<strong>ANCP</strong>Appendix C: Reledev-FPTIAPPENDIX C: RELEDEV-FPTI<strong>ANCP</strong> <strong>Philippines</strong> <strong>Cluster</strong> <strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>Report</strong> (ver. 2.0)XXV
<strong>ANCP</strong>Appendix C: Reledev-FPTIANGOReledev Australia LimitedImplementing Partner(s) Foundation for Professional Training Inc (FPTI)INGON/AProgram TitleAccess to economic means of development for women experiencing socialexclusionBudget – <strong>AusAID</strong> /ANGO $34,139 / $12,880Beneficiary Target (2007/8) 92 young women from low-income families and their families will benefitfrom increase of skills, enabling them to gain employment and benefiteconomically. Indirectly the hotel and restaurant sector will gain skilled employees,and the training organisation increase its capacity to train underprivileged women.Major Development To enable women from low-income families to access means of economicObjectivedevelopment (such as training, industry experience, and employment) and therebycontribute to alleviation of poverty and enhanced quality of life for them and theirfamilies through skills trainingBackground:The organisationsReledev is a registered Australian NGO, formed in 1984 and accredited as a base-levelagency with <strong>AusAID</strong> in 2003. It received $146,697 from <strong>AusAID</strong> for the <strong>ANCP</strong> program in2007/8, which is being used to support four <strong>ANCP</strong> projects, all in the area of non-formal andtechnical vocational training. Reledev’s mission is to support “relief, education anddevelopment, in Australia and abroad”, with a focus on youth, women and marginalisedgroups. Reledev’s approach in its education projects involves skills transfer through applyingknowledge and experience from educational/vocational training in Australia to the particularaid context.In 2005 Reledev started work in the <strong>Philippines</strong> with the Foundation for Professional TrainingInc. (FPTI) through <strong>ANCP</strong> funding. FPTI’s need was to strengthen their competency-basedtraining (CBT)—now an institutional requirement of the Government of the <strong>Philippines</strong> (GoP).Reledev staff are skilled in this area, so the partnership with FPTI was timely and appropriate.FPTI is a Philippine NGO registered with the Philippine Council for NGO Certification (2001)and the Securities and Exchange Commission (1982). It started in 1982 and in 1986 hadfunding from the EEC for construction of a school. It now runs five training centres around the<strong>Philippines</strong> with CBT courses certified by the Technical Education and Skills DevelopmentAuthority (TESDA). FPTI’s vision is that women can become agents of social transformationat all levels of society, if committed to service and holistic human development. They seethemselves as pro-poor, pro women’s development, and also supporting an entrepreneurialspirit. As such, they advocate a public-private-community partnership model. The keystakeholders in achieving this are seen as the staff (faculty), industry employers, donors, andvolunteers in the training program. The main aims of FPTI’s work are:• to develop institutional readiness to undertake development cooperation projects,• to develop innovative approaches of formal and non formal education,• to establish vocational programs related to employment opportunities in tourism (i.e. theyare “market driven and employment driven”),• to include ‘life-long-learning’ activities for women’s development, to lead in the promotionof tech-voc training among private-owned institutions in the <strong>Philippines</strong>, and plan toensure all programs sustainable in the long term.The Banilad Centre for Professional Development (BCPD) is the Cebu-based arm of FPTI,and is where Reledev’s <strong>ANCP</strong> project is located. Although originally a joint project with alocal youth foundation, BCPD has been fully owned by FPTI since 2004. The BCPD missionis “to prepare young women for employment or entrepreneurship through technical skillstraining and encouragement of work ethics imbued with Christian values”. BCPD started withgeneral training for employment (sewing, cooking etc) but has now focused on the hotel andrestaurant hospitality sector, gaining accreditation from TESDA in 2005. BCPD is now<strong>ANCP</strong> <strong>Philippines</strong> <strong>Cluster</strong> <strong>Evaluation</strong> <strong>Report</strong> (ver. 2.0)XXVI
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