| Date: | 2009- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The programme seeks to insert to the workforce to people living in situation of vulnerability or poverty, unemployed, as dependent workers or self-employed. Furthermore, the programme operates through the development of occupational and personal skills, and an active support on job seeking. Finally, the design and implementation of the programme was suported by Chile Foundation. For people aged between 17 and 29 years old, exists the programme "I Work Young", that complements these actions with funding for transport, certificates, procedures, appropiate clothing, among other items. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | People living in poverty or vulnerability, older than 29 years old, unemployed or seeking jobs for first time, inactive or with precarious jobs, with at least uncomplete primary education. |
| Area of intervention: | Vocational and professional training Labour intermediation services |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | 1) Proxy means test 2) Categoric: unemployed people or with precarious works |
| Instrument of selection: | Social Household Registry (Decree 22, 2015) |
| Comments: | People who have a disability, head of households, indigenous people and other regional criteria are prioritized. In addition, the Social and Labour Diagnostic Instrument (IDS) is applied in order to identify skills and abilities to be developed during the intervention period. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Excempt Resolution No. 02460 (2012) |
| Responsible organization(s): | FOSIS/ Ministry of Social Development and Family |
| Executing organization(s): | FOSIS/ Ministry of Social Development and Family |
| Source of funding: | Government of Chile |
1) Social and labour training
| Recipient(s): | All programme beneficiaries |
| Description: | Execution of personalised plans for labour inclusion, which includes workshops, counsellings and individual assistance, in order to develop personal and labour skills. |
2) Labour intermediation services
| Recipient(s): | |
| Description: | This component is implemented via the Municipal Offices for Labour Inclusion, that are those responsible to manage an intensive job seeking and facilitate the contact between the employers and the potential worker. |
Evaluación de Impacto de los Programas de Empleabilidad del Fondo de Solidaridad Social (FOSIS) del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
| Author: | Centro de Microdatos |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Publication info: | Departamento de EconomÃa, Universidad de Chile |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
