Technical assistance
(2017-2018) The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic requested support in identifying the training needs of the production sector. Technical assistance was provided to create an institutional framework for a permanent mechanism to identify and anticipate the country’s training needs.
(2017-2018) The Ministry of Labour of Colombia requested technical assistance with regard to implementing and validating a conceptual standardization process to unify criteria and broker an agreement among the different education and training institutions in the country.
(2016-2017) Chile’s request for support from ECLAC covered two areas. Within the framework of its pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance, the Ministry of Education requested support for discussions to strengthen technical and vocational education and its link with the production sectors. The National Training and Employment Service (SENCE) of the Ministry of Labour requested support to implement and strengthen its labour inclusion programme, “Más Capaz”.
(2017-2018) In Ecuador, a national plan for technical and vocational education and training is being drawn up the by Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation. Technical assistance was requested from ECLAC in that connection. As part of that assistance, three workshops were organized with the technical teams from each department focusing on coordinating technical education at the secondary and tertiary levels, on statistical information systems and on drafting the National Plan. At the same time, qualitative research was undertaken on the educational and professional trajectories of women who complete technical and vocational education programmes.
(2017-2018) At the request of the Ministry of Labour of Argentina, technical assistance is being provided to develop a methodology to identify employment trends and the short- and medium-term demand for skills and competencies by gender on the basis of the employment indicators survey.
(2017-2018) In Uruguay, assistance was provided at the request of the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) to investigate the educational and employment paths of young women graduating from technical and vocational education institutions and to review training programmes that seek to enhance the employability of women living in poverty.
(2017-2019) The work carried out with the countries revealed the need for the sharing of South-South experiences in designing employer surveys to identify labour requirements, and for mechanisms to disseminate employment data. ECLAC has facilitated this process of dialogue by holding virtual meetings with representatives of Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Paraguay.
(2017-2018) The situation of national and regional labour observatories has also been analysed, with inputs from representatives of the Ministries of Labour of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
