Pamugas, Balaba bag TESDA Best CTEC Awards

Gloria Excelsa Sarol-Pamugas and Javier C. Balaba, provincial Community Training and Employment Coordinator (CTEC) and LGU-Tagum City CTEC, respectively, were awarded Provincial and Regional Gawad Kasanayan Kabuhayan 2005 Best CTECs. Both received their Certificates of Recognition and cash incentives during the Annual Regional CTEC Congress on November 14 and 15 at DBM/RMPC, Camudmod, Island Garden City of Samal.

The Gawad Kasanayan Kabuhayan Best CTEC Award is an institutionalized recognition mechanism for CTECs who have displayed exemplary performance in the implementation of Community-Based Training and Enterprise Development (CBTED) programs. The award is given annually.

Pamugas, aside from being CTEC since 2003, is also Center Manager of the Davao del Norte-Technology Livelihood Development Center located at Tagum City. It is a resource center providing access to technology and livelihood development programs and services for existing and potential entrepreneurs in Davao del Norte.

Her best practices for CY 2005 include the facilitation of in-house and institutional/on-site Business Enterprise and Livelihood Trainings (BELT), capability enhancement seminars, trainer's training and workshops, techno-demonstrations, techno-video showing, selling of printed and instructional video materials, publication of techno-magazines of Simplified Meat Processing, trainings on product development packaging and marketing, and Entre-Pinoy. She was also a recipient of the Civil Service Pag-asa Award 2005.

Balaba works in the Community Affairs Office under the Office of the City Mayor where he currently holds the position as Community Affairs Assistant II. He has been CTEC since 1993. He was proclaimed as Hall of Famer CTEC Awardee having been chosen as Best Regional CTEC in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2005. Capping those citations is his being the 1st Runner Up in the Search for National Best CTEC in CY 2000.

The main objective of training is employment, be it wage employment or self-employment. In every CBTED program that Abe facilitates and implements, this ultimate goal is always present in his mind. His best practices for CY 2005 include the facilitation for the employment of 27 Motor Vehicle Emission Control Technician National Certificate III graduates and the accreditation of San Roque Emission Test Center, the first and only vehicle emission control assessment center within Davao Region, accredited by TESDA-Davao del Norte Provincial Office. Out of the 27 graduates, ten (10) of them were employed by the San Roque Emission Test Center in Tagum City, Zamboanga, Cebu, and Dipolog branches. The other eleven (11) were employed in other emission companies in Samar, Davao, Manila, Dumaguite, Nabunturan, Bohol, Dipolog, and Cagayan de Oro.

In coordination with TESDA, HOLCIM and LGU Tagum City, Balaba also facilitated the training on Masonry of 40 Indigenous People (IPs) of Tagum City Tribal Council which led to the employment of 18 graduates at LGU-Tagum City and private contractors. The training support provided by HOLCIM Philippines in this program include 200 bags of cement, tools and other paraphernalia, stipend allowance for the trainees and meals and snacks for seven days amounting to more than Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00).

Balaba also assisted the following trainings: a) Plumbing sponsored by the UM Tagum College, Tagum Water District, LGU-Tagum City in coordination with TESDA-DN after which 6 graduates were employed by the local water utilities, b) three (3) batches of Food and Beverage Service Attendant (FBSA) at Phil-Cavanis Letran de Davao High School, fifteen (15) of the graduates from this program were already employed abroad and locally, c) Hollowblock/Concrete Making for 40 Indigenous People of Magdum, Tagum City which led to the employment of five (5) graduates at the LGU-Tagum City, d) organic fertilizer production of the Gawad Kalinga-Couples for Christ (GK-CFC), and e) training-cum-production of TESDA Multi-Purpose Building and Phil-Cavanis Letran de Davao Elementary School. All the graduates of the trainings has undergone assessment both in theory and actual. He also assisted the assessment and certification of forty-one (41) regular, forty (40) casual and eighteen (18) contractual employees of LGU-Tagum City. Those casual and contractual employees who have Certificates of Competency (COC) converted to Civil Service Commission were given priority consideration for the re-organization this year.