Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) - El Salvador (Ratification: 1995)

The Committee notes the first report of the Government on the application of the Convention and the report received in May 1998. It notes with interest that the Constitution of the Republic provides for a system of vocational training (article 40) and that under the terms of the 1993 Vocational Training Act, management and coordination of the vocational training system is the responsibility of the El Salvador Institute of Vocational Training (INSAFORP). Bearing in mind its comments on the application of Conventions Nos. 88 and 122, the Committee would be grateful if the Government in its next report would indicate how effective coordination is achieved and by what means links are established between vocational guidance and training policies and programmes, on the one hand, and employment and the public employment services on the other (Article 1, paragraphs 1 to 4, of the Convention).

In general terms, the Committee requests the Government to provide extracts of reports (for example, on the activities of the INSAFORP), surveys, inquiries and statistical data which would allow it to form a better idea of the manner in which the provisions of the Convention are applied. In particular, the Committee would be grateful if the Government in its next report would provide as detailed a reply as possible to the questions indicated in the report form with regard to Article 1, paragraphs 2 to 5, Article 2, Article 3, paragraphs 1 to 3, and Article 4.

Article 5. The Government in its report refers to a programme of apprenticeships run in cooperation with employers' and workers' organizations. The Committee would be grateful for further information on the cooperation of employers' and workers' organizations and of other interested bodies (for example, non-governmental organizations and other intergovernmental organizations) in the formulation and implementation of vocational guidance and training policies and programmes.