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BULLETIN 142
Strategic alliances for training

January-April 1998

 

(Full text available in Spanish only)

 

THIS ISSUE

The job market's fluctuations force vocational training to anticipate the new and urgent requirements for worker training; at the same time, they summon the mobilisation of efforts, the designing of policies and the promotion and coordination of alliances between the social actors involved: government, employers and workers. A task that corresponds to the State is that of providing the setting and adequate incentives for enterprises to raise the participation level in an effort to optimise the qualification of the labour force; enterprises should take up the responsibility of formulating policies, as well as carrying out programmes that assure a quality training that is adjusted to the reality of labour; it is fitting that workers, through their trade unions, participate in a more dedicated manner in instances of decision-making and, through negotiation, perform their corresponding role in the promotion of policies and activities of training.

All of this process implies the need to modernise traditional organisational manners adopted up to the present, leaving room for the development of an open and flexible market of training initiatives, attributing greater autonomy to enterprises, to those that furnish training, to make a decision in accordance with signals from the market. A more adequate approach between syndicates and enterprises will contribute to improvements in human resources, which will be reflected in terms of productivity. All of that points out the importance of opening paths toward strategic alliances between: the public and private sectors; centres of work and training centres; central levels and local levels; between enterprises interested in resolving common problems; between training institutes and social organisations; and, especially, between employers and workers.

The notes that make up this special issue are papers presented in the Seminar on Strategic Alliances for Training, held during the development of the 33rd Meeting of Cinterfor's Technical Committee (Santiago de Chile, May 1997) and which was organised together with the ILO's Policy and Training Systems Service.

 

 

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