ABOUT THIS SITE

 

The Training and Rural Development site tries to give an account of the training activities carried out in the rural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as of the programmes and projects related to the economic and social development of rural populations.

The role that regional rural training institutions are called to play goes way beyond mere technical training for working in the rural environment. It also includes, for example, the actions concerned with rural population's effective exercise of their citizenship, health care of rural male and female workers, and the environment, research and technological development care to be incorporated in production activities, among others. Rural training institutions have, in sum, a strategic role to play in the economic and social development of rural areas and countries in general.

Through the Training and Rural Development site, Cinterfor/ILO intends to provide the rural training community of Latin America and the Caribbean with a rich source of information, documentation and knowledge on several aspects related to the activities of rural training institutions in the region. Additionally, the Centre seeks to turn this space into a mechanism of interaction, horizontal cooperation and exchange among all those who, in different institutional settings, are engaged in rural vocational training and the economic and social development of rural communities and areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.

In this site you can find information and documentation concerning the actions developed by rural training institutions and programmes distributed in the following sections:

Rural vocational training institutions and programmes

Presentation and description of Vocational Training Institutions that work with the rural sector together with programmes and/or actions on the rural sector developed by multi-sectoral Vocational Training Institutions.

Training, citizenship and rural development

Section devoted to issues concerning rural training in connection with processes of citizen participation and integration, as well as with the economic, social and local development of the rural population.

This space contains information concerning the following issues

- gender and rural development;
- local development (local rural development programmes that consider training as one of their main principles);
- associationism and cooperativism (experiences and documents related to such ways of productive organisation);
- social programmes (adult literacy, child complementary education, knowledge and exercise of rural population's rights);

Administration, Management and R+D for the rural environment:

Space including the actions carried out by Vocational Training Institutions involved in Research and Development and the support to the productive sector through programmes of Administration and Management, vocational training, development of productive units and chains, etc.

Documents and publications:

Presentation of links to journals, bulletins and documents (studies, research, etc.) concerning several aspects of interest to approach rural training issues such as poverty in the rural sector and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Events

Information on the main events related to training in the rural sector and other topics of interest related to that sector.

Statistical data

Presentation of social, economic and demographic statistics about rural population and production in Latin America and the Caribbean (activity rates, employment and unemployment rates, data on informality in the rural sector, illiteracy and migration rates, etc.).

Links

List of links to Vocational Training Institutions and governmental and non-governmental bodies involved in training and development actions with rural populations.

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