Women's Causes Update: New tech voc, gender-sensitivity training curriculum

New tech voc, curriculum drafted | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "To break the division along gender lines in technical vocational (tech-voc) education, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are coming out with a gender-sensitivity training curriculum.

TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva Wednesday said the curriculum will be rolled out among its trainees and trainers under an agreement with the UNFPA, which gave a total of $89,083 grant. “Embedding the gender dimension is an initiative to empower women across societies,” he said.

In the Letter of Understanding (LoU), the partnership was formalized between the two agencies to implement the project component of the Joint Programme on Youth Employment and Migration (YEM) aiming to bring to technical vocational education and training (TVET) gender-sensitivity and life skills.

“We have opened a wider venue for women, making available variety of courses that they can enrol in, including those previously thought to be only for men. But much more needs to be done and we are continuously working on it,” Villanueva explained."