Developing youth vocational skills

Encouraging particular youth skills
Encouraging youth productive skills

Description

Developing youth vocational skills involves implementing targeted training programs, apprenticeships, and practical learning opportunities to equip young people with job-ready competencies. This strategy addresses youth unemployment, skills mismatches, and barriers to workforce entry by fostering technical proficiency, work experience, and adaptability. By aligning training with market needs and providing career guidance, it remedies gaps between education and employment, empowering youth to secure sustainable livelihoods and contribute productively to economic development.

Implementation

The Manpower Development Projects of the Philippines government is a skills training project which is designed for young rural workers and geared particularly toward the enhancement of the employability and productivity of the young rural population and self-employment opportunities. The programme called Training for Rural Enterprise Development implements entrepreneurship training cum extension programmes adapted and packaged according to the prevailing socio-economic conditions and needs of the rural clientele. During the second half of 1878, 324 graduates were trained from three regions and a total of 23 micro-enterprises were established.