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THE Technical Training and Abilities Improvement Authority (TESDA) stated on Wednesday that it plans to offer extra upskilling and livelihood applications to ladies and abroad Filipino employees (OFWs) this yr.

“We plan to empower our ladies industrial trades to supply them extra alternatives for wage and employment,” Aniceto D. Bertiz III, deputy director common of TESDA, stated at a briefing.

He stated retooling and upskilling will encourage its trainees to seek out high-quality employment within the Philippines as an alternative of working abroad.

Mr. Bertiz stated the TESDA Girls’s Heart has educated greater than 10,000 ladies because it opened in 1998.

“TESDA additionally acknowledges the necessity to assist retool and upskill the a couple of million OFWs who had been displaced and repatriated through the pandemic,” he stated.

The company additionally plans to arrange 18 innovation facilities to supply coaching in info communications expertise and different diploma programs.

TESDA was positioned beneath the Division of Labor and Employment’s supervision in September.

In December, the Division of Migrant Staff stated it’s going to present livelihood applications for jobseekers who fell sufferer to human trafficking schemes.

The unemployment fee improved to a three-year low of 5.4% in 2022, the bottom fee since 5.1% recorded in 2019, earlier than the coronavirus pandemic.

“By growing industrial abilities in these non-traditional trades, ladies are given the possibility to be extra aggressive in these industries largely dominated by males,” Mr. Bertiz stated. — John Victor D. Ordoñez

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