It is a parastatal institution under private law,
linked to the National Confederation of Agriculture, directed
by a Tripartite and Joint Deliberative Council and integrated
by representatives from the government, rural landowners and workers
with an equal number of members.
SENAR's objective is to organise, administrate
and execute Rural
vocational training (RVT) throughout the country together
with the Social promotion
(SP) of youth and adults and men and women who carry out activities
in the rural environment.
SENAR offers advice to employing entities to devise
and implement on-the-job training programmes and spread Rural
Vocational Training methodologies. In the same way, it coordinates
and supervises the execution of Training programmes and projects
and it provides the federal government with advice in terms of
Rural Vocational Training and Social Promotion. Apart from offering
advice to the small producer it seeks to bolster rural population's
interest to remain in the rural environment and improve their
level of production.
Rural vocational training activities are developed at different
rural production sectors and actions are executed in places that
are closely related to real working situations. Therefore, participants
play a major role since the main methodological principle focuses
on the need to act through an educational process where practice
becomes a key element for learning.
www.senar.org.br
Colombia
NATIONAL TRAINING SERVICE (Servicio Nacional
de Aprendizaje) - SENA
The National Training Service (SENA) carries out the State's function
of investing in the social and technical development of Colombian
workers by offering and executing free Comprehensive Vocational
Training and continuing training services for the integration
and development of individuals in productive activities that may
contribute to the social, economic and technological development
of the country.
Among the programmes and interventions of SENA
in the rural sector, the Occupational Training Programme for Rural
Youth stands out. It develops a large variety of training courses
related to the agriculture, livestock, fishing and agro-industrial
sectors, through interventions that build alliances with governments,
city councils and the private sector. The aim is to focus, co-finance
and ensure settings where practice will take place during the
training process and also to facilitate labour relationships among
the programme's beneficiaries".
Furthermore, the Centros Provinciales de Gestión
Agroempresarial (Province Centres of Agro-entrepreneurial Management
-CPGAE) are spaces where resource management of State policy instruments
is given dynamism; businesses are made and comprehensive technical
assistance is guaranteed (http://www.centrosprovinciales.org/).
Their objectives focus on training and stimulating the special
areas demanded by the productive sector by incorporating new technologies,
creating self-employment, encouraging technological innovation
and development and promoting applied research to improve productive
sectors' competitiveness. Furthermore, conservation and sustainable
usage of environmental goods and services are promoted, as well
as the strengthening of local democracy.
Among other programmes that work on the rural
sector, guidance is provided to micro, small and medium-sized
enterprises (MIPYMES) and vocational training programmes are implemented
for rural women.
www.sena.edu.co
Costa Rica
NATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE (Instituto
Nacional de Aprendizaje) - INA
The National Training Institute develops vocational
training activities in every sector of the economy with the aim
of promoting economic development and contributing to the improvement
of life and labour conditions of the population in Costa Rica.
This implies organising and coordinating the National Vocational
Training System of all economic sectors in the country, designing
and executing programmes and projects that may ensure an internal
and external quality management of INA's services, etc.
The Núcleo Agropecuario (Agricultural Focal
Point) is the technical and teaching unit in charge of research
concerning vocational training, design and assessment needs of
training programmes, as well as the execution of training and
technological transference actions of the Agricultural Sector
throughout the country.
The Núcleo Agropecuario supports its activity
in six main focus areas, each of them being derived from the corresponding
Subsectors (Plant production, Animal production, Agricultural
machining, Business management for the Agricultural Sector, etc.).
In addition, National Specialisation Centres (formerly called
Technological Units) were created as a result of the relevant
technological management process developed as an answer to the
qualitative and quantitative demands of training, both actual
and potential, according to the different agricultural productive
sectors. The aim is to increase continuing competitiveness and
productivity in the Sector in question.
Among the services offered by the Núcleo
Agropecuario the following should be mentioned: technical assistance
through training and advisory programmes to improve the competitiveness
of PYMES and also the design, creation and execution of programmes
that aim at improving business management.
www.ina.ac.cr
Ecuador
ECUADOREAN OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING SERVICE (Servicio Ecuatoriano
de Capacitación Profesional) - SECAP
The activities carried out by SECAP focus on training
the personnel on duty or the one that is about to enter the organisation
and they are oriented towards the development of abilities and
skills to perform efficiently in real jobs of different economic
sectors. In order to do so, it engages in training activities
for workers and instructors, it coordinates activities with enterprises,
it runs updating courses for workers in their areas of competence
and it does research together with other public and private institutions.
In the Agroindustrial and Industrial sectors,
the Institution is involved in 12 activity areas, such as: metal-mechanic,
automobile mechanic, electricity and electronics, building, wood
and furniture, leather and footwear, heavy road equipment, agricultural
machinery, industrial garment and crafts, textile, graphic arts
and agribusiness. In commerce and services attention is drawn
to 3 areas: management, finance, trading, services and information
technology.
Through the programme Popular Training, the Institution
has expanded its scope of intervention, by assisting the marginal
urban and rural sectors. This programme prepares labour force
in semi-skilled crafts occupations that may bring about the self-generation
of employment.
Moreover, it runs programme "Entrepreneurial
development" through processes of Entrepreneurial Consulting
and Advisory Services, Technical Assistance and Systemic Training
after carrying out the Diagnosis of Training Needs and implementing
the design of training actions, basic training courses for supervisors,
managers and executives in entrepreneurial management for the
small, medium-sized and large enterprises.
http://www.secap.gov.ec/
Mexico
SECRETARY OF LAOBUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY (Secretaría
del Trabajo y Previsión Social) - STPS
Through the support to agricultural workers, the
Secretary of Labour and Social Security designed a free training
service with the aim of finding safe employment alternatives for
this group of workers in their own country and increasing their
possibilities of finding a job.
To achieve this, agricultural workers are offered
training, support to look for employment in agricultural areas
where workers are required, and financial support to aid participants
with transport from their place of residence to the agricultural
areas where they will be hired.
Once the working season ends, beneficiaries will
receive financial support to go back to their place of origin.
Support will only be granted once a year.
http://www.stps.gob.mx
Panama
NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE (Instituto
Nacional de Formación Profesional) - INAFORP
The National Vocational Training Institute of
Panama was created to offer support to plans, strategies, objectives
and goals of socio-economic development of the country in terms
of human resources training and lifelong learning, according to
the technological progress of the entrepreneurial sector and the
labour market.
These are some of its main functions: organising
and maintaining a national system that may ensure vocational training,
doing research, studying and planning vocational training actions
that have priority, strengthening actions coordinated with other
State bodies or institutions, granting vocational training certifications,
etc.
With the aim of facilitating the entrance of Panamanian
men and women in the labour market and turning them into self-managers
of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, INAFORP promotes
a national system of vocational and occupational training that
may encourage the development of training activities in connection
with the needs of the labour market, both in urban areas and the
rural sector. This is done in collaboration with other State entities
(education, labour, environment, agriculture) and non-governmental
organisations, among others.
In the area of technical agricultural training
there are courses on plant production, animal production, agricultural
machinery and agricultural production. Furthermore, among the
main achievements of the institution, there has been an increase
in the number of Educational Farms that provide training to families
that belong to the communities where there are the Farms of the
Sustainable Human Development Programme promoted by the government
in rural areas, which is oriented to the country's most deprived
population.
www.inaforp.edu.pa
Peru
NATIONAL SERVICE OF OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN
INDUSTRY (Servicio Nacional de Adiestramiento en Trabajo Industrial)
- SENATI
The National Service of Occupational Training
in Industry (SENATI) is a vocational training institution that
has the purpose of developing human skills for the productive
and satisfactory performance of the vocational occupations involved
in manufacturing industrial activities and installing, repairing
and maintenance tasks.
It is a private management institution that offers
vocational and occupational training, as well as technical, advisory
and consulting services to contribute to the development of the
national industry and promote a culture of work, everything according
to international quality standards and environment care and strengthening
human values.
SENATI has established vocational and occupational
training programmes at different levels: Operational Technician,
Middle Technician and Higher Technician and its training activities
are oriented to entrepreneurs and personnel of small and micro
enterprises of the following occupational fields: metalmechanic,
garment, dairy products, fruit and vegetable processing, bakery
and confectionery, meat products, fur, footwear, agribusiness,
business management and fishing.
www.senati.edu.pe
Uruguay
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT BUREAU (Dirección
Nacional de Empleo) - DINAE
The National Employment Bureau is an executive
unit of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Uruguay
and its mission is to develop actions that may help to make economic
growth compatible with good-quality job creation and to generate
active employment and vocational training policies that may ensure
continuing and efficient training of the labour force as well
as the development and competitiveness of enterprises and workers.
Its main objective is to carry out research, guidance
and training actions that may facilitate labour insertion of workers
with unemployment problems and improve the quality of vocational
training. In order to achieve so, the intention is to coordinate
actions with workers, entrepreneurs, government and organisations
so as to provide answers to the needs of such sectors. Therefore,
the National Employment Board (JUNAE), integrated by the PIT/CNT,
Entrepreneurs and Government, together with the financial support
of the Labour Retraining Fund, has launched a series of programmes
in order to address the needs of those sectors with greater employment
difficulties.
Regarding interventions in the rural sector, the
Labour training programme for rural workers is executed by an
Agreement made between MEVIR and DINAE (with funds from the Labour
Retraining Fund) and is oriented to improve the labour situation
of rural workers by means of training actions designed according
to the employment needs detected in each area.
The Programme seeks to cater for the local demands
of dependent manpower training (due to lacks in the available
offer or because of the appearance of new production modalities,
techniques and categories). In addition, it promotes the acquisition
or improvement of technical knowledge that may result in better
self-employment opportunities and the use of appropriate technologies
to favour productive adjustment. It further invests on training
as a way of creating new job posts within a framework of small-scale
productive projects supported by the use of the Rotation Fund
of MEVIR, which is meant for rural workers.
Activities are carried out with the participation
of local population organised in MEVIR Support and Participants
commissions. Other interested local organisations and institutions
also take part in the activities.
http://www.mtss.gub.uy/dinae.htm
COUNCIL OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
UNIVERSITY OF LABOUR OF URUGUAY - UTU
Uruguay's Polytechnic Schools (UTU) have the institutional
objective of providing basic and intermediate technological education,
catering for the needs of human resources training through technical
certification at an intermediate or higher level or by means of
training, updating or improvement actions and enabling the access
to higher education studies. Some of its most important functions
are: complete education on manual and industrial technical knowledge,
complementary education for workers, applied arts education and
contribution to the improvement of existing industries and the
assessment of technical competencies.
Among its training activities in the Rural area,
there are several Middle Vocational Education courses, Higher
Vocational Training courses and short training courses. A course
that stands out among the rest is the Rural Technological Upper
Secondary Education. It is a three-year educational offer that
has a reasonable equivalence with upper secondary education diplomas
and is attended at rural schools where the contact with agricultural
technology favours the achievement of appropriate learning standards.
In addition, its curricular content adds a rural technological
complement that facilitates a better progress towards university
and higher education studies (School of Agronomy, Veterinary Science,
Sciences and UTU Technical Courses).
http://www.utu.edu.uy
