Gender sensitivity is alive and well in tech-voc training | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "TESDA and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed last week in Makati City a letter of understanding for a partnership project in mainstreaming gender sensitivity and life skills in vocational training.
Signatories are TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva and Ugochi Daniels, country office head, UNFPA. They also signed the TESDA Annual Work Plan for the ongoing Youth, Employment and Migration Program (YEM).
This project builds on the accomplishments of the Gender-Responsive Economic Actions for the Transformation of Women (GREAT) Project where TESDA partnered with the Philippine Commission on Women and the Canadian International Cooperation Agency.
The GREAT Project aims to create and support a gender-responsive enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment, particularly those in micro enterprises."
What is Wellness Pilipinas?
The Philippines' response to the call of World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009 to lessen the augment of Lifestyle Diseases of stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc, and the country's compliance to United Nations Climate Change Peace Building Campaign in 2007. Wellness Pilipinas! was conceived by "Wellness for Peace" Author, Public Speaker & former Peace Ambassador Zara Jane Juan. It consists of pep talks, workshops, symposiums & fora meant to achieve wellness in mind, body, spirit & economics as tools for peace & nation-building. Wellness Pilipinas aired as a live TV show at GNN via G-SAT Asia from 2009-2010 supported by private and public corporations