Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Eighteenth Congress
Regular Session

5656

HOUSE BILL No.

Introduced by Representative SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 17, Article II of the 1987 Constitution mandates the State to give priority to education,
science and technology, culture, and sports to foster patriotism and nationalism, accelerate social
progress, and promote total human liberation and development."

Relatively, Section 1, Article XIV cleatly states that the State shall protect and promote the right
of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and shall take appropriate steps to make such
education accessible to all? In context with these constitutional provisions, it is apparent that the
State has the obligation to ensure that quality education be accessible and be afforded to all citizens
not just for economic function but also for socio-cultural aspirations.

Ifugao is located at the foot of the Cordillera Mountain Ranges. It is bounded on the west by
Benguet, on the south by Nueva Vizcaya, on the east by Isabela and on the north by Mt. Province.
It is generally located at 120 degrees 40'17" longitude. Ifugao is politically divided into 11
municipalities and 175 barangays with the municipality of Lagawe as its capital Although there
are two (2) district engineering offices in Ifugao, the geographic terrain still poses challenges to
travel from one place to another in the province. Some areas can hardly be reached due to road
conditions frequently affected by landslides and soil erosions.

Moreover, the province has struggled through the years to deal with its internal challenges that
hindered its progress and development. Poverty, literacy, and employment have been rampant to
‘many areas of the province which ate entirely solvable with education and livelihood opportunities.
‘The degrading status of the famous tice terraces and the fading indigeneity of crucial dimensions
of the Ifugao material culture also become critical as the province lost billions of funds during the
past recent years.

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It is then deemed necessary that a facilitated training and education be afforded to Ifugaos to
enhance and to formalize their skills that may be utilized for livelihood and employment purposes.
‘The Ifugao people ate famed for their sculpture, weaving, painting, engineering, and other creative
skills that would, if administered and certified by TESDA, be instrumental for them to pursue
employment essential to elevate their status in life. This proposed establishment of training and
assessment center would give many unemployed but skilled Ifugaos an opportunity to secure jobs
and to enter in a profitable enterprise that would help solve the worsening economic conditions
of the province.

This bill proposes for the establishment of a Technical Education and Skill Development
Authority (TESDA) Manpower Development Training Center in the Municipality of Mayoyao,
Province of Ifugao, to be known as the Mayoyao TESDA Training and Assessment center, and
appropriating funds therefor.

In view of the foregoing, passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

REP. SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO
Lone District, Hrovince of Ifugao


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Eighteenth Congress
Regular Session

5856

HOUSE BILL No.

Introduced by Representative SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING CENTER IN
THE MUNICIPALITY OF MAYOYAO, PROVINCE OF IFUGAO, TO BE KNOWN
AS THE MAYOYAO TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress Assembled:

SECTION 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “Mayoyao TESDA Training and
Assessment Center Act”.

SECTION 2. Establishment. — There is hereby established Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) Manpower Development Training and Assessment Center in
Barangay Mongol, Municipality of Mayoyao, in the Province of Ifugao, under the supervision of
the TESDA, to be known as Mayoyao TESDA Training and Assessment Center;

SECTION 3. General Mandate. — The Mayoyao TESDA Training and Assessment Center,
hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational training and skills
development programs to students and residents from low-income families and out-of-school
youths, including college dropouts and persons with disabilities, in the municipality of Mayoyao,
and other adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao, geared towards the acquisition of practical
livelihood, employable skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship.

‘The Center shall help train local residents to become productive, self-reliant and globally
competitive middle to high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and economic development
of these areas, in particular, and to meet the manpower needs of both local and international labor
markets, in general.

The Center shall consider in the design of relevant technical-vocational training programs to be
offered thereat a competency assessment of the socioeconomic profile, employment conditions


and opportunities, business climate, market and industry potentials, available resources, presence
of support structures, including the literacy level and skills readiness, and the overall development
within the host areas and adjacent communities within the operational radius of the Center
established herein. The Center shall also consider the relevant skills trade competencies,
craftsmanship training programs, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective
employment and development interventions required to make these areas as human resource and
productivity hubs.

‘The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited assessment centers for acquired competencies
in technical-vocational skills. Preference in admission shall be given to the most disadvantaged
citizens, including persons with disabilities, and to the most economically depressed areas of the
municipality of Mayoyao and other adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao with the highest
percentage of disadvantaged and indigent citizens.

‘The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the TESDA,
offer relevant teachers’ training assistance and curriculum design to the secondary schools
providing the technical-vocational livelihood (IVL) track under the K to 12 Program of the
DepEd.

SECTION 4. Training Programs. ~The Center shall offer diverse short-term certificate courses
and modula trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and trade specialization to comply with
employment standards in preferred and emerging market-driven labor opportunities, and shall
likewise give premium efforts to skills specialization for the local market employment requirements
geared towards achieving the development of a robust inclusive economy within the host areas
and each of the adjacent localities and communities within the operational radius of the Center, in
consultation with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Department of Trade
and Industry (DTI), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Department of the
Interior and Local Government (DILG), the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA), business-industry partners, and such other relevant agencies, both local and
international.

‘The Center may establish research and technology hubs, technology development farms, mobile
training programs, and satellite or extension training centers in priority areas throughout the
Province of Ifugao within the service radius of the Center to strengthen linkages among the
industry, the academe and the Center.

To address the development and manpower needs of the municipality of Mayoyao and the other
adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao, the Center shall offer the following TESDA-registered
technical-vocational training programs with competencies assessment leading to National
Certification Levels I-III:

a) Skills training in industrial technology and hard trade such as metal and steel works,
machine fabrication and operation, heavy equipment operation, automotive mechanic,
refrigeration and air conditioning, electronics, and operation of power tools and
equipment for both medium skills grade and industrial purposes;

b) Agriculture and aquaculture-related training and skills development in such areas as
farming-fishing operations technology, backyard farming and home-based aquaculture
and propagation innovation, mechanized farm and fishing tools and equipment
operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and relevant
farmers and fisherfolks’ continuing training for increased productivity and
entrepreneurship;


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Social communication skills development, language proficiency courses in English and
other languages for business process outsourcing employment such as call center and
overseas job placement;

Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and small-scale

entrepreneurship, including practical skills education in crafts and arts, workmanship

and designing, high-speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, horticulture, livestock
raising and breeding; food processing technology, home technology, culinary arts and
commercial cooking, cosmetology, health and wellness training;

©) Basic business literacy training in financial management and marketing, practical
accountancy, bookkeeping and office procedures, business processes and application
procedures including registration, licensing, documentation, business patent and
intellectual property regulation, business financing and investment opportunities
sourcing, import-export accreditation, online home-based business operation and
social media business marketing;

) Technical-vocational occupation and trade skills such as carpentry, masonry, plumbing,
welding, practical electricity and installation, automotive servicing, electronics
servicing, basic personal computer (PC) troubleshooting and servicing, and such other
relevant practical skills courses;

g) Computer literacy and information technology (I)-related skills, digital techaology,
web design, animation, photoshop/online photography, computer design and
advertising;

h) Seminars in personality development, career counseling and job-placement, and work
ethic and values; and

i) Other preferred priority skills and trade training that may be utilized by the people of
the municipality of Mayoyao and other localities in the province of Ifugao, to enhance

their capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and entrepreneurial

activities.

SECTION 5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. — ‘The provisions of this Act
notwithstanding the Mayoyao Center established herein shall become operationally effective only
upon the determination and declaration of the TESDA, through the issuance of a formal
recommendation and certificate of compliance, that the Center has individually and satisfactorily
complied with the minimum requirements for quality standards prescribed by the TESDA
governing the following competency assessment:

a) Standard procedures and guidelines (SPGs) for the establishment and operation of a
‘TESDA-accredited training and assessment center;

b) Operational sustainability of the Center established herein, such as licensed-faculty

trainers and personnel, equipment, training and laboratory facilities, and instructional

materials;

Sustainable funding source and allocation for the budgetary requirement of the Center

herein established;

d) Assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the minimum

standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills technology and the

needs of the host site and adjacent localities served in the context of the Association

of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Philippine Qualifications Framework (PFQ)

for technical-vocational education; and

Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards, as may be

necessary and applicable.

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SECTION 6. Administration. — The Center shall be headed by a Technical-Vocational
Administrator, under the supervision of the TESDA, who shall render full-time services and be
responsible for the administration and operation of the Center.

‘The Technical-Vocational Administrator of the Center shall be appointed by the TESDA Director
General in accordance with Civil Service Commission rules and regulation and the qualification
requirements for such office.

‘The Technical-Vocational Administrator of the Center shall enter into mutual agreements with
locally-based private and public counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to
approval of the TESDA Director General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively
implement this Act.

SECTION 7. Appropriations. — The Director General of the TESDA shall include in the
Authority’s program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be included in the
annual General Appropriations Act. The LGUs concerned, in consultation with the TESDA, shall
likewise set aside from available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual
counterpart fund to support the operation of the Center established herein,

SECTION 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. — Within ninety (90) days after the
approval of this Act, the TESDA, in coordination with the DOLE, the DTI, the DOST, the
NEDA, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the DILG, the concerned LGU, and
such other relevant agencies and industry-business partners of the host locality shall prepare and
issue the necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of this Act.

SECTION 9. Separability Clause. If, for any reason, any section ot provision of this Act shall
be deemed unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall not be affected
and shall remain in force and effect.

SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. ~ All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and
regulations contrary to ot inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby repealed or
amended accordingly.

SECTION 11. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,