Colombia

Do Public Employment Services improve employment outcomes? Evidence from Colombia

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The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org

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Career guidance and employment services

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Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.

Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.

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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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14 Apr 2016

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The paper assesses the effects of participation in the Public Employment Service (PES) in Colombia by means of propensity score matching. The results show that participating in the PES increases the probability of having a formal (rather than informal) job. Around two thirds of this effect is related to the fact that PES participants are generally placed in larger companies. By contrast, participation in the PES has a negative effect on hourly wages. This derives from a positive effect on the wages of the low-skilled and a negative effect on the wages of the high-skilled. For both formal employment and wages, the PES has a more positive effect when the services are provided face-to-face rather than online.

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Vocational training

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Aprendizaje y políticas de transición de la educación al trabajo para jóvenes en América Latina y El Caribe

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															Aprendizaje y políticas de transición de la educación al trabajo para jóvenes en América Latina y El Caribe
													

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Spanish

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ILO

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Youth employability

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Globally, nearly 68 million young women and men are looking for and available for work, and an estimated 123 million young people are working but living in poverty. The number who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) stands at 267 million, a majority of whom are young women. Significantly, young people are three times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed.

Skills development is a primary means of enabling young people to make a smooth transition to work. A comprehensive approach is required to integrate young women and men in the labour market, including relevant and quality skills training, labour market information, career guidance and employment services, recognition of prior learning, incorporating entrepreneurship with training and effective skills forecasting. Improved basic education and core work skills are particularly important to enable youth to engage in lifelong learning as well as transition to the labour market.

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22 Feb 2016

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La presente publicación constituye una contribución de la Oficina de la OIT para el Cono Sur de América Latina a través del Programa de apoyo a las políticas de empleo y formación de jóvenes en el Uruguay y de OIT/Cinterfor, al proceso de generación de análisis y reflexión que lleva adelante la Organización Internacional del Trabajo sobre el tema del aprendizaje y las políticas y programas de transición de la educación al trabajo de los jóvenes.

Contiene una sistematización de los resultados de una serie de investigaciones nacionales sobre el aprendizaje y las políticas y programas de transición de la educación al trabajo de jóvenes llevada adelante en Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, México, Perú y Trinidad y Tobago, la cual deja de manifiesto la enorme riqueza y variedad de enfoques y de soluciones prácticas que los países se han dado para procurar posibilitar y facilitar la inserción laboral de su población joven.

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Education and training

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School-to-work transition

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Skills and training policy

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Americas

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Argentina

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Chile

Colombia

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Guatemala

Jamaica

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Peru

Trinidad and Tobago

Los jóvenes y la formación para el trabajo en América Latina

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Los jóvenes y la formación para el trabajo en América Latina

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Spanish

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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.

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Access to training

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.

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29 Jan 2016

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El objetivo del presente documento es analizar las tendencias recientes en el ámbito de la formación para el trabajo en América Latina, con particular énfasis en aquella dirigida a los jóvenes. Con tal fin, se estudian las políticas y estrategias de formación de siete países de la región: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú y República Dominicana.

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Job matching

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Americas

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Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Dominican Republic

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Peru

Colombia: Public employment services in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Colombia: Public employment services in Latin America and the Caribbean

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English

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ILO

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ilo

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Career guidance and employment services

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career-guidance-and-employment-services

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Research papers

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16 Dec 2015

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This document is one of a collection of notes about public employment services in selected Latin American and Caribbean countries. Colombia is a medium-sized country that has experienced steady economic growth since the beginning of the 2000s. As the economy has improved, so the numbers of people living in extreme poverty have fallen; however, income inequality remains widespread (Joumard and Londoño, 2013). Low wages, unemployment and a very large informal sector prevent some categories of workers from improving their position in the labour market, in particular, those with low skills (below secondary education) and with no access to training (ILO, 2013).

This note provides an overview of the main trends and innovations of the Public Employment Services in Colombia.

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Public service

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Colombia

Enhancing youth skills and economic opportunities to reduce teenage pregnancy in Colombia

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															Enhancing youth skills and economic opportunities to reduce teenage pregnancy in Colombia
													

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International organizations

Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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Youth employability

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11 Nov 2015

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The Government of Colombia (GoC) has identified teenage pregnancy as a priority issue. The current strategic framework to address teenage pregnancy in Colombia is outlined in the CONPES 147, effective from February 2012 until March 2014. The CONPES 147 establishes a multi-sectoral framework that aims to address the determining factors of teenage pregnancy within Colombia. Parallel to its work on teenage pregnancy, the GoC released a national strategic framework to generate opportunities for Colombian youth in July 2014. The note includes an overview of the WDR 2012 gender equality framework and World Bank regional study on teenage pregnancy; outlines the Colombian country context with regard to gender equality and youth labor market outcomes; reviews interventions that develop life skills; and highlights how these interventions might be relevant to the GoC policies and programs related to teenage pregnancy prevention (CONPES 147) and youth labor (CONPES 173).

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Disadvantaged youth

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Gender

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School-to-work transition

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women

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Colombia

Evaluación del Programa de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico

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Evaluación del Programa de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico

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Financing of training

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Initial education and training and lifelong learning benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole. Economic principles dictate that the costs for services with public and private benefits should be shared between public and private funding, or else too little training will be provided or taken up. Effective mechanisms for financing skills development vary according to countries’ economic and political circumstances and the degree and level of social dialogue established.

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18 Aug 2015

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Resumen Ejecutivo

El Programa de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico es un programa de cofinanciación de proyectos con recursos públicos de innovación originados en sector privado.

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Financing training

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technology

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Colombia

Case studies on skills assessments in the informal economy conducted by small industry and community organizations

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															Case studies on skills assessments in the informal economy conducted by small industry and community organizations
													

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English

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ILO

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Access to training

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Lifelong learning

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There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.

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Case studies and good practices

Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.

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10 Jul 2015

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Annex to assessing skills in the informal economy: A resource guide for small industry and community organizations

This publication provides case studies from nine countries globally on skills assessment in the informal economy.

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Skills and training policy

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Africa

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Asia and the Pacific

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a strong track record of growth and development, even in times of elevated global uncertainty. A robust demographic dividend, strong ready-made garment exports, resilient remittance inflows, and stable macroeconomic conditions have supported rapid economic growth over the past two decades. A strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continued in FY22, although a recent surge in commodity prices has presented new headwinds.

Bangladesh reached lower-middle income status in 2015. It is on track to graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Countries list in 2026. Poverty declined from 43.5 percent in 1991 to 14.3 percent in 2016, based on the international poverty line of $1.90 a day (1).

Like many of its Asian neighbours, Bangladesh faces a major challenge trying to develop modern, employability skills for tens of millions of young women and men. It has a large informal sector, which accounts for 94.7 percent of the total employment in 2017 (2). Youth continue to be highly affected by the lack of opportunities, with the share of youth aged 15-24 not in employment, education or training (NEET), estimated at 27.8 percent in 2020 (3).

TVET has a huge role to play in equipping the vast young labour force of 15-29 years referred to as the country’s “demographic dividend” with employability skills and providing enhanced support services to ensure a better transition from school to work. TVET may also contribute to reducing poverty by providing employability skills, particularly to those who drop out of school early and to a large number of unemployed and underemployed adults.

Despite many reform initiatives by the government, the TVET sector needs further strengthening through reform of policies and systems in the labour market. Enhancing industry-relevance of TVET qualifications will furthermore require closer Government cooperation with the private sector. For one and a half decade, the ILO has worked closely with the Government of Bangladesh and its Social Partners to reform the TVET sector and to improve access for people to increase their skills and employability, in particular youth, women and people from other marginalized groups.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had detrimental effects on the TVET sector, due to the nation-wide closure of all educational institutes for one and a half years, starting on 17 March 2020. Most students’ learning was effectively abolished for this duration, and learning and certification was only possible through limited online learning facilities in existence at the time. Only recently has the TVET returned to its prior activity level.

The ILO landmark programmes aim to strengthen and improve the environment for industry skills development, address the mismatch between the supply and demand for skills training, and drive the increased employability of millions of young women and men. ILO’s support to develop the skills system in Bangladesh has focused on skills system governance, development of skills policies and qualifications frameworks; delivery of quality skills training, expanding access to TVET, and involvement by the private sector.

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(1) https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/bangladesh/overview

(2) https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/informality/

(3) https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/youth/

Country Assessment and Priority (CAP) – Bangladesh strategy for skills and lifelong learning (2022)

Situation Analysis of Bangladesh TVET Sector (2019) https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—asia/—ro-bangkok/—ilo-dhaka/documents/publication/wcms_735704.pdf_

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Prospectiva laboral cualitativa para el sector construcción de edificaciones en Colombia

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															Prospectiva laboral cualitativa para el sector construcción de edificaciones en Colombia
													

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Governments

Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment

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ILO

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ilo

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.

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Sectoral approaches

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Matching skills to labour market demand requires reliable sectoral and occupational information and institutions that connect employers with training providers. Sector based strategies and institutions have proved effective in engaging all stakeholders in promoting both pre-employment training and life-long learning.

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15 Jun 2015

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El presente estudio tiene por objetivo identificar las necesidades futuras de recursos humanos (ocupaciones y competencias) que surgirán a partir del impacto de tendencias tecnológicas y organizacionales, que se difundirán para el sector construcción de edificaciones en Colombia en los próximos 5 y 10 años. Utilizando la metodología de prospectiva laboral cualitativa del Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENAI) del Brasil y transferida por CINTERFOR, los resultados indican que la apuesta tecnológica se movilizará alrededor de los modelos de construcción sostenible y de edificaciones inteligentes, tomando gran relevancia aspectos organizacionales relacionados a la seguridad industrial y la cualificación del recurso humano. Dichas tendencias repercutirán en la demanda futura de trabajo del sector, a través de la generación de nuevas ocupaciones (ingenieros de domótica, instaladores de infraestructura vegetada, evaluadores de estado y patología, por ejemplo) y de nuevas competencias que se verán reflejadas en nuevas necesidades de formación para el trabajo que promuevan la productividad y competitividad futura del sector.

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Construction industry

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Education and training

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education-and-training

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Sectoral approaches

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Skills and training policy

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Skills anticipation

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Colombia

La certificación de competencias en el marco de las políticas de empleo y formación

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															La certificación de competencias en el marco de las políticas de empleo y formación
													

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Spanish

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ILO

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ilo

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Lifelong learning

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Case studies and good practices

Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.

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15 Jun 2015

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En pocos ámbitos dentro del amplio espectro que cubre el desarrollo de las competencias de las personas se ha tenido una acción y un acuerdo tan explícito, como en la necesidad de reconocer y certificar las competencias sin importar como fueron adquiridas.

En este título se ha querido presentar una selección de experiencias relacionadas con los procesos de evaluación y certificación de competencias. Son muchos los países donde actualmente se lleva a cabo el reconocimiento de competencias previamente adquiridas. No ha sido posible recoger en este volumen todos los casos, pero sin detrimento de que pueda dedicarse otra publicación a las experiencias que aún restan, aquí se presenta una variedad de enfoques y prácticas que muestran la singularidad del mecanismo de certificación como elemento para hacer realidad la formación a lo largo de la vida. Al efecto, este volumen recoge los sistemas y políticas de certificación de competencia laboral en Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, México y Uruguay.

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Employability

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employability

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Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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Skills re-training

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Skills recognition

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Skills upgrading

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															Desarrollo local, tejidos productivos y formación: abordajes alternativos para la formación y el trabajo de los jóvenes
													

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Spanish

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spanish

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ILO

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Youth employability

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skpYoEmp

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youth-employability

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26 Sep 2013

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Gender equality

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gender-equality

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144

Skills and training policy

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skills-and-training-policy

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666

Vocational training

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vocational-training

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