SENAR is an institution of private law, "paraestatal" (public institution which operates outside the State) linked to the National Agriculture Confederation. A tripartite deliberative council integrated by representatives of the government, the rural employers and the workers, with the same number of counsellors, directs it.

The goals of SENAR are to organize, administrate and execute the rural vocational training and the social promotion of men and women, young and adult that work in the rural areas of all the country.

The SENAR is responsible for the actions in vocational training as well as in social promotion. These two fields allow SENAR to develop integral activities, expanding benefits for workers and small rural producers. SENAR acts in a decentralized way and has as principal collaborators the rural trade union.

The activities of SENAR are organized and developed in a systematic way following a process of planning, execution, evaluation and control. Its educational activities are based on the development of the rural people as citizenships and workers in a general perspective of growth and social welfare.

The methodological principle of SENAR is to form and promote rural people focusing on the need of an educational process where practical activities are of vital importance for learning.