Vocational Training Legislation

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Norms and Interviews on Vocational Training in some Latin American and Caribbean countries

Introduction

The Consultant Humberto Henderson is in charge of this database, which is the result of a process that had two stages. In the first one, under the general assistance of Hector Hugo Barbagelata and the support of national contributions,a summary of the interviews to social actors and a systematic compilation of the norms regarding vocational training (in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay) was incorporated in the web page of CinterNet/Cinterfor/ILO.

In the second stage, some changes are introduced in the systematisation and the legislation of Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Trinidad & Tobago is included.

The database includes the legislation considered more relevant from each country. The legislation was selected according to its hierarchy, validity and application. Even though in some cases other norms such as regulation and resolutions of less hierarchy were included. It is important to point out that only norms related to vocational training are included in this compilation, therefore norms, which have secondary references to the topic, are not included.

The current systematisation includes the more relevant aspects of the legislation such as general principles and definitions that guide the policies of promotion and the international labour agreements ratified closed to the legislation (section I); the government agencies in charge of planning, supervising and/or controlling policies and actions of vocational training (section II); the institutions of vocational training, its functions and its means of direction (section III); the resources that finance vocational training institutions, the financing of particular training activities and the incentives to enterprises and students (section IV); the modes of vocational training such as vocational and technical education, contracts that include work and training and training activities for particular groups or sectors (section V); the evaluation methods and the certification of workers and students under training(section VI); the complete legislation of each country (section VII); and finally a miscellaneous section that includes interviews with social actors of some countries and a summary of the training projects and programmes from Ministries oriented to young people, unemployed, women, rural groups, small and medium enterprises and other particular groups (section VIII).

This legislation database is not presented as a finished work, on the contrary, it is conceived as another phase, which requires later work and updating in order to incorporate more Latin American and Caribbean countries and to offer a complete information on vocational training for all users and researchers.

The editor establishes that all legal texts that appeared in this work are respectful of the original documents that each country provided (the documents were provided by Ministries, vocational training institutions, or those in charge of the national contributions.) Due to the fact that almost all norms come from information technologies, there can be some involuntary difficulties in their transcription or conversion.

 

 

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