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Naranjo Silva, A.
Vocational training for youth in Uruguay. The Opción Joven and Projoven Programmes through their assessment experiences

Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO, 2002.
86 p.

(Full text only available in Spanish in pdf format)

 

During the last two decades, the implementation of youth vocational training programmes in different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean turned out to be an alternative, both in institutional and methodological terms. Simultaneously, an ever-increasing consensus rose on the need to know precisely the contribution of these programmes and the relevance of the strategies followed. Starting from a general framework which takes into account and systematizes the diverse conceptual approaches on youth unemployment, the author focuses her work on the assessment experiences of the vocational training programmes implemented successively in Uruguay -first, Opción Joven; and later, Projoven-. The outcome is a good description work of the programmes themselves and their assessment strategies, as well as a set of recommendations for their improvement and the future design of strategies in this same field.

 

CONTENTS

Presentaion

Introduction

FIRST PART
1. Terms of reference

1.1. Labour market entry and youth education
1.2. Youth in Latin America's socio-economic setting and their occupational situation
1.3. Approaches proposed to address the problem of youth unemployment

1) Labour market entry and unemployment
2) Poverty and social exclusion
Social exclusion factors associated to the labour market
3) Vocational Education and Training
Status of formal and non formal vocational training programmes
The rise of alternative vocational training programmes

SECOND PART
2. The Vocational Training Programmes offer for youth in Uruguay

2.1. Existing programmes
2.2. Introduction of the Opción Joven Programme
Description of courses' components

2.3. Introduction of the Projoven Programme
Courses' specifications
Content of courses

3. Assessments of the Opción Joven and Projoven Programmes

3.1. Assessment applied to the Opción Joven Programme
Approach and objectives
Methodological aspects
Assessment results

3.2. Assessment applied to the Projoven Programme
Approach and objectives
Methodological aspects
Assessment results

4. Recommendations for future assessments of this type of programmes
5. Guidelines for a programme of labour market entry

CONSULTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

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