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Local economic development
Capacity building programme on local economic development to promote youth employment
The capacity building programme on local economic development (LED) aims to enhance capacities of local government units on youth-oriented economic and employment strategies.
Technical vocational skills training
Labour market-responsive technical vocational skills training programme for the disadvantaged youth
The labour market-responsive technical vocational skills training programme aims to increase access to decent work of young women and men.
Understanding the Public Employment Service Office
PESO starter kit: Guide to understanding the Public Employment Service Office
The Public Employment Service Office (PESO), is a non-free charging multi-service provider established and accredited pursuant to Republic Act 8759, otherwise known as the PESO Act of 1999.
Entrepreneurship training
Entrepreneurship training programme for the disadvantaged youth
The entrepreneurship training programme for the disadvantaged youth aims to promote entrepreneurship as a career option, a priority to address youth employment challenge.
Migration promoting employment opportunities
Alternatives to work migration: Promoting employment opportunities for youth in their home provinces
The Spanish-funded MDG Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth is a three-year programme designed to help youth like Junrey find decent employment at the local level.
Local employment services to promote youth employment
Strengthening local employment services to promote youth employment: A case study
Local employment services facilitate local labour market transactions including matching jobseekers with enterprises seeking workers. These services are usually carried out by the government through a network of Public Employment Service Offices...
Decent jobs for Filipino youth
MDG-Fund joint programme on alternatives to migration: Decent jobs for Filipino youth: Final project fact sheet
Funded by the Government of Spain through the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F), the joint programme on "Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth", more commonly known as the joint programme on Youth Employment...
Young women in non-traditional technical vocational careers
Breaking the barriers: Young women in non-traditional technical vocational careers
The joint programme in partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) offered technical vocational training courses based on local industry requirements and the technical vocational skills and training needs of the...
Entrepreneurship education
Showcase of good practices: Entrepreneurship education at the secondary level in Antique and Masbate
Antique is a province with a well-developed sense of culture and the arts characterized by the vibrant enthusiasm of its youth for music and other artistic pursuits.
Entrepreneurship to ease jobs crisis
Filipino youth who can't find work start their own
The joint programme on “Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth” involves four UN agencies (ILO, IOM, UNICEF and UNFPA) in supporting the Philippine government’s vision of a productive and competitive youth.
Local economic development to create youth employment
Antique in the spotlight: Local economic development to create youth employment
In the Philippines, a great number of young people cannot find work. According to the 2011 data from the National Statistics Office, almost half of unemployed were young workers aged 15-24 years.
Labour market-responsive entrepreneurship training
Implementing a labour market-responsive entrepreneurship training programme for the youth: A case study
In a pilot scheme that sought to increase young people's access to decent work at the local level through entrepreneurship, programme implementers, trainers and the youth were able to learn significant insights to add to their store of life...
Understanding youth employment policy and action challenge
Briefing guide on understanding youth employment policy and action challenges: Philippines
For the purpose of this document, who comprises the youth in the Philippines was described; the terms ‘youth unemployment’ and ‘underemployment’ defined; and current situation of youth unemployment at the local and global level discussed.
Technical vocational training
Technical vocational training in Maguindanao: Harnessing the local pool of talent through skills training
In a country where the magnitude of the poor population is pegged at 23 million people (NSCB, 2009), many young people were not able to continue on to tertiary education and instead opted to work for a living.
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...
Youth entrepreneur
I can and I will: Great things come in good and bad ways (Success story of a youth entrepreneur)
“The world is round” has been a cliché since time immemorial but we seldom realize its truth unless we experience it ourselves. Nasef was just one of the many who could say that this cliché applies in real life.
Soap production
Soap of life: Soap production provides more than bread and butter for families (Success story of a youth entrepreneur)
One of the 60 recipients of Starter Kits of the Labour Market-Responsive Entrepreneurship Training Programme in the Province of Maguindanao was a 22 year-old out-of-school youth and a resident of Old Maganoy, Datu Abdullah Sangki, 2nd District...
Entrepreneurship is an option
Antique’s disadvantaged youth shows that entrepreneurship is an option
Many youth have sought work outside of their villages to help support their families and themselves. The most common example of this phenomenon is the seasonal throng of sacadas from central Antique who make the annual trek to the sugar plantations...
Vocational training in Masbate
Technical vocational training in Masbate: Keeping the dream alive for Masbate’s disadvantaged youth
Perhaps the greatest frustration of being a youth growing up in disadvantaged circumstances is aspiring for a career and being shot down even before one has been given the opportunity to take off.
Entrepreneurship potentials of disadvantaged youth
Assessment of entrepreneurship potentials of disadvantaged youth in Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur
Entrepreneurship is one option that is on top of everybody’s list when it comes to recommendations for stimulating employment in an otherwise job-starved environment. In four provinces highlighted in the study, youth entrepreneurship is still a...