SENA. Support to enterprise and worker competitiveness
Four new studies on Colombian economic sectors are launched

 

• They are diagnoses about the competitiveness of sectors such as fishing, agriculture, occupational health and professional risks, forestry chain, furniture and wood.
• It shows the current reality and prospective of the economic, technological, occupational, educational and labour fields of four activities of the Colombian economy.
  
• They were made by Sectoral Working Groups of SENA integrated by entrepreneurs, trade unions and workers.

Bogotá, D.C., 7 March 2006 - These four new studies of characterisation are a tool for Colombian managers in their decision making and design of training actions for human talent in their enterprises.

In addition, training institutions and training departments of enterprises have the necessary information to establish the Labour Competency Standards required for the design of programmes that meet the training needs of national workers.

These diagnoses and sectoral prospective studies show, among other things, the characteristics and trends of the sectors, subsectors, productive chains and clusters of wood and furniture, fishing, occupational health and professional risks, as well as the main environments surrounding national enterprises, in the economic, technological, organisational, occupational and educational aspects.

What studies show

The economic environment shows the volumes of production, exports, the importance of a certain sector in national economy and its participation in the GDP (both national and regional), directly and indirectly generated employment, market trends, products and services offered by the enterprises of the sector and the commercial agreements signed up to now, among other things.
In the technological area, productive processes and technologies used by enterprises are described, together with the main supply and raw materials providers, the quality systems adopted by enterprises and those that should be implemented (for products to become competitive), the evolution and technological perspectives of the sector.

In the organisational field, the following elements are identified: types and sizes of enterprises of the sector, structure, management systems used, relationship with clients and suppliers, entities that regulate the activity, trade union organisations linked to it and the legal framework regulating the sector, subsector or economic activity.

The occupational environment shows the existing occupations, the distribution of personnel according to occupations, levels and Labour Competency Standards, profiles and functions of human resources.

The educational field establishes workers' qualification level, the available programmes of human resources training in the sector, educational and training institutions, composition of the student population and research projects developed in the sector.
These studies were carried out by three of the 59 Sectoral Working Groups set by SENA up to now: Sectoral Working Group of the Forestry Chain, Wood and Furniture; Sectoral Working Group on Fishing; Sectoral Working Group on Agriculture and Sectoral Working Group on Health.

The Working Groups, created and directed by SENA, are spaces provided for entrepreneurs, trade unions, workers, governmental entities, educational institutions, centres of Research and Technological Development to define the competencies that workers need to have - and prove - in order to be competitive in a certain occupation or job post.

How to access studies

Enterprises that are interested in obtaining more information on the characterisation studies and the work done by sectoral working groups are welcome to visit SENA's Web page (www.sena.edu.co).

 

 

 

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