| Date: | 2004-2011 |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The specific objectives of the PROEMPLEO programme are to introduce an agile mechanism for job training and labour insertion oriented to the specific demand of potential employers; to create a labour intermediation system that facilitates the link between job seekers and employment opportunities; to improve the knowledge of the labour market in the country; and to support the consolidation of a process of transformation of the STSS from a body mainly oriented to the administration of labour conciliation aspects to one oriented to the promotion of employment and the modernisation of the labour administration in terms of regulation. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Unemployed and underemployed people between 18 and 29 years of age, who are actively seeking employment and who have at least three years of schooling. |
| Area of intervention: | Technical and professional training Labour intermediation services |
| Geographic scale: | National |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Project Coordinating Unit, Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Executing organization(s): | State Secretariat in the Office of Education |
| Source of funding: | Interamerican Development Bank (IABD) |
1) Training for Employment
| Recipient(s): | Recipients of the programme |
| Description: | Mechanism for job training and job placement oriented to the specific demand of potential employers. |
2) Labour intermediation system
| Recipient(s): | Recipients of the programme |
| Description: | Labour intermediation system that facilitates the link between job seekers and employment opportunities, as well as improving knowledge of the labour market in the country. |
3) Modernization of labour administration
| Recipient(s): | |
| Description: | Process of transformation of the STSS from a body mainly oriented to the administration of labour conciliation issues to one oriented to the promotion of employment and the modernisation of labour administration in the field of regulation. |
