TECHNICAL MEETING
TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING
IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Buenos Aires, Argentina: May 15 and 16, 2008

Information sheet	Agenda	Discussion paper	Presentations
	Final report (preliminary version)

 

There is no doubt that international technical cooperation organizations provided considerable support for the creation of national institutions specialised in delivering vocational training in Latin America. Various bilateral and multilateral cooperation agencies played a predominant role in the setting up of vocational training institutions (VTIs) and in the development of their programmes, classrooms and workshops, in supplying didactic equipment, information technologies and a wide range of resources. It is evident that the training of trainers and technicians and of VTI human resources in general has been enhanced by various cooperation programmes, many of them clearly associated with national technical cooperation agencies.

Since the first VTIs were set up, national cooperation agencies have played a decisive role, and this has left its mark in many areas like the definition of training modalities, pedagogic approaches, institutional modernisation, the fight against poverty and the incorporation of new technologies for training.

Today, at the start of the 21st century, the Latin American and Caribbean countries present a new range of dimensions and areas in which technical cooperation could be effective. Some countries in the region have made progress through their VTIs, and for some years they have engaged in horizontal cooperation to share their experiences with other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and even outside the region. On the other hand, there are still some countries that are in great need of cooperation programmes to promote innovations in vocational training.

The indissoluble nexus between vocational training, the development of competencies and access to employment has positioned training at the very centre of national policies in this field, and this has intensified the demand for new programmes for population groups that are most vulnerable and whose skills and competencies are most in need of development like young people and women. The areas of VTI cooperation are faced with the challenge of continuing to monitor their own needs while balancing these with the offer and possibilities of access to suitable cooperation programmes. An analysis of these needs will contribute to systematising and better coordinating the responses.

 

 

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