Youth Education - Youth Employability (YE-YE) Project
The Department of Labor and Employment of the Philippines partners with private businesses who will provide the youth with opportunities to pursue a post secondary course through tuition fee advances while being afforded formal workplace experiences.
- Affiliation
- Government
- Contact No.
- (+63) 2 528 0119
- Address
Maribeth E. Casin, Chief, Young Workers Development Division, 9th Floor G.E. Antonino Bldg., T.M Kalaw cor J. Bocobo Sts. Ermita, Manila, Philippines
- Email Address
- mecasin@dole.gov.ph
- Website
- http://www.bwsc.dole.gov.ph/bwscweb/special-projects/youth-education-youth-employability-ye-ye-project
1. Source of funding
Public-Private Partnerships
2. Mission and Objectives
To address the education-to-employment needs of the youth by envisioning them as being educated, endowed with proper work habits, disciplined and highly employable.
1. To address the needs of the disadvantaged youth to pursue an academic or technical-vocational, post-secondary course towards becoming more employable and more productive members of the labor force.
2. To support human capital build-up by providing the youth some workplace experience while studying.
3. To develop among the youth proper work values and ethics through exposure to formal workplace situations and challenges under responsible adult supervision.
3. Areas of work relating to youth employment
Skills and employability, Apprenticeships, School to work transition, Public-Private partnerships
4. Partners and areas of partnerships
Jollibee Foods Corporation
5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO
Jollibee Foods Corporation
6. Successful youth employment interventions
DOLE will partner with private businesses and educational institutions to provide youth with a work placement experience in conjunction with a stipend and interest free tuition loan for attending a post-secondary educational institution. The business partner will provide the youth with a schedule that allows them to work when not attending courses, likewise, the educational partners shall provide a flexible schedule so that the youth participant can work while studying.