Technical labour training programme for young graduates – FAUTAPO Foundation Bolivia.
General
To develop a strategy to increase the opportunities for labour insertion, in a job or self-employed of young people from low income families, who are struggling for economic and social integration, through training, education and work experience, based on an appropriate articulation between labour demand and supply of training.
Specific
- Develop technical training with strong links and coordination between the labour market and education, giving the participants certifications relevant to their characteristics and the graduate profile of each occupation.
- Strengthen the institutional capacities of the training offer of TVET, incorporating a comprehensive and entrepreneurial vision.
- Achieve co-financing from different sectors, public and private for the development of the programme.
- Implement a delegated form of intervention to ensure efficiency and transparency in the implementation of the programme.
- Incorporate greater number of women to the programme developing and including strategies and methodologies of positive discrimination in response to their specific needs.
- Promote the creation of national, departmental and local multi-stakeholder instances for the implementation of the program.
- Provide a complete overview on entrepreneurship, to facilitate participants develop their own businesses.
- Develop sensitizing actions of entrepreneurs for human resources technical training.
Young graduates aged 17 to 25 years from low-income households who have completed secondary education but have little or no work experience.
The design and implementation of the programme recovers, systematizes and improves the experience developed in Bolivia by the Foundation for Promotion, Training and Alternative Action (PROCAL), the programmes FORMUJER and Strengthening Technical and Technological Training (PFFTT) of the Ministry of Education.
It develops technical training activities with a strong link between the labour market and education. The pivotal elements of its contents are: long-life education, employability, entrepreneurship, citizenship, equity and the environment.
These are conducted by training institutions (ICAP) selected through bids. The payment to them is by result, to ensure their involvement in the occupational projects of their beneficiaries.
The training includes two phases:
- Training phase. Training is performed at ICAP with a curriculum that lasts up to 5 months and in 5 modules: occupational project, development and/or strengthening of basic skills, training for employability, entrepreneurship training and specific technical training.
- Labor practice phase. It is considered as an alternative learning space and its duration is of 3 months in a micro, small, medium or large business in a real work situation. It includes follow-up visits, feedback workshops, and support to job insertion.
It develops sensitizing actions to companies, and coordinates them with public and private sectors to ensure long-term sustainability.
It develops several actions for continuous evaluation and permanent adjustments to the process (software monitoring, feedback workshops, internal evaluation workshops, etc.).
- Strategies and methodologies to promote positive gender equity.
- Comprehensive training with competency-based approach and focus on the subject of attention.
- Management of multiple stakeholders to ensure sustainability and relevance of the proposal.
- Technical training, internship and job insertion support for young graduates.
- Strengthening training institutions.
- Decentralized execution.
- 81% of job insertion in employment and entrepreneurships.
- 3 operating inter-institutional networks.
- 3 projects on job vacancies underway.
- Impact on national public policies through the transfer of the approach, methodologies, procedures and experiences of the programme to the Ministry of Labor to implement a similar program called "My first decent work".
- A pilot project of technical training for young people with disabilities in the area of clothing had excellent results in terms of job insertion and became a national public policy.
- 14,763 young men and women trained. 53% women (of which 13% are mothers with children under 7 years) and 47% male.
- 613 training activities: 70% in production areas and 30% in services.
- 6 cities: Cochabamba, El Alto, La Paz, Oruro, Santa Cruz, Sucre, involved in the implementation and co-financing of the programme.
- 122 training institutions (ICAP) implement the training actions.
- 1420 teachers and facilitators involved in the programme.
- 4123 MSMEs and large companies involved in the financing and training.
