Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1984)

Implementation of policies and programmes of vocational guidance and training. Collaboration of the social partners. In its 2008 observation, the Committee requested the Government to provide detailed information on the manner in which employers’ and workers’ organizations collaborate in extending the system of vocational guidance, ensuring effective coordination between initiatives for the provision of vocational guidance and training and the achievement of employment policy objectives. In the report received in September 2010, the Government provides information on progress in relation to training, the activities of the Directorate of Professional and Vocational Training and the vocational guidance services of the employment service. With regard to the National Institute of Socialist Cooperative Education (INCES), the Government emphasizes that work was undertaken for the unification of the various allied courses and that training models were prepared for the certification of learning and knowledge so that beneficiaries could find employment outlets. Since 2009, a vocational skills certification plan has been under implementation in 184 communes. The Government also provides information on the vocational rehabilitation of workers with disabilities. According to INCES data, during the course of 2008 training was provided to 79,237 people, and during 2009 to 96,788 people through the training programmes of the Che Guevara mission, principally targeting the socio-productive vocational training of young persons. In its examination of Convention No. 142 in the context of the 2010 General Survey concerning employment instruments, the Committee emphasized that consultation with the social partners in both the design and implementation of training policies and programmes is imperative for the full application of Convention No. 142. The involvement of local communities and the private sector, including through public–private partnerships, is key to the successful design and delivery of effective training policies and programmes. The Committee requests the Government to include detailed information in its next report on the manner in which, in accordance with Article 5 of the Convention, the cooperation is ensured of the social partners and of representatives of communities and the private sector with the view to achieving the objectives of the Convention (Article 1, paragraphs 2–4). The Committee once again requests the Government to supplement the report with extracts from reports, studies and surveys, statistical data, disaggregated by age and gender, etc., on the policies and programmes designed to promote access to education, training and lifelong learning for people with special needs, such as young persons, the low-skilled, people with disabilities, migrant workers, older workers, indigenous peoples, ethnic minority groups and the socially excluded, as well as for workers in small and medium-sized enterprises, the informal economy, the rural sector and in self-employment (Part VI of the report form and Paragraph 5(h) of the Human Resources Development Recommendation, 2004 (No. 195)).