PCUP targets 17K beneficiaries for skills training programs
BEFORE 2021 ends, the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) will strengthen its goal to provide as much Capability Building Programs (CBPs) and skills trainings to urban poor sectors as it targets to reach its peak of 17,000 beneficiaries.
Base on the information of the Commission, the said number is the most concrete figure that it could get.
To be exact, PCUP eyes 678 CBPs or more before 2022 and with this number, at least 16,950 individuals must be the beneficaries of the said trainings.
One of the mechanisms in making this possible is the un-ending partnership of the Commission to various government and private agencies thru its Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), just like the collaboration of PCUP with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) that serves as its primary provider of the skills training for the urban poor.
Besides the TESDA-provided skills training, various topics are also offered such as livelihood related trainings, financial literacy seminars, gender and development orientation, leadership trainings, paralegal, organizational management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction management, to name a few.
Usec. Feliciano exclaimed, “PCUP wants to provide the masses with fair and equal chances of free seminars and trainings that will give them additional knowledge and skills that will be beneficial for their life, as they can start their business or venture to work.”
“With this goal in mind, we will not stop to locate communities that is in dire need of these trainings and with the help of our partners, I am confident that our target number will be realized”, he later added.
In the present, the PCUP already tallied 328 seminar-trainings with 11,089 participants ranging from the urban poor organizations (UPOs) of NCR to Mindanao.
The Commission, with its Field Operations Divisions (FODs) continuously monitors the implementation of these CBPs to make sure that the UPOs were given the seminar-trainings that they need.
