National Service of Training and Employment - SENCE

SENCE

Servicio Nacional de Capacitación y Empleo - SENCE
(National Service of Training and Employment)
www.sence.cl

The National Service of Training and Employment is a state decentralized technical agency linked with the government through the Labour Ministry.

Its objective is to promote the development of workers labour competencies in order to contribute to an adequate level of employment, improve workers and enterprise productivity as well as quality in processes and products.

Its mission is to contribute to the increase of national productivity promoting vocational training both in enterprises and in people of low income from the country.

This task is accomplished through the administration of fiscal incentives that the state offers to the enterprises to train its personnel and through a fellowship-training programme financed with public resources.

The main directives of SENCE are the administration of the mechanism of training demand incentive to enterprises through tax exemption and the coordination of the programmes of training fellowships directed to low income sectors. These programmes are executed through training institutions, universities, educational institutes and centres of technical education.

Nowadays, SENCE is focusing its work on expanding the coverage of the programmes and intensifying the entrepreneur training activities, promoting the joint and equitative participation of entrepreneurs and workers. SENCE is also working on course quality and information on the system.

To contribute to the enforcement of these purposes, in 1997 the National Congress approved unanimously a new statute of training and employment (law 19.518). This normative introduced a series of modifications and new instruments that tend to modernize and project Chilean Training System towards the future.

Chile Barrio Programme: support to inhabitants of irregular settlements p. 63

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