Private Sector Voices: Carl Bryan Pontillas, Assistant Vice President of Syntactics, Inc.
Syntactics is based in Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines. It is an outsourcing company that offers digital services such as marketing as well as software and web design development. Syntactics…
Work-Based Learning Briefer
WBL content is integrated into the USAID Opportunity 2.0 program. This means youth participating in the program have gone through a Life Skills training program that strengthens work readiness skills…
Highlights of the DTI-USAID Opportunity 2.0 Agreement Signing (Video)
On May 18, 2021, the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry formalized an agreement with USAID Opportunity 2.0 to collaborate and pursue common goals of making enabling the vulnerable Filipino…
USAID, DTI ink partnership to strengthen entrepreneurship training for OSY
The U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a partnership with the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to enhance entrepreneurship training programs for…
60 out-of-school youths complete first run of USAID-supported TESDA Online Program
The first batch of the Youth Access to Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Online Programs completers comprising sixty (60) out-of-school youths (OSYs) from the cities of Isabela, Cotabato,…
NC I Self-Directed Work Readiness Modules (Learner’s Handbooks)
These modules will help prepare the youth transition to further education and training as well as equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully find work or start…
Listening to Voices of Out-of-School-Youth
USAID Opportunity 2.0 conducted a series of youth interviews gathering OSY perspectives and recommendations for the continuity of their learning, training, and livelihoods under COVID-19 conditions. These interviews also examined…