A. Direction Setting for TVET Sector

TESDA, as the authority in TVET, steers and provides guidance to the sector with the end in view of setting out clear directions and setting priorities.

1. TVET policy articulation and implementation
2. Labor market information gathering and dissemination
3. TVET development plans formulation and implementation
4. Skills Mapping
5. Social Marketing and Advocacy
6. Resource generation and mobilization

B. STANDARDS SETTING AND SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Another pillar of TESDA’s mandate is to ensure quality through the provision of standards and system development services. Competency assessment and certification of workers is continuously done in pursuit of enhancing productivity, quality and global competitiveness of workers.

1. Competency standard development facilitation
2.TVET qualifications packaging
3. Competency Assessment and Certification for workers and graduates
4. TVET Program Registration

C. Support to TVET Provision

In view of the need to provide equitable access and provision of TVET programs to the growing TVET clients, TESDA continues to undertake training provision through its network of technology institutions. Scholarships are also being provided to expand access to TVET opportunities.

1. Training provision is delivered through a network of the following:

• TESDA-administered schools and training centers
• Private technical-vocational institutions
• NGOs conducting skills training
• LGU-funded programs
• Firms conducting skills training programs
• National government agencies

2. Scholarships

• Private Education Student’s Fund Assistance (PESFA)
• PGMA—Training for Work Scholarship Project
• PGMA-Ladderized Education Program
• TESDA Language Skills Institute
• I-CARE (Invigorating Constituent Assistance in Reinforcing Employment

3. Dual Training Program
4. Apprenticeship/Learnership Program
5. TVET Training Initiation, Coordination, Implementation and Monitoring
6. Graduate Employment Assistance Program
7. Youth Profiling For Starring Career (YP4SC)

D. Institutional Capacity Building

For TESDA to provide the required services and live up to its core business, it must muster internal capacity and capability. It is necessary to build its competencies along various requirements of its responsibilities in direction setting, standard setting and systems development  and in supporting TVET provision. Institutional capacity building also involves the installation of the TESDA quality management system at all levels of the organization. 

1. Trainer Development Program/National TVET Trainers/Assessors Qualification Program
2. Competency-Based Assessors Training
3. Curriculum Development
4. Competency-Based Learning Materials Development
5. Competency-Based Training Delivery
6. Total Quality Management Program