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Formujer Programme
A training policy model for enhancing employability and gender equity: The Formujer Programme

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2004
283 p.

ISBN 92-9088-177-1

 

The purpose of the FORMUJER Programme (Programme to Strengthen Technical and Vocational Training of Low Income Women in Latin America) is to promote and strengthen the capacities of the institutions of the region to design and implement policies intended to improve the quality, relevance and equity of training for work and increase the employability of women and men, paying special attention to the training and labour insertion needs of low income women.

To achieve its objectives, FORMUJER has developed a model for intervention –to which this volume is devoted– that makes an objective in itself of the systematisation, spreading and transfer of the developments, results and lessons learned, that become specific products, among which the FORMUJER publications are included.

The purposes of this document are:

* supplement the conceptual, methodological and strategic rationale of the proposed model of intervention, articulating it with the Conceptual and teaching materials Series;
* present its design and structure;
* analyse the process of implementation of the model proposed and the Programme, going further into depth regarding the different strategies applied in each country;
* outline the main results of execution up to mid-2003, in overall terms and, basically, in qualitative terms;
* share, responding to the conviction that gave rise to and guided both its design and its action, the reflections and learning that have been gathered over the five years of execution.

Table of contents

Introduction
1. Frame of reference
2. FORMUJER Publications: mode, composition and some guidance for reading
2.1 This Publication
2.2 Some suggestions for reading

I. Challenges and opportunities of a vocational and technical training policy in Latin America at the turn of the century
Introduction
1. The new reality of labour: living with uncertainty, heterogeneity, exclusion and redefinition of gender relations
2. Contextualisation in Latin America: high unemployment, growth of informality and of the participation of women and their interdependence
3. The impact of changes in vocational and technical training in Latin America

II. A model of training policies for various areas of intervention and multiple players: The Regional FORMUJER Programme
Background
1. The regional and institutional scenario in which the Programme is inscribed
2. Design and objectives of the Regional Programme
3. Rationale for the intervention model adopted
4. Design of the general intervention strategy
5. Implementation of the FORMUJER model: principal approaches and methodological developments
6. Implementation of the FORMUJER model: components, lines of action and its main contributions and products
7. Principal results attained in the implementation of the intervention model and in focalising and improving the employability of the target population
8. Some lessons learned
9. Transfer and sustainability of the model and the experience

III. Strengthening the institutional and personal project as an objective and methodology of intervention. FORMUJER Argentina
Introduction
1. The intervention scenario
2. Rationale of the intervention model adopted
3. Design of the intervention strategy
4. Implementation of the intervention model from the central level and in local contexts
5. Principal overall results attained and lessons learned
6. Reflections on the sustainability of the model proposed

IV. Gender policy as an institutional innovation strategy and an educational technology model. FORMUJER Bolivia
Introduction
1. The intervention scenario
2. Rationale of the intervention model adopted
3. Design of the intervention strategy
4. Implementation of the FORMUJER model
5. Principal results attained
6. Lessons learned
7. Dissemination and sustainability of the intervention model

V. Gender mainstreaming as an instrument and condition for the promotion of a systemic approach to institutional policy and modus operandi. FORMUJER Costa Rica
Introduction
1. The national and institutional scenario in which the FORMUJER Programme is inscribed
2. Rationale of the model adopted
3. Design of the intervention strategy
4. Implementation of the intervention model
5. Principal results attained
6. Some lessons learned
7. Sustainability and transference of the intervention model

 

 

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