Integrating Community-Based Approaches to Employment Promotion into National Training Systems

A national workshop in collaboration with the HEART Trust/NTA
and the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Kingston, Jamaica, 5-9 May 2003

It is well documented that local and national economies can be enhanced by promoting the self-employment potential of people. Implementing this recognition through specialized activities associated with occupational and entrepreneurial skills has been the thrust of community-based approaches to employment promotion and, in particular, Community-Based Training (CBT). The CBT approach can best be described as being non-country specific, flexible, and pragmatic, able to be adapted to the specific needs of the community where it is introduced. The need for sharing this methodology globally becomes increasingly important as knowledge and skills linked to employment-driven microenterprise development becomes a social safety net for populations unable to access formal long-term skill programmes. Exploring the role of CBT and current best practices for application in the Caribbean will be the focus of the proposed workshop.
The immediate objective of the national workshop is the development of participants as facilitators with the necessary skills to develop the capacity to replicate and integrate community-based training strategies into their national vocational training system or training organization.

 

 

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