This glossary of terms intends to provide the TESDA key players, partners, and stakeholders an online and updated TVET information, concepts, to bring common understanding and clarification on the use of TESDA terminologies.
| CONCEPT/TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Gender |
the socially learned behavior and expectations associated with the two sexes. It also refers to the socially differentiated roles and characteristics attributed by a given culture to women and men.
Source: PSA refers to the roles and responsibilities of men and women that are created in the family, society, and cultures. Source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics 2013 |
| Gender Analysis |
refers to a framework to compare the relative advantages and disadvantages faced by women and men in various sphere of life, including the family, workplace, school, community and political system.
Source: PCW Memorandum Circular 2011-01 |
| Gender and Development Mainstreaming in TVET |
integration of GAD perspective into the analyses, formulation, monitoring, and evaluation of TVET policies, programs and projects in the development agenda, with the ultimate goal to achieve gender equality.
Source: UN |
| Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) |
refers to efforts to ensure people from all backgrounds, including women and gender diverse people, people with a disability and people facing another form of marginalization, can equitably access, use, contribute to, influence and benefit from the design, development and governance of TVET. A GEDSI lens is used to prevent unintended harm, exclusion and further marginalization of at-risk groups, and to promote their rights, equitable opportunities and benefits
Source: The Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as cited in the TESDA Circular No. 039, s. 2023 |
| Gender Sensitive |
means being able to appreciate the differences between men and women; understand how gender shape their roles in the society, and how it affects the relationship between them. It means becoming aware of gender concerns in order to respond to gender issues.
Source: Philippine Commission on Women |
| General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) |
is a multilateral framework of rules and disciplines aiming for the expansion and progressive liberalization of services trade, based on increasingly transparent and predictable rules and regulations.
Source: https://www.wto.org; www.giz.de |
| Geographic Information System (GIS) |
a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The key word to this technology is Geography – this means that some portion of the data is spatial.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2018 |
| Ghost Candidates for Assessment | refers to persons who are listed/reported in the MIS 03-02 and in the Registry of Workers Assessed and Certified (RWAC) but did not attend the assessment as verified by TESDA. Source: TESDA Circular No. 004, s. 2024 |
| Ghost trainees | refer to persons reported to have attended the training for the purpose of obtaining payment of the corresponding scholarship allocation, but upon verification by TESDA are found to be fictitious Source: TESDA Circular No. 004, s. 2024 |
| Ghost Training | refers to training reported as held solely for the purpose of obtaining payment of the corresponding scholarship allocation, but upon verification by TESDA was not actually conducted. Source: TESDA Circular No. 004, s. 2024 |
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