Regional Project on Vocational and Professional Training and Labour Insertion - Dominican Republic and Central America

The ILO supports professional training institutions in the Central American and Dominican Republic sub-regions to improve their methodological instruments for developing professional competences in order to the improve public employment services.

The Regional project on Vocational and Professional Training and Labour Insertion includes the following two compoments on labour Intermediation.

Public Employment Service and Labour Migration Monitoring at the sub-regional level

Labour markets in Central American countries and the Dominican Republic have, to a greater or lesser extent, a number of common characteristics: a low qualification of the labor force, lack of decent jobs, various forms of underemployment, and the growth in the number of workers who join the informal sector of economy and who are unprotected. These characteristics, combined with other factors, affect the quality of life of the population and promote inequality, especially among women and youth. This is why the purpose of the project is to support through technical assistance and training the implementation at a sub-regional level of an employment and migration monitoring system.

So far, the results have been the following:
  1. The consolidation and expansion of interagency dialogue spaces at the regional level.
  2. The establishment of a regional network of public employment services, through the staff’s training and the creation of opportunities for the exchange, among countries of the region, of information in the field of employment.
  3. The training of staff in guidance and job placement.
  4. The harmonization of policies and processes for labor mobility.
  5. The creation of an employment portal.
  6. The strengthening of Public Employment Services .
Explanatory document: Public Employment Service and Labour Migration Monitoring at the sub-regional level

Regional Process of skills certification: homologation of certification of occupational skills standards, design of curricula and training of staff
 

The implementation of vocational training policies is essential to promote the employment of vulnerable groups in the region and transform education into a real vehicle to escape poverty. The services offered by vocational training institutes (through tripartite vocational training instances in Central America) enable people to improve their job skills and, therefore, increase the chances of finding a better job and improve their quality of life. Henceforth, the objective of the program is the harmonization and implementation of regionally agreed technical and methodological tools for professional and business training, with a focus on gender, economic development and regional integration. Among the key conclusions of the project, we can find:
  1. The generation of certified and standardized regional methodologies for developing labor skills standards, curriculum development and competency assessment systems. 
  2. The elaboration of occupational competency standards and regional curricula designs.
  3. The development of national processes to detect labor skills shortages in “green” occupations.
  4. The establishment of a regional labor competency standards bank.
  5. The formulation of a regional model of occupations certification.
Explanatory document: Regional Process of skills certification: homologation of certification of occupational skills standards, design of curricula and training of staff 

Objective:


The development objective is to contribute to the institutional strengthening of the employment public administrations of the region, so that they are capable of facilitating integral attention in matters of socio-labor insertion to vulnerable people and groups in Central America and the Dominican Republic, fostering and maximizing the processes of regional integration initiated through the Occupational Training and Labor Insertion Program.

Partners:


ILO Offices / Units: EMPLOYMENT Sector / GENEVA, ACTRAV and ACTEMP, External partners: Central American Integration System, Council of Labor Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic, Professional Training Institutes Network, Labor Ministries of the Sub-region, Professional Training Institutes of the Sub-region