First TVET Monitoring Workshop in the Philippines

Implementation of a TVET Monitoring System in the Philippines

Improving the existing TVET monitoring system is of major importance for the further development of TVET in the Philippines. TESDA Deputy Director General Rossana Urdaneta stressed the importance of the event especially now that there is a new government administration. She said that this initiative will further address the skills mismatch.

Participants from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Regional offices of TESDA, National Commission of Culture and Arts (NCCA), National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), University of the Philippines School of Statistics, Philippine Statistical Authority (PSA), and other government agencies attended the workshop.

Aside from educating the participants on the current monitoring system of the country, TESDA with the support of BIBB conducted this workshop, which was held from 21st to 23rd of June in Metro Manila, to help understand the development process of an TVET report and to learn about the process for indicator development.

The following topics were in focus:

• The experts of BIBB were referring to the German VET Data report, on its historical development, the legal basis, the organizational framework for compiling an annual report, the necessary cooperation with various stakeholders, funding and timeline as well as quality assurance of the report;
• the identification of key issues and guiding questions relevant for policy makers, taking into account the experiences made in Vietnam by developing an annual TVET report Viet Nam;
• the development of indicators on the basis of predefined guiding questions with a structuring aid;
• the general preconditions for TVET reporting in regard to data environment and organizational set up;

Furthermore the participants agreed on a joint schedule until the end of the year. Within the next six month three major activities shall be conducted as soon as the new government administration has been put in place:

• Step 1: a joint workshop with all data stakeholders shall be conducted to get an overview of existing data and agencies' competencies, to discuss the comptability of data sources and to think about an institutionalized cooperation between agencies;
• Step 2: clarification of mandate for national TVET reporting and funding;
• Step 3: definition of process and timeline for compiling a national TVET report and discussing possible obstacles

BIBB cooperation agreement

BIBB has had an institutional cooperation agreement in place in the field of VET with the Philippine Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) since September 2014. As part of the “K to 12 Plus Pilot Project on Dual Vocational Education and Training” – ‘K to 12 - Reform on the Philippines’, BIBB has been working on behalf of the development organisation sequa to provide guidance to TESDA and the PCCI since December 2014.