Technical vocational training

Technical vocational training in Antique: Enhancing on-the-job training and post-training services

It is a sad but common fact that not all young people who have gone through technical vocational training or college education are able to find jobs. Some of them are not able to find any job and this is especially true for people in localities with a labour market characterized by mismatches between available jobs and skills, among others.

The Joint Programme in partnership with TESDA and the provincial government of Antique, engaged in providing training grants in the identified skills to disadvantaged youth with certain value-added features. These include mandatory on-the-job training, three-day gender sensitivity training in the regular training courses made possible by the support of UNFPA, partnership agreements entered into by public and private sector partners to provide on-the-job and job opportunities to the youth, provision of a training allowance to trainees by the ILO.