The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is mandated to provide quality technical education and skills development programs in the Autonomous Region. Specifically, TESDA aims to strengthen technical education to achieve local and global competitiveness, focus on meeting demands for middle-level workers, and encourage critical thinking. TESDA shall manage and regulate the Technical-Vocational Education and Training sector through accreditation, compliance audits, and trainer training. It shall also address gaps in technical education through community skills training, ensure quality standards, and conduct competency assessments and certification of workers.

1. Mandate
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is mandated to provide quality
technical education and skills development to the people in the Autonomous Region. As such, it shall:
• Promote and strengthen the quality of technical education and skills development programs to attain local
and global competitiveness;
• Focus technical education and skills development on meeting the changing demands for quality middle
level manpower; and
• Encourage critical thinking by imparting scientific knowledge among middle level manpower.
Powers and Main Function
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority shall:
• Manage and regulate the Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector in the ARMM
through accreditation and registration of all TVET program offerings, compliance audits, trainers’ and
assessors’ trainings, among others. The Authority, in the performance of this function, shall apply the
national established accreditation and registration procedures and requirements until the TESDA Board
shall have adopted relevant policies, rules and regulations on the matter.
• Address gaps in the formal TVET sector through the conduct of skills trainings in its training centers and
in the communities.
• Ensure TVET quality through the provision of standards and system development services relevant to
global, national and regional demands provided that regional standard shall not be less than that those set
by TESDA National.
• Conduct of National Competency Assessment and Certification of workers and TVET graduates.
• Develop comprehensive training syllabi incorporating desirable work values through the development of
moral character with emphasis on work ethics, discipline, self-reliance and deep sense of nationalism; and
• Promote and encourage partnership with various stakeholders, LGUs and other civic organizations in
order to ensure the effective implementation of the powers and functions of the Authority.