OPERATIONAL AREAS

Youth employment and the transition from school to work

The core element of action here has to do with integrating the basic education system, technical education, certified vocational training, dual training, apprenticeship in enterprises and labour insertion for youth.

Emphasis will be placed on the articulation of vocational training with basic education and labour policies.

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Youth, training and employment

Youth and gender

Trade union with youth

Lifelong learning for employability and citizenship

This will involve in plant training, including small enterprises as well as cooperative enterprises, national qualifications frameworks and training and certification in labour competencies as part of ongoing training for employed and unemployed workers, to respond to demands and opportunities in the labour market.

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Training and productivity

PROMES - Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System

Small and medium-sized enterprise

Labour competence

Quality management, relevance and equity in training

The Centre will work on mechanisms to ensure quality, and measures of relevance and equity, as interdependent dimensions of the work of vocational training institutions, with a view to optimizing the use of public and private funds allocated to human resources development.

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Quality management in training

Gender, training and work

A training policy model for quality and equity improvement

Quality and equity in rural areas (in spanish)

Training for the employability of vulnerable groups in the informal, domestic and rural economy

The Centre will examine the needs and possibilities to modify educational and training systems to facilitate access to decent jobs in the formal economy -including enterprise development- for social groups with low levels of education and scant opportunities to access formal vocational training programmes for gender, ethnic, language, geographical, cultural, social, special needs and other reasons.

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Training and informal economy

Informal economy and vulnerable groups

Training and rural development

Social dialgoue and strenghthening of employers and workers organizations in vocational training

The Centre will continue and intensify its comparative analyses of the diverse mechanisms and experiences whereby the tripartite constituents of the ILO participate in the planning, management and execution of vocational training programmes. This also applies to efforts to make employers' and workers' organizations better able to participate in defining policies and running vocational training, and to developing collective bargaining in this sector, with special emphasis on negotiating training in the workplace.

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Social dialogue and vocational training

Employers training and enterprise

Trade unions and training

Integration processes, homologation of job profiles and national qualifications frameworks

In relation to the different regional integration processes and migration agreements, the Centre will tackle the need to achieve progressively greater coordination among national training and human resources development systema and to develop competency certification programmes and mechanisms that have regional or sub-regional validity.

Most of latinamerican countries deal with the possibility of developing national qualifications frameworks (NQF). In the European Union progress is made towards the development of a european qualifications framework.

The exchange of european and latinamerican experiences with their respective articulations to the competence recognition systems makes possible to identify relevant and feasible practices for local contexts.

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National Qualifications Frameworks

Labour competence

The use of new information and communication technologies in vocational training

The Centre will intensify information sharing about innovative experiences in the use of ICTs -such as institutions' web sites, virtual classrooms, training by Internet or by mobile phone- to reach a wider target group of workers, to make the training offer more flexible in function of the conditions and characteristics of the labour supply, to improve the quality and effectiveness of curricular design, to evaluate the relevance of current models of e-learning, mobile training and decentralizaed training to develop trainers' and workers' competencies.

Learning community (in spanish)

Learning and teaching in the Internet age. Distance learning and new technologies for vocational training

Financing and investment in vocational training

The Centre will identify and apply research methodology on sources of funding as well as comparative analysis of the impact of differente financing mechanisms, such as taxes, payroll-based contributions, charging enterprises or users in accordance with the laws and practices in each country. The outcome of such experiences will be analyzed with a view to influencing the design of public policies, encouraging the investment of both public and private resources in training and employability and measuring its real impact.

Financiamiento de la formación profesional en América Latina y el Caribe. Un estudio comparativo de buenas prácticas