Technical and Vocational Education and Training: an Essential Pillar for Latin America and the Caribbean Productive Industrial Policy
The analysis is organized in 6 sections besides this introduction. The first presents a short overview of the education and training levels in Latin America and the Caribbean. The second section considers the stage of adoption of digital and green technologies by the business sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. The third section discusses how the demand for qualified workers has evolved in the region, confronting the needs of the business sector to the prevailing labour competences, with a special focus on the demand for skills and competences in emerging new technologies.
The fourth section discusses the role of TVET Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to attend the demands of the business sector, with a focus on two aspects: (i) the institutional and governance context, (ii) the funding mechanisms utilized by these institutions to perform their mandates. The following two sections analyse 7 TVET institutions cases of strategies, capabilities and the demand of the business sector in supporting digital (SENAI, Brazil, SENA, Colombia, Guatemala and SENATI, Peru) and green transition processes (INA, Costa Rica, Ministry of Labour, Chile and INFOTEP, Dominican Republic). The final section presents some reflections about the TVET challenges face and the related policy implications to strengthen the role of Vocational Training Institutes as an effective conduit of industrial transformation in the light of emerging new technologies.
