Linking to TESDA Certification (Philippines)

If you want TESDA-ready modules or pathways for formal national certification, here’s how it aligns:

TESDA Jewelry Making Courses

TESDA offers national certificate courses in jewelry making that you could use as the formal competency base for broader certification:

Jewelry Making (Fine Jewelry) NC II / NC III

  • Recognized by TESDA as formal skills training modules. (Tesda)
  • Core competencies include fine jewelry fabrication, polishing, plating, and mold making. (Tesda)
  • Key Units (NC II)
    • Fabricate basic jewelry components
    • Polish jewelry
    • Plate jewelry
    • Perform rubber mold making
  • …plus foundational competencies in workplace communication, safety, and quality standards. Tesda

These don’t specifically cover agarwood materials, but you could integrate agarwood-specific content into a TESDA-aligned curriculum or use the TESDA NC II craft competencies as a base for competency assessment.

How to Combine Both

If your goal is a professional credential that is TESDA-recognized yet unique to agarwood craft:

  1. Build the agarwood beads workshop curriculum (as above).
  2. Map the craft units to TESDA Jewelry Making units (e.g., safety, design fundamentals, component fabrication).
  3. Partner with a TESDA-accredited training center to deliver the course and offer NC II or NC III assessment for those units.

This way, graduates get artisan-specific training and government-recognized certification.