Vocational Training Council of Rosario and its Region (CCFP) - Argentina

Source: ILO/CINTERFOR

• Establishment

• Objectives

• Activities

Establishment

The Vocational Training Council of Rosario and its Region (CCFP) was created in late 1997. It is a bipartite entity made up by trade union and entrepreneurial organisations. The CCFP is governed by a board of 14 members, 7 of which are representatives of trade unions, the other 7 of employers’ organizations. Through this initiative, workers and employers from different sectors or branches of activities, and a common region, define jointly training needs and decide on actions to be taken.

Objectives

The Council was created with a view to reducing costs, improving the quality of training and promoting workers’ access to training. The objective is the improvement and upgrading of the occupational profiles of all workers, both employed or circumstantially out of work; in the latter case they are retrained.

To achieve its ends, the CCFP intends to undertake the following activities, among others:

• Exchanging ideas, experiences and knowledge;
• Organising congresses, lectures, seminars and courses by specialised individuals and/or institutions for the benefit both of workers and employers;
• Co-operation with universities, Argentine or foreign public and private organisations or international agencies promoting manpower training and upgrading.
• Co-operating and co-ordinating efforts with public or private organisations pursuing the same or similar ends.
• Creation of libraries, newspaper collections. film libraries etc. to make bibliography and knowledge available in all training areas of interest to the CCFP.
• Promoting research, studies and specialised papers in the above areas.
• Developing and conducting job profile diagnoses identifying the basic and specific skills –occupational standards – of general competency tasks, and work posts within them, in different sectors of activity.
• Supporting alliances among firms and enterprises and training institutions in order to bring down the costs of modules, and co-ordinating them to provide occupational outlets saving time and resources for workers and enterprises.

Activities

Among activities on the working schedule of CCFP were, first of all, activities of organisational and institutional consolidation and management with national and municipal authorities; management of foreign technical assistance; management of legal representation of CCFP, solving infrastructure problems. These items were followed by work guidelines for the direct improvement of occupational training in the region, with tasks such as: initial survey of training needs of the public and private sectors regarding basic, general and specific skills; strengthening of the training offer through actions aimed at improving curricula and encouraging competition on the basis of costs and quality of courses, and the installation of sectoral committees to identify specific competencies at the request of sectors.

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