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Philippines: Enabling Business to Reduce Poverty in Mindanao (RESEARCHED BY: JAVIE ABENDAN)

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Title:

Enabling Business to Reduce Poverty in Mindanao

Date:  AUGUST 6, 2018
Key info:  Enabling Business to Reduce Poverty in Mindanao was explored at the World Bank. a thriving business hub that benefits from economic zones, heavy industries, and agricultural businesses With one-third of the impoverished in the Philippines but just a quarter of the population, unleashing Mindanao's potential will be vital to reducing poverty across the country.

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Philippines: Enabling Business to Reduce Poverty in Mindanao

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Today’s forum “Mindanao Today, Mindanao Tomorrow: Enabling Business for Jobs Creation” was organized to highlight key reforms that would support private business growth.

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Mindanaw Poverty Relief Action ( RESEARCHED BY: HUGO ENRIQUEZ)

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=322696803157931&id=100274218733525

By-Mindanaw Poverty Relief Action

Key info: People who volunteer to donate food and help by giving food to the people of Sil-angon jungle school there most recent mission was called Feed my lambs and Food Forest Project. Feed My Lambs (FML) is a feeding program for the malnourished and it is extended to the village. While Food Forest Project (FFP) is a fruit tree planting program. We wanted to help them meet their basic and essential need which is food. Through FML we aim to relieve their present hunger and FFP helps them to be sustained.

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The Dilemma of Poverty and Civil Unrest in the Philippines: Government Policies on Mindanao Paperback ( RESEARCHED BY: HUGO ENRIQUEz)

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Title: The Dilemma of Poverty and Civil Unrest in the Philippines: Government Policies on Mindanao Paperback.

Author: Daniel Ringuet.

Published: March 21, 2010.

As the population of the Philippines continues to grow, poverty and civil unrest is widespread on the island of Mindanao. Mindanao's poverty can be attributed largely to past migration and economic policies of the Philippines government that delayed economic growth. Furthermore, since independence was obtained from the United States in 1946, the condition of life of Mindanao's poor has worsened due to such factors as internal conflicts between government forces and secessionist movements. This paper sheds some light on the dilemma of poverty, government policies, migration and civil unrest on Mindanao, southern Philippines.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOiXFC26Vk
Title:

One in five people in Philippines live in extreme poverty

Author: Al Jazeera English

Date: Mar 22, 2019
Key info: About one in five of the Philippines's 106 million people live in extreme poverty, getting by on less than two dollars a day. Many, including children, work long hours as street vendors or laborer's to make enough to feed themselves. Hunger occurs the most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where 70 percent of workers are poor.

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🇵🇭 One in five people in Philippines live in extreme poverty | Al Jazeera English

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World Bank: Fixing Mindanao economy key to PH progress (RESEARCHED BY: JAVIE ABENDAN)

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URL: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/914735/world-bank-fixing-mindanao-economy-key-to-ph-progress
Title: Fixing Mindanao economy key to PH progress

Date: July 18, 2017
Key info: The recovery of Mindanao's economy is critical to the growth of the Philippines. Plantation crops, forestry, mining, and heavy industries supported an import substitution regime in Mindanao's economy. These industries had minimal local multiplier effects because they were capital-intensive, required little local processing, and reinvested little profit locally.

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MANILA - Besides the pursuit of lasting peace in Mindanao, the World Bank sees initiatives supporting the agriculture sector as well as human development to create more jobs in the island.

In a report titled "Philippines Mindanao Jobs Report: A Strategy for Mindanao Regional Development" published in June, the World Bank said that in general, "economic progress in the Philippines will depend on the success of development in Mindanao."

"Because Mindanao is the major center of conflict in the country, peace there means peace for the Philippines. Because Mindanao holds about a quarter of the country's population but about a third of its poor, significantly reducing national poverty hinges on reducing poverty in Mindanao. Because Mindanao is the Philippines' main source of agricultural products, enhancing production there could reduce food and input prices, improve welfare, and make Philippine products more competitive," the World Bank explained.

"Unless there is development in Mindanao, it is hard to see how the Philippines can achieve sustained and inclusive growth," the World Bank said.

However, in recent years, the World Bank noted that agricultural productivity in Mindanao regressed, resulting in the underdevelopment of the manufacturing and services sectors.

"Agriculture is not very productive except for a few export crops, manufacturing is constrained by inadequate infrastructure, and the low-productivity, low-skill services sector has become the catch basin for excess agriculture workers who cannot find jobs in cities. Lack of competition in key sectors, insecure property rights, complex regulations, and severe underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and health-all exacerbated by the deficient institutions-have led to this anomalous growth pattern, which has left the majority of the Mindanawons without good jobs and has led to the emigration of many talented people. In addition, conflict arising from land disputes deters investment and job creation," the World Bank said.

It also does not help that the island is suffering from decades of armed conflict, although, as a whole, a "narrow growth strategy" has afflicted the island, according to the World Bank.

"Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient for good job creation and poverty reduction. What also matters is how broad-based and pro-poor the growth is. Unlike Luzon and the Visayas, which had a more diversified, innovative, and labor-intensive economic structure, Mindanao's economy was driven by plantation crops, forestry, mining, and heavy manufacturing to support an import substitution regime. Because these sectors were capital-intensive, involved little local processing, and reinvested little profit locally, they had low local multiplier effects. While they contributed to Mindanao's high GDP [gross domestic product] per capita in earlier years, they created few jobs and hence did little to reduce poverty. In addition, trade and industrial protection policies taxed agriculture heavily. Thus, Mindanao's growth path failed to build on the main comparative advantage: agriculture based on smallholders," the World Bank said.

"Ultimately, this narrow growth model could not be sustained and contributed to conflict as wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a small elite group. This drove economic and social injustice, the core cause of violent conflict in Mindanao," the World Bank added.

With a jobs challenge in Mindanao described by the World Bank as "daunting," the multilateral lender recommended the pursuit of sustainable peace and development in the region, coupled with job creation.

"Resolving conflict in Mindanao rests on addressing the causes of conflict and providing jobs and economic opportunities as alternatives to violence," the World Bank said.

Specifically, the World Bank recommended three main components to a comprehensive strategy aimed at unlocking Mindanao's potential, as follows: addressing drivers of conflict and fragility and build up institutions in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and conflict-affected areas; boosting human development; as well as raising agricultural productivity and improving farm-to-market connectivity.

The World Bank's key policy recommendations also include the following: building up logistics and transport connectivity by improving road networks and the efficiency of shipping services to reduce trade costs; increasing agricultural productivity by improving extension and irrigation services, along with price reforms to realize Mindanao's agriculture potential; improving the supply of reliable power and the speed, affordability, and quality of information and communications technology services by fostering competition; as well as supporting private investment by addressing the growing skills gap, the high regulatory burden for businesses, and by improving financial inclusion and the governance of land.

The World Bank nonetheless admitted that "job creation will not be enough" to resolve the decades-old fighting in Mindanao.

"Where the cause of conflict is not economic, such as the struggle for identity or self-rule, economic measures will not be enough to resolve the conflict. In Mindanao, peace and development will hinge on the success of a political solution that addresses the causes of violence-injustice, weak governance, land dispossession, discrimination, and sociocultural marginalization. However, there are economic dimensions to conflict: some people who feel left out of the economy turn to armed groups for both livelihood and social status. Accordingly, inclusive job creation can lay the foundations for peace by providing equitable access to economic opportunity for all, including people in remote, conflict-affected communities," the World Bank said. SFM

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World Bank: Fixing Mindanao economy key to PH progress

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Besides the pursuit of lasting peace in Mindanao, the World Bank sees initiatives supporting the agriculture sector as well as human development to create more jobs in the island. In a report titled "Philippines Mindanao Jobs Report: A Strategy for Mindanao Regional Development" published in June, the World Bank said that in general, "economic progress in the Philippines will depend on the success of development in Mindanao."

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IFAD and the Philippines to invest $95.1 million in agribusiness development to increase incomes and reduce rural poverty (RESEARCHED BY: JAVIE ABENDAN)

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URL: https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/-/news/ifad-and-the-philippines-to-invest-95-1-million-in-agribusiness-development-to-increase-incomes-and-reduce-rural-poverty
Title: Rural Microenterprise Promotion Programme
Date: 14 May 2019
Key info: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has inked an agreement with the Philippine government to help 469,200 rural residents in 20 of Mindanao's poorest regions. Agribusiness firms must promote a process of inclusive rural transformation, offering market possibilities for smallholder farmers, to strengthen the rural economy and eliminate poverty in rural regions.

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Rome, 14 May 2019 - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has signed a financing agreement with the Government of the Philippines to reduce poverty and increase incomes for 469,200 rural people in 20 of the poorest provinces in Mindanao and Eastern Visayas regions.

The agreement was signed by Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of IFAD, and Carlos G. Dominguez, Secretary of Finance, the Philippines by correspondence last week.

The total cost of the Rural Agro-enterprise Partnerships for Inclusive Development and Growth (RAPID) project is US$95.1 million of which IFAD is providing a $62.9 million loan and a $2.5 million grant. The project will be cofinanced by the Government of the Philippines ($10.8 million), domestic financial institutions ($12.4 million), local private sector partners ($2.8 million), and the beneficiaries themselves ($2.1 million). The remaining $1.6 million will be determined at a later date.

Though the Philippines is a lower middle-income country, more than 20 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, with a higher incidence in rural areas (35 per cent) where agriculture is the main source of income.

Rural areas lag in economic growth and have higher rates of underemployment. This is partly due to farmers' lack of access to productive capital, to knowledge and technology, and to limited market access. Rural poor people also have few options for generating off-farm income and lack access to affordable financial services.

The overarching goal of the project is to increase smallholder farmers' incomes and generate employment opportunities in the selected provinces. The project aims to do this by creating the conditions for the sustainable development of micro and small enterprises in specific agricultural commodity chains (cocoa, coffee, processed fruit and nuts, and coconut).

"To boost the rural economy and reduce poverty in rural areas, it is important that agribusiness enterprises drive a process of inclusive rural transformation, creating market opportunities for smallholder farmers as well as jobs for other disadvantaged rural people," said Alessandro Marini, IFAD Country Director for the Philippines.

"The project will support the development of inclusive, sustainable and resilient commodity chains, providing farmers and agribusinesses with a range of services, including access to finance and business and technical advisory services, as well as key economic infrastructure such as farm-to-market roads," he added.

Since 1978, IFAD has financed 16 projects in the Philippines, for a total investment of $877 million, of which IFAD has provided $321 million. These projects have directly impacted more than 1.8 million rural households.
Read more information on IFAD's work in the Philippines IFAD has invested in rural people for 40 years, empowering them to reduce poverty, increase food security, improve nutrition and strengthen resilience. Since 1978, we have provided about US$20.4 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached some 480 million people. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency based in Rome - the UN's food and agriculture hub. .

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IFAD and the Philippines to invest $95.1 million in agribusiness development to increase incomes and reduce rural poverty

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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has signed a financing agreement with the Government of the Philippines to reduce poverty and increase incomes for 469,200 rural people in 20 of the poorest provinces in Mindanao and Eastern Visayas regions.

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One Mindanao - January 8, 2012 (RESEARCHED BY: JAVIE ABENDAN)

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URL: https://issuu.com/piamindanao1/docs/one_mindanao_-_january_8__2012
Title: Raising Dependents
Date: January 8, 2012
Key info: This discussion focused on the government's efforts to help 30,000 Davaoenos run for education, as well as the city government's plan to spend $60 million on a stamp of good housekeeping for priority projects and basic requirements to assist Filipino families dealing with loss.

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PIA- MindanaoFollow this publisher - current follower count:58

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An Electronic News Magazine of PIA Mindanao

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Network Briefing News | Pagpapababa ng poverty rate sa Northern Mindanao (RESEARCHED BY: JAVIE ABENDAN)

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URL: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=272711110855825  Title: Pagpapababa ng poverty rate sa Northern Mindanao
Date: August 9, 2019
Key info: In Mindanao, there has been a significant reduction in poverty. Every three years, a poverty survey is conducted. Poverty was 32 percent in 2015, but it was just 17.3 percent in 2018. In 2018, we met our 2022 poverty rate objective.

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Network Briefing News | Pagpapababa ng poverty rate sa Northern Mindanao

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Rebuilding education and peace in Mindanao - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre by Karlo Caubang

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Title: Rebuilding education and peace in Mindanao

Url: https://devpolicy.org/rebuilding-education-peace-mindanao-20170920/
Author: Imelda deinla
Key info: "An estimated 10,000 displaced children from the recent Marawi conflict will be unable to attend school this year. There is genuine fear that out-of-school children are vulnerable and at risk of being recruited by extremist groups. The education deficit in ARMM is so serious that only one in ten students will complete high school."

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Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

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Rebuilding education and peace in Mindanao - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

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Ella’s story, and what has happened in Marawi, illustrate how education poverty perpetuates conflict and the ‘poverty trap’ in Mindanao.

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Title: "Investing in skills to promote inclusive growth in mindanao", A world bank study: Looking at TVET's role in promoting inclusive growth in mindanao.
Url:https://www.tesda.gov.ph/Uploads/File/TVET%20Brief%202020/TVET%20Brief%20Issue%20no.%201_World%20Bank%20Study%20on%20Inclusive%20Development%20in%20Mindanao.pdf
Key info: The World Bank has discussed the role of technical education and skills training in improving the socioeconomic landscape of the Philippines' poorest region, Mindanao. The region is considered to be some of the poorest places in the country by the World Bank's Social Protection Policy Note (SPP).

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Title: Being a Social Worker

Url: https://www.worldvision.org.ph/blog-for-children/social-worker-story/
Author: Jhoy Maung
Key info: "Working with World Vision now as Program Officer is the coming together of all the lessons I learned as a social worker. Advocating for the betterment of children in the communities of Misamis Occidental is humbling. The need in many communities in Mindanao is massive but this calling reminds me that this world is still full of kindness."

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I became a licensed social worker 16 years ago. Throughout these years, I have learned that the measurement of being effective is not on how long we have been working but on how we touched the lives of others. I have worked with different agencies in Mindanao, been assigned to different far-flung areas where the only mode of transportation was a single motor. Through those experiences, my skill in doing community organizing and in dealing with people in different walks of life was honed. I learned to be flexible, to be more understanding and patient when the situation calls for it. I learned to be more emphatic but at the same time be able to detach myself from many emotions so that I can be more objective in my decisions.

Working with World Vision now as Program Officer is the coming together of all the lessons I learned in the past as a social worker. Advocating for the betterment of children in the communities of Misamis Occidental and helping ensure that their parents and their communities are able to support their well-being is humbling. The need in many communities in Mindanao is massive but this calling reminds me that this world is still full of kindness. In one of the schools that World Vision works with, we have recently constructed three units of communal toilet. The installation of a water facility is also on the works. Imagine the number of children who had to endure months and years of not having all these. Think about the consequences of lack of water to their health. Thank God for generous donors and partners, we are able to make a difference in these areas. As a social worker, I live for moments like this - seeing positive changes in the communities.

This calling is not always easy though. I love working for the children because I am also a mother. There are times, however, when I can't be with my own kids because of this. My children grew up seeing me only during weekends. I would travel for six hours every Friday afternoon and go back to work in the early morning of Mondays. There was a time when I went home and cried hard when, upon entering our home, I saw my youngest child already walking. I wasn't there when he was learning how to do it. I am one of the happiest mothers when the organization implemented the work from home initiative every Friday. That meant more time for my children to see me around the house.

I know there is so much more to learn, more heartbreaks and probably bumpy roads ahead, but this is a calling I'd gladly respond to every waking day. Despite all the challenges in our profession, hearing thank you from the community is enough. Seeing their lives transform for the better and knowing that God is pleased and honored with it is my reward.
Written by: Jhoy Maung / Misamis Occidental Program Officer / World Vision
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Blog For Children | Being a Social Worker

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Despite all the challenges in our profession, hearing thank you from the community is enough. Seeing their lives transform for the better and knowing that God is pleased and honored with it is my reward. Written by Jhoy Maung, World Vision Program Officer in Misamis Occidental.

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PSAX-IG-2022-01 2021 First Semester Poverty Statistics (RESEARCHED BY: KARLO CAUBANG)

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Title: First semester 2021 poverty statistics
Url:http://rsso10.psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/PSAX-IG-2022-01_2021_First_Semester_Poverty_Statistics.pdf
Key info: "Poverty threshold, a Filipino family with 5 members in north Mindanao needed on the average 11,920 pesos monthly to meet their basic food and non-food needs in the first semester of 2021.

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Title: Mindanao Skills Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction
Url:https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33182?show=full&locale-attribute=fr
Author: World Bank
Date: May 30, 2018
Key info: The World Bank's Mindanao Jobs Report presented a comprehensive strategy for regional development that will support sustainable peace and development, including job creation. One of the core recommendations of the report is to boost human development, specifically by addressing the growing skills shortage and rising inequality. The World Bank has been working closely with MinDA to generate discussions and identify priority actions on HRD.

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Republic of Philippines : Mindanao Skills Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction

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This report consolidates written outputs from the Technical Assistance to Support the Elaboration of Mindanao Human Resource Development (HRD) Strategy, which was requested by the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and undertaken by the World Bank under the auspices of the Australia-World Bank Partnership Development Trust Fund.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRcUA_kGISQ

Reporter: Elijah Joseph C. Tubayan.

Published: Nov 11, 2010

Key info: In Davao and in the Zamboanga Peninsula, across the highlands and all the way to the remote coastal villages of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) Project of the ILO has helped a generation of poor men and women optimize their human potential, stimulating economic empowerment and sustaining peace and development.

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Breaking Through Poverty: The TREE Project in the Philippines

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Unlocking Mindanao’s Potential (RESEARCHED BY: HUGO ENRIQUEZ)

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4wVvOUwSQE
Title: Unlocking Mindanao’s Potential
Author: World Bank
Date: April 7, 2018

Key info: Unlocking Mindanao’s Potential to solve the poverty in Mindanao. There are 40% of Philippines agricultural goods came from Mindanao, this can give us a big impact of solving poverty, we just need to raise our agricultural productivity and improve connectivity, while doing that we need to improve our quality of basic educations and promote peace so that entrepreneurs will start giving jobs to the people of Mindanao.

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Dexter Balsamo (RESEARCHED BY: NELSA AHADI)

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Url: https://youtube.com/channel/UCY0CIrXr81PtZfzxelB_LSg

Title: Dexter Balsamo Youtube Channel
Author: Dexter Balsamo
Date Started: April 29, 2012
Key info: Dexter Balsamo was a student at PCNHS school located in Pagadian City. In his vlog, he shares his ideas about what the TVL strand is all about together with his friends.

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The Speech on Importance of Vocational Education  (RESEARCHED BY: NELSA AHADI)

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Url: https://www.assignmentpoint.com/other/the-speech-on-importance-of-vocational-
education.html
Title: The Speech on Importance of Vocational
Author: Assignmentpoint
Date: Unknown
Key Info:  Vocational education helps you strengthen your abilities and will be beneficial in building a stable job. Your regular academic studies will be completed if you obtain training through vocational courses. It focuses on teaching practical skills and hands-on training for specific jobs. It is also rapidly evolving, generating skilled and trained workers for certain vocations.  In addition to their core education, students will obtain these practical skills, perform better in interviews, and be more self-motivated and confident. It also employs a variety of educational approaches, such as formal, non-formal, and informal learning.

Occupational courses are a pleasant surprise since they allow students to strengthen and grow their natural abilities and talents. Vocational education, also known as technical or career education, offers students with skills and information that will aid them in their future efforts. It also allows persons who are poor, differently-abled, or women to generate self-employment.

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Fight the poverty, not the poor ( RESEARCHED BY: NELSA AHADI)

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Url: https://justseeds.org/graphic/fight-poverty-not-the-poor/
Title: Fight the poverty not the poor
Author: Jack Curtis
Date: September 2018
Key Info: This poster is knocking and calling attention to the world's poverty issue.

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Brace Yourself Vocational Training is Comming (RESEARCHED BY: NELSA AHADI)

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Url: https://memegenerator.net/instance/55054076/winter-is-coming-brace-yourselves-vocational-training-is-comming
Title: Brace yourself Vocational Training is Comming.
Key Info: This meme claims that vocational training is difficult because it focuses on skill enhancement and provides more hands-on learning and practical experience.

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Url:https://youtu.be/6QxLnIGzqCI
Title: Dukha
Author: Aegis
Key Info: The Aegis created this song to draw attention to and awaken everyone to how difficult it is to live in poverty.