| Date: | 2007- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The programme aims to contribute to the labour inclusion of women, delivering tools to overcome the main access barriers to get in the labout market. Thus, the programme offers and articulates different services to the participants, such as: labour training, vocational training (between 80 and 300 hours), labour intermediation, entrepreneurship support, studies leveling, access to care services and dental health. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Women aged 18 to 65 years old who belong to the first three income quintiles |
| Area of intervention: | Technical and professional training Remedial education (leveling of studies) Labour intermediation services Support to self-employment |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Proxy means test |
| Instrument of selection: | Social Household Registry (Decree 22, 2015) |
| Registry of recipients: | All programme participants |
| Comments: | Changes in the intervention strategy due to the health context: The program expanded its delivery modality from face-to-face to remote and mixed. The implementation of the components incorporated the telematics or internet, which allowed the participation of all registered users, who met the requirements and had the connectivity and equipment to access and enjoy the services considered in the Program. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Law No. 20,595 |
| Responsible organization(s): | National Women Service and Gender Equality (SERNAMEG) |
| Executing organization(s): | Local Districts |
| Source of funding: | Government of Chile |
1) Job training workshops for dependent and self-employed women.
| Recipient(s): | All programme participants |
| Comments: | Labour training is executed by the National Service of Training and Employment (SENCE) |
| Description: | In these training sessions, participants can acquire tools for their personal and professional development, knowledge of labor rights and receive support to improve their employability. For women who are dependent workers: there is concrete support for the job search, such as knowledge of the labor market, improving their job profile and resume preparation, and preparing for job interviews, among others. For women who are self-employed: practical support to develop business plans, knowledge about the support network for entrepreneurship, application to competitive funds, access to marketing channels, among others. |
2) Access to a network of support for employability.
| Recipient(s): | All programme participants |
| Comments: | Labour training is executed by the National Service of Training and Employment (SENCE) |
| Description: | Each woman prepares a work project, with which, depending on her profile and the availability of vacancies in the commune, she will be eligible for some of the following benefits: Training in trades. Leveling of basic and intermediate studies: instances of leveling of primary and secondary studies are generated in three descriptions: adult education programs developed in the Centers for Integrated Adult Education (CEIA), Free Exams and the flexible description offered through the Chile Califica program. Childcare: Preferential access to nurseries and kindergartens (JUNJI or INTEGRA) is offered to participants' children while they are working or training. Children must be between 3 months and 2 years of age to enter nurseries, and in the case of kindergartens the age must be between 2 years and 5 years and 11 months. Digital literacy. Dental care: The participants were able to access the benefits provided by different lines of primary care services developed by the Ministry of Health. The preventive health check-up covers the conditions included in the AUGE-GES Plan and is carried out at the health care center where the beneficiaries are registered. On the other hand, dental, ophthalmologic and mental health care is provided by the Ministry of Health through the Primary Care Resolutivity Program |
3) Intersectoral work with support to improve employability conditions.
| Recipient(s): | All programme participants |
| Comments: | There are agreements with FOSIS and SERCOTEC to set exclusive seats on their training programmes to the participants=s. Local governments assist to this component through their Productive Development Agencies. |
| Description: | Links with municipal employment offices, Sence, FOSIS, National Cultural Heritage Service, JUNJI, Integra, among others. " |
EVALUACIÓN SECTORIAL “APRESTO LABORAL PARA MUJERES”
| Author: | DIPRES |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Publication info: | Executive Summary. Final Report. Santiago, Chile. |
| Link: | |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Capacitación laboral para la autonomía económica de mujeres en situación de pobreza. El caso de Chile.
| Author: | Muñoz Rojas, C |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Publication info: | Serie Asuntos de Género No 149, CEPAL, Naciones Unidas, Santiago de Chile |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General study |
Evaluación de impacto. Programa Nacional de Mujeres Jefas de Hogar
| Author: | Guernica Consultores |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Publication info: | |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation and results |
