The Philippine Trade Training Center – Global MSME Academy (PTTC-GMEA), the country’s premiere training institution, is set to celebrate its 35th founding anniversary on 22-24 February 2022. The celebration will feature the victories of the Agency for the past year, and will recognize the partners and resource persons who have been part of the Agency’s mission to provide #TrainingForNationBuilding.
The anniversary celebration’s theme is LEAP MSMEs: Learning Ecosystems to Accelerate Progress (LEAP) of MSMEs, which encapsulates our collective desire to improve the lives of Filipino entrepreneurs. The Agency believes that when all of the stakeholders – the government, businesses, industry, and academia create a learning ecosystem for Filipino entrepreneurs, it will not only improve their personal lives, but will tremendously contribute to the nation’s progress.
“As we celebrate PTTC’s 35th founding anniversary this year, we are not only celebrating our rich history, but also project our trajectory towards the future. We ensure that the Agency’s celebration will carve out a path towards a more progressive and inclusive training institution in the country,” Executive Director Nelly Nita Dillera said.
The three-day program will feature series of discussions and learning experiences. As an opening salvo, PTTC will launch some of its training brands, such as the Philippine Skills Framework, ASCEND Aspiring, Homegrown, and Export, Food Connect, DigiFab, Push Start, Payong App, and Complete Women.
The second day of the celebration will revolve on why MSMEs would care about cybersecurity. This will lead to a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between PTTC and TAFA Holdings. Aside from this, a public pitch for Course Refresh will follow.
The Resource Persons and Partners will be the highlight of the three-day Celebration. There will be an upskilling of the former in terms of delivery, style and substance of contents appropriate for MSMEs in these changing times. Both will be recognized for their contributions to the Philippine enterprises throughout the years.
“For our 35th anniversary celebration, we made sure that our stakeholders, the MSMEs and the general public will learn new knowledge and will pick up new ideas from our seasoned and topnotch speakers. We encourage everyone to take this opportunity and join us in our celebration,” Dillera said.
The Philippine Trade Training Center was established on 27 February 1987 through Executive Order No. 133 signed by the late President Corazon Aquino. It was mandated to develop training modules on export and import techniques and procedures, raise the level of awareness of Philippine businessmen on export opportunities and the availability of alternative sources of import products or diversified markets for export, offer specialized courses for specific industry groups directed at overcoming barriers to overseas market penetration, and To conduct training programs in international trade practices, inspection techniques and exhibition mounting.
In 2019, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) expanded the agency’s mandate to also include learning and development for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), hence the Global MSME Academy. ♦
Date of Release: 23 February 2022