Young people: comprehensive training program to favor social and productive labor market entry. INSAFORP. El Salvador
To contribute to the socio-economic integration of young people in social risk, through training and guidance, in order to facilitate the entry to the labor market or being self-employed.
Young people between 16 and 25 years with different educational levels, from marginal communities from 13 municipalities.
Several programs converge through the establishment of a comprehensive vocational training option for the social and productive integration.
The selection process includes psychological testing and career, exploring personality traits, occupational interests, aptitudes and abilities.
There is a diagnosis of the opportunities and training needs of the communities to be served, in order to define the training to ensure the expected impact. Young people are trained in the abilities to work, business, center and /or lifelong learning.
The form of empowerment, addressed to young people unskilled or with a very low level of education, aims to train them for a semi-skilled role.
In the business-center mode training is done in alternation. It aims to empower young people who have at least 9 years of formal education, it has a duration of 6-24 months and learning practices in companies are regulated by contracts made under current work law.
The type of lifelong learning takes place in the workplace and in training centers and is intended to improve and / or upgrade the skills of workers in a company.
- Community involvement.
- Detection of training needs and business opportunities and employment in communities. It is done with the participation of young people, community leaders and parents.
- Comprehensive approach to the reality of young people and commitment to their social and productive integration. Psycho-pedagogic monitoring.
- Flexibility in the development of the training actions: modality, time and content. Training components in human development: living, values, attitudes and motivation.
- Validation of self-employment as a viable option for unemployed young people.
- Provision of equipment and tools for self-employment.
- Inclusion of childcare centers to facilitate the participation of mothers who could not attend because they have to care for their children.
- Coverage for transportation and food.
- Medical and dental care.
- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in its document "Proposal for a program of urban poverty in El Salvador" suggests that this is the intervention model to care for youth in slum areas.
- Self-employed: expected 40%, 30% obtained.
- It provides a social compensation consisting in performing community work that demonstrates what they have learned in the intervened communities. This contributes to the credibility of the program.
