TESDA, Cagayan gov't sign MOA to reach more IPs, remote areas
More indigenous people and geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) in the province of Cagayan will now be reached by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).

On August 12, TESDA Secretary Isidro Lapeña and Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to boost Poverty Reduction, Livelihood, and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) projects in the province.
Under the MoA, TESDA said, the Cagayan government shall provide the agency a total of P867,000 financial assistance for the latter’s skills training assistance and other programs for the province.
TESDA’s Project TALAGA (TESDA-Alay ay Liwanag at Asenso Gamit ang enerhiya ng Araw) for Brgy. Anurturu, Rizal, one of the 822 Barangay Development Project (BDP) barangays shall receive P393,000 to procure supplies or materials for the installation of solar panels or lights in the Barangay Hall, as well as, in the un-energized houses of the 25-target scholar-beneficiaries of PV Systems Installation and Maintenance National Certificate II.
A total of P81,000 is committed to fund Project SID SET UP (Sustaining Integrated Development through Skills and Entrepreneurship Training Upscaling Program) for Brgy. Apayao in Piat, which is also one of the BDP priority barangays.
The fund will be used for the procurement of equipment, tools, and supplies or materials for the setting-up of a mini laboratory for animal health care requirements of the group of scholar-beneficiaries who shall be trained along Animal Health Care and Management NC III and Agro-entrepreneurship NC II.
The agency’s Project HOTS (Harnessing the power Of The Sun) for the island-barangay of Fuga in Aparri, shall receive P 393,000 which will be used to procure supplies or materials required to install solar panels or lights in the Barangay Hall, and in each of the respective abodes of the 25 target scholar-beneficiaries of PV Systems Installation NC II.
Mamba thanked Lapeña for TESDA’s assistance to the province by providing skills training programs to its residents.
“This partnership will go a long way. This partnership is not only limited to this, the Provincial Government of Cagayan is setting up skills training centers in the province in partnership with the TESDA,” he said.