Job Skills Equalization Programme (Programa Nivelación de Competencias Laborales (PNCL)) (1999-2008 )

Labour and Productive Inclusion Programmes

Job Skills Equalization Programme (Programa Nivelación de Competencias Laborales (PNCL)) (1999-2008 )

Date

1999-2008

Description

The overall objective of the programme is to help recipients, preferably young and old in poverty, improve their employability through the certification of their abilities. Recipients receive free three support texts prepared by the Ministry of Education and financed and distributed by FOSIS.

Characteristics

Target population

People of 15 years and more, without complete basic education

Geographic scale

National

Targeting method

Categorical (population over 15 years without complete basic education or does not have 1st and / or 2nd secondary education, under the poverty line (according to the criteria established by MIDEPLAN)).

Comments

In both components a module (or subcomponent) of socio- labour training is included, which seeks to develop in participants social and labour skills to perform better in those fields.

Institutionality

Legal framework

Decree Nº6835, Supreme Decree Nº131

Responsible organization(s)

Solidarity and Social Investment Fund (FOSIS) jointly with the Ministry of Education

Executing organization(s)

Municipalities, private institutions (foundations, corporations, NGOs, trade associations, consultants), higher education institutions and social organizations with legal personality

Source of funding

Government of Chili