthen further the delivery of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to the stakeholders in both Zamboanga and Isabela cities, TESDA will also establish the Zamboanga City-Isabela City District Training Center, which will soon rise inside the Zamboanga Economic Zone at Barangay San Ramon, Zamboanga City.

For quite a time, there was no TESDA as an Authority serving the cities of Zamboanga and Isabela. The core services of TESDA and other TVET concerns of the two cities were handled by the Regional Office through a desk officer or focal person. Such arrangement, did not sit well and hampered the advancement of TVET in the two cities.

Now that we here, and anchored on our slogan we shall be reaching to all for in “TESDA Abot Lahat”.