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The Philippines Quality for Trade Platform serves as a one-stop quality shop allowing registered users to: discover quality requirements, connect with relevant institutions and individuals, seek pathways to improvements and gain insights from those who have already experienced success. The platform will complement in-country initiatives as an information resource that allows work to continue long after face-to-face trainings are complete.

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The Philippines Quality for Trade Platform has been developed by the International Trade Centre under the ARISE Plus Philippines project with the support of the European Union.

<div>The Philippines Quality Compass tool has been developed by the International Trade Centre. The tool offers users quality-related guidance for specific products in select markets. Discover and learn about quality requirements for your product, whether they are related to mandatory legal requirements, key standards, or preferences in the market.&nbsp;</div>

<div>The Philippines Quality Connect tool has been developed by the International Trade Centre. The tool serves to connect a network of Quality Champions developed under the Quality Champions Programme, quality-related service provider institutions and other individual members.</div>

<div>The Philippines Quality Success tool has been developed by the International Trade Centre with the support of the European Union. The tool serves to showcase Success Stories and allows users to gain insight from those who have already achieved success.<br><br>We welcome you to share your own Success Stories for publishing consideration using the form found at the bottom of the page.</div>

Supporting Quality Management for Trade Success

QUALITY CHAMPIONS

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Discover mandatory requirements, key standards and market preferences for select product-market combinations. Currently mapped products: 

Quality Compass

Connect with relevant institutions or individuals who can offer help or quality-related services.

Quality Connect

COMING SOON: Access a central repository for quality-related information, share best practices and seek pathways to improvement.

Quality Insights

Share success stories and gain insight from those who have already achieved success.

Quality Success

Access user-friendly information about quality requirements at the product-market level.

SMEs

Benefit from enhanced access to tools and capacity building services. Better promote services and link up with other institutions toward common goals.

Quality-related service providers

Access ITC support & certification, share best practices and lessons learned, market services and connect with an expert community.

Quality experts

Discover the world of quality in trade and begin your quality journey.

Quality learners

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<p><em>These handbooks on food safety and quality have been prepared for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Philippines as part of the ARISE Plus programme, financed by the European Union being implemented by the International Trade Centre in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry, Government of Philippines.</em></p>
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<h2>Food Safety Handbook</h2>
<p>Food, with water and air, is the very basis of life. It is our source of nutrition, growth and health. It not only has socio-cultural significance, but also considerable economic and developmental ramifications. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2, and 3 (No poverty, Zero hunger, and Good health and well-being) depend directly on the sufficient availability and affordability of safe and nutritious food.</p>
<p>Due to its universality, and relatively lower start-up costs and investments involved, food offers enormous opportunities for entrepreneurs, and business start-ups in food are very common. At the same time any food operator or business has the responsibility to ensure that the food it supplies will not cause harm to the consumers . Unsafe or unhygienic food can make people very sick, spread diseases, and may even cause death. Due to this, food is also a highly regulated sector where governments assume the responsibility to safeguard the health and safety of their population through laws that set down conditions and parameters for food business operators and their operations. The cost of disease, sickness and premature death takes a heavy toll not only in terms of medical care, but also socially and economically in terms of lost productivity and potential.</p>
<p>Food safety is the foundation of trust in the food business. Enterprises can establish a good reputation built on food safety and quality and derive profit. Small and medium-sized businesses very often do not realize that not applying food safety and quality improvement measures turns out to be more expensive than applying them. In this regard, while hindsight may be good, foresight is better. This means not leaving this important element to chance, or ignoring it, but to actively and alertly plan, implement and pursue food safety from the initial stage of food production, inputs, processing, packaging, storing, distribution.</p>
<p>We hope this guide will inspire more Filipino MSMEs to adopt and implement a food safety and quality-based excellence approach to their food business endeavours, and contribute to their success.</p>
<p><em>Khemraj Ramful Senior Adviser, Export Quality Management International Trade Centre</em></p>
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<p>Quality is a key determinant of competitiveness of business operations and entrepreneurial success. It endows businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage through excellence in products and services. Very often small entrepreneurs are not aware that not applying quality proves more costly than incurring costs of applying quality methods and techniques. From commanding favourable prices, encouraging repeat business and reducing risk and waste, to increasing market shares and profits, the benefits of quality are extensive and significant.</p>
<p>The project aims to he project is to foster inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in The Philippines through improved national trade performance and competitiveness.</p>
<p>We hope this guide will inspire more and more Filipino MSMEs to adopt and implement a quality-based excellence approach to their entrepreneurial endeavours and contribute to their success.</p>

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Download Your Copy Now: Food Safety and Quality Handbooks for Philippines MSMEs

<p>The Quality Champions successfully completed the first session of a comprehensive Training of Trainers in Food Safety course, marking an important step towards enhancing their capacity to impart food safety management knowledge to small and medium-sized enterprises in the Philippines. Led by experienced trainers, the training aimed to equip participants with the necessary skills to design and deliver effective training programs while fostering a conducive learning environment.</p>
<p>Throughout the course, participants focused on achieving key learning objectives, including applying current practices in designing and delivering food safety management training, acquiring facilitation skills to promote learner engagement and critical thinking, and utilizing various methods to address learner behaviors. They also collaborated on designing four course modules that will be readily available for use during the upcoming enterprise support phase.</p>
<p>The training methodology incorporated a blend of interactive techniques, such as face-to-face presentations, videos, case studies, group discussions, role plays, exercises, and individual assignments. This immersive approach aimed to create an engaging learning experience over the course's duration.</p>
<p>The participants, consisting of Quality Champions who had successfully completed the initial three modules of the food safety component, are now better equipped to develop training materials customized for use during the enterprise support phase of the programme and to deliver trainings on topics such as good hygiene practices, HACCP, and ISO 22000 standards to Philippine SMEs.</p>

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After following a long, virtual road, the Philippines Quality Champions gathered together at the Astoria Plaza Hotel in Manila for their first face-to-face training.

Quality Champions Gain Essential Training Skills at Food Safety Training Event

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The International Trade Centre is developing and qualifying experts in quality management together with leading institutions in the field of quality. These experts are called Quality Champions. Quality Champions are trained using the latest tools and techniques for ensuring quality and food safety in a business and implement quality improvement projects in enterprises.

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