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Casanova, F.
Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2004
157 p.

ISBN 92-9088-179-8
US$ 12.00

(Also available in Spanish)

 

The new local development approaches have opened up great opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies, which have been the subject of searching debates over the last few decades. When we consider young people not so much as a statistical category, or as a group with certain disadvantages that make it more difficult for them to find employment, but more as active participants in their own development and that of the community, we will be closer to the target of having integral strategies for training and for promoting decent work. When we pay more and better attention to the individual characteristics of local districts and societies and their productive networks we will know more about the problems and the opportunities which young people have, and we will be nearer the objective of training which is more pertinent and useful, and of better quality.

However, and beyond the emphasis that the book puts on the training and employment of young people, the approaches described and the experiences outlined here open up areas for reflection for the whole field of vocational training. The main one is probably the idea of restoring training to an outstanding role in relation economic and social development. This is as important as the assertion that training can do more than just passively adapt to the changes caused by globalization and the consequences for the community; it can aim at transforming situations that are very often adverse.

 

CONTENTS

Prologue

1. The interconnection between globalisation and local development

2. The dimensions of local economic development

3. Different regions, specific productive networks

4. Local economic development strategies as a new space to connect training with work

5. The relation between training bodies and local economic development processes

6. Training and employment strategies for young people: approaches from local development

Policies of training and employment for young people: a historical balance
Should youth training and employment policies be local?
The territory as a fertile space for constructing new institutional arrangements
Training and employment for young people: a mainstreaming component of local development

7. Vocational training institutions at the service of the productive networks: Three examples of good practices

7.1. SENAI: the example of Santa Catarina
The municipality of Joinville in Santa Catarina
CTEMM (Electro-Metalworking Technology Centre) and its contribution to industrial development in the region
Incubators of technology-based enterprises

7.2. SENA in Colombia: a knowledge organisation
The National System for the Incubation and Creation of Knowledge Enterprises
Enterprise incubators
SENA's role in the construction of the National System for the Incubation and Creation of Knowledge Enterprises
The process whereby technology-based enterprise incubators become associated to SENA
Mechanisms for financing initiatives
A concrete example: The Antioquia Incubator of Technology-Based Enterprises

7.3. The INA's contribution to a local-based sustainable tourist industry in Costa Rica
The development of the tourist industry
The INA: A strategic asset for a policy of training for the development of tourism in Costa Rica

8. Conclusions

Bibliography

 

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