Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional - INFOP
(National Vocational Training Institute)

http://www.gob.hn/portal/poder_ejecutivo/descentralizadas/infop/

The National Vocational Training Institute -INFOP- was created by decree 10 in December 24th of 1972 as an autonomous institution with legal status and own patrimony. It was created in order to offer training services to the Honduran workers.

INFOP has the goal of participating in the process of integral development of the country as a direct responsible of a dynamic, modern and audacious training of human resources.

Its mission is to train human resources according to the real needs of the new millennium. The training incorporates scientific and technological processes in order to contribute to the country’s integral development.

Its vision is to be the leader institution in the human resources training of the country.

Its goals are:

1. To contribute to the increase of national productivity and to the economic and social development of the country.
2. To establish a national system of vocational training for all sectors of the economy and all level of employment according to the national plans of social and economic development.
3. To direct, control, supervise and evaluate the activities towards the vocational training in the national context.

INFOP has a Technical Cooperation Unit that seeks to promote mutual support that allows scientific, technical and human exchange in the vocational training system.

Honduras: alignment between the vocational training systems and adult education p. 49

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Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region Montevideo, 2001.