Labour market-responsive entrepreneurship skills training for disadvantaged youth in Maguindanao

The entrepreneurship training for disadvantaged youth is currently implemented in the four (4) pilot provinces: Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur. It aims to promote entrepreneurship as a career option, a priority to address youth employment challenge. It employs the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB), the entrepreneurship training program of ILO.

The entrepreneurship training for disadvantaged youth is currently implemented in the four (4) pilot provinces: Masbate, Antique, Maguindanao and Agusan del Sur. It aims to promote entrepreneurship as a career option, a priority to address youth employment challenge. It employs the Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB), the entrepreneurship training program of ILO.

Taking the lead are the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and and TESDA-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. They will ensure provision of post training services to training graduates to set-up an individual or group-based microenterprises. This will be done in collaboration with local business service providers, private sector and relevant government agencies.

The training program is supported by the ILO under the MDG Fund Joint Programme on Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth funded by the Spanish Government.