The Department of Trade and Industry will submit to President Rodrigo Duterte its policy recommendations on improving industries, promoting livelihood, and creating more jobs.
These policy recommendations are the outcome of Trabaho, Negosyo, at Kabuhayan (TNK)-Employment and Livelihood Summit, launched by DTI and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Taguig City on Thursday.
The TNK Summit gathers various policy recommendations from the sectoral summit such as the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Summit, Manufacturing Summit, Philippine Construction Congress, and Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) Summit.
“We want to identify the strategies to increase employment levels, improve access to employment opportunities, and address our skills requirement,” DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez said.
The two-day summit also gathers government, private sector, and academe to develop a national employment program which supports National Development and Security Strategy geared towards the Philippine Development Plan for the new administration.
“We hope that together, government, business and the academe, can craft an action agenda that we can all pursue at the start of next year,” added Lopez.
The DTI chief also highlighted the department’s new industrial strategy which aims to link manufacturing, agri-business, tourism, IT-BPM, and logistics.
“Government is cognizant that we should make these industries attractive to investors hence, the action plan will allow us to prioritize,” he said.
Lopez likewise stressed the need to further develop the country’s human capital in order to match skills with the requirement of various industries. (PNA)
