| Date: | 2000- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The National Employment Programme through its different modalities promotes projects to improve the living conditions of the unemployed or underemployed population by promoting labour insertion through the development of skills and capacities in the areas of greatest labour demand, supporting the construction of infrastructure necessary for the development of a community with the help of people who are unemployed, and promoting productive enterprises in those market niches that promote employment. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | People over 15 years of age living in poverty, extreme poverty, vulnerability, unemployment and underemployment. Indigenous populations are also considered. |
| Area of intervention: | Technical and professional training Direct job creation |
| Geographic scale: | National (urban and rural) (with special emphasis on communities with the lowest Social Development Index) |
| Targeting method: | Categorical |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | In the event that a recipient is found to have falsified personal and employment information, he/she will be immediately excluded from the project and the relevant judicial authorities will be informed. |
| Comments: | The benefits of the modalities of communal work, productive ideas and training will have a duration of 3 months, while EMPLEATE will have a duration of 6 months on average. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Executive Decree Nº 29044-TSS-COMEX (2000) Executive Decree Nº 037143-MTSS-COMEX (2012) Executive Decree 35028-MTSS-COMEX (2009) |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Executing organization(s): | National Employment Office |
| Source of funding: | Social Development and Family Allowances Fund |
1) Communal work and Productive ideas
| Recipient(s): | Persons over 18 years of age, unemployed and underemployed, in poverty and/or extreme poverty. |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Comments: | The projects to be supported must arise from the community's own needs in terms of the construction of infrastructure, productive projects or training processes identified by them. The project will be made up of an average of 10 people. |
| Description: | Temporary economic support per month, for unemployed or underemployed grouped into cooperatives, community organisations or non-profit associations involved in a project of community interest, lasting on average three months, which may be extended, depending on the needs of the project. |
| Amount : | 185.000 colones (The amount varies depending on the time of participation: 160 hours monthly, will receive total allowance; 120 hours per month will receive the 75% of the total and, 80 hours per month will be entitled to receive 50% of the total subsidy) |
2) Training support
| Recipient(s): | People over 15 years |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Description: | Temporary financial assistance for persons participating in a communal occupational training project, provided by a formal training institution or accredited by the INA. This includes persons recruited in the National Intermediation Service (Servicio Nacional de Intermediación). |
| Amount : | 185.000 colones |
3) Training "Empléate"
| Recipient(s): | Young people between 17 and 24 years old who are neither studying nor working |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Description: | It allows access to technical and technological education and training programmes in line with the demands of the labour market. |
| Amount : | 185.000 colones |
4) Indigenous people
| Recipient(s): | People over 18 years of age from indigenous areas |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Description: | Temporary financial assistance for indigenous people in infrastructure construction projects of communal interest. |
| Amount : | 185.000 colones |
5) Monetary subsidy
| Recipient(s): | |
| Description: | The programme provides a temporary employment subsidy to those who, as a result of a disaster, suffer the loss of their job or usual source of income, or are unemployed. |
