ADDRESSING POVERTY. Gaspar Gayona, regional director of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA 6), presents livelihood, poverty reduction and employment interventions during the orientation on Executive Order 70 to government agencies in a hotel in this city on Monday (July 8, 2019). TESDA chairs the poverty reduction, livelihood and employment cluster which will identify livelihood suited for villages and implement government programs against poverty and unemployment. (PNA Photo by Gail Momblan)
Western Visayas has organized its Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) on Monday.
The PRLEC is being chaired by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA-6) and vice-chaired by the Department of Agriculture (DA).
Gaspar Gayona, regional director of TESDA 6, said government agencies should come together in tackling the problem on poverty and unemployment in the country.
“The government agencies should come together if we want to solve poverty,” he said in an interview Tuesday in a hotel in this city’s Molo district.
The formed cluster will work through a value chain programming to achieve the “whole-of-nation" approach or the Executive Order 70 to end local communist armed conflict.
The cluster will identify livelihood suited for a certain area and its needs for skills training, he said.
“You can train the husbands to become carpenters but all of the members of the family should contribute to the earnings, so we can help them in that matter,” he said.
The programs of different member agencies, such as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), will help in the area that cannot be covered by TESDA’s mandate.
For instance, the DTI or the DOST can provide equipment on locals trained by TESDA in bread and pastries, Gayona said.
He said actions of the cluster will be implemented in “priority villages” infested by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and villages that are “vulnerable” to rebels.
“But we cannot deny the help to other villages who requests for it,” he clarified.
Through the organization of the cluster, Gayona expects that more rebels will be encouraged to go back to the fold of the law.
“That is expected. If there are no villages that support them (rebels) because there are many who already surrendered and they were taken care of with the framework. The cause is poverty, so we attack the cause and that will yield positive results,” he said.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1074371
The PRLEC is being chaired by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA-6) and vice-chaired by the Department of Agriculture (DA).
Gaspar Gayona, regional director of TESDA 6, said government agencies should come together in tackling the problem on poverty and unemployment in the country.
“The government agencies should come together if we want to solve poverty,” he said in an interview Tuesday in a hotel in this city’s Molo district.
The formed cluster will work through a value chain programming to achieve the “whole-of-nation" approach or the Executive Order 70 to end local communist armed conflict.
The cluster will identify livelihood suited for a certain area and its needs for skills training, he said.
“You can train the husbands to become carpenters but all of the members of the family should contribute to the earnings, so we can help them in that matter,” he said.
The programs of different member agencies, such as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), will help in the area that cannot be covered by TESDA’s mandate.
For instance, the DTI or the DOST can provide equipment on locals trained by TESDA in bread and pastries, Gayona said.
He said actions of the cluster will be implemented in “priority villages” infested by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and villages that are “vulnerable” to rebels.
“But we cannot deny the help to other villages who requests for it,” he clarified.
Through the organization of the cluster, Gayona expects that more rebels will be encouraged to go back to the fold of the law.
“That is expected. If there are no villages that support them (rebels) because there are many who already surrendered and they were taken care of with the framework. The cause is poverty, so we attack the cause and that will yield positive results,” he said.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1074371
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