Months after the Subcontracting Partners for Innovation Network (SPIN) program was rolled out to cleared conflict areas in the Visayas, residents in Cebu who have been beneficiaries of skills trainings conducted by the Cebu Gifts, Toys, and Housewares Foundation (GTH) have been starting to deliver booked orders from exporters.
The SPIN program is spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry Region 7 (DTI) upon a directive from President Gloria Arroyo.
Initially, the program has been rolled out in Central Visayas wherein the raw materials used by the program’s beneficiaries are subsidized by the Cebu-GTH Foundation.
Aside from providing the raw materials, Cebu-GTH Foundation led by its past president Jenifer Cruz from the 33 Point 3 Exports Inc. provided the technical assistance in the aspect of sending trainers and training the residents coming from six initially identified marginalized areas in Cebu.
The municipalities of Tuburan and Balamban in the North were the pilot areas of this intervention.
After DTI’s training needs assessment, there has been 33 cleared conflict areas in the whole Visayas shortlisted for the program upon the approval the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) particularly by the 78th Infantry Battalion.
Elias Tecson, the point person for this program here in Cebu said that their trainings is focused on a “market driven” scheme wherein the products to be made by the trained group are actual export orders already so that the training outputs pass the quality standards of the Cebu GTH member-exporters.
The trainees will have immediate purchase orders (POs) which would mean immediate earning for them.
He said that the trainings jive with the needs of most exporters because most of the time they do not have enough workers to finish the job orders of their clients so they need to sub contract some of these processes.
As of November this year, the SPIN program has been rolled out to 12 municipalities in Cebu and 14 trainings conducted have already benefited 673 beneficiaries since June.
The municipalities include Talisay City, Tuburan, Minglanilla, Balamban, Carcar City, Medellin, Borbon, San Fernando, Tabogon, Aloguinsan, and Bantayan.
In Talisay City, 25 beneficiaries were been able to deliver 35 percent of their P101, 000 purchase orders as of September.
Tuburan had 160 beneficiaries with booked orders worth P265, 000 from four exporters and so far they have delivered 65 percent consolidated orders.
Minglanilla’s 45 beneficiaries who have booked orders worth P80,000 has delivered 50 percent.
Carcar City with 43 beneficiaries have booked orders worth P121,250 while Borbon which has 53 beneficiaries have booked orders worth P95,000, and Aloguinsan with 52 beneficiaries has been able to make sales worth P200,000 already.
In Balamban, participants are members of the 78th IB who will later on become trainers in their assigned areas while other areas will still send samples to their respective exporters.
There were five trainings conducted last month and these were focused on hand weaving skills such as basic skills on basket weaving and related handicrafts.
After trainings are done in Central Visayas, training coverage will be expanded to Region 6 (Western Visayas) and Region 8 (Eastern Visayas)
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