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The Human Resource Development of the National Manpower and Youth Council for Muslims in Region IX, Philippines
Dissertation Abstract:
This study was conduced to determine the personal characteristics of the trainees, some characteristics of the centers participating in the region's skill training program and its trainees, reactions of the trainees on the training program, and the relationships between some of the characteristics of the trainee like sex, age, educational attainment, initial capital, and the length of the training period with his achievement in the skill training program, and to evolve policy guidelines that might bring about changes for future training programs.
This study was conducted in Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and Zamboanga del Sur. There were 350 respondents composed of 200 males and 150 females with 49 percent married.
The findings disclosed that more of the respondents had intermediate and secondary levels of educational attainment. Before the training, 43 percent of them were jobless. After the training, 19 percent were immediately employed either by the government or private agencies, and 54 percent ventured on self-employment enterprises with an average monthly income of P3,783.02. The remaining 26 percent, however, were still unemployed.
The study further revealed that out of the 17 skill crafts offered by the three centers, automotive had more enrollees followed by garments. The married respondents would like their children to earn college degree while some would settle for a two-year vocational technical education.
The program, as a whole, was relevant to their interests and needs. Out-of-school youth and adults worked as apprentices while the rest observed the activities of the respondents in the shop. Sex, age, level of educational attainment, and initial capital played very significant roles in the income level of the respondents. Male respondents earned more than the females; the older the respondents, the lesser was the income capability; the higher the level of educational attainment, the higher the income; and the higher the initial capital, the higher was the gross income of the respondents.
The weak areas of the program, as ranked by the respondents, were the absence of classification of the grade level of the respondents; inadequacy of small hand tools, engines, sewing machines; materials for demonstration purposes, exclusion of cooperatives, and banking procedures, rules and regulations, in that order.
The strong areas, in their order of importance, were the offering of skill crafts relevant to the needs of the people in the area, qualification of the trainors, and strategic location of the centers.