Support Program for the Production-Transformation Process
ARGENTINA
SECTOR: Education
PROJECT NAME: Support Program for the Production-
Transformation Process
(816/OC-AR; 925/SF-AR)
TOTAL COST: $221 million
FINANCING:
IDB $154 million
LOCAL $ 67 million
DATE OF APPROVAL: June 29, 1994
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this program is to
enhance the efficiency of the labor
market and, indirectly, of the Argentine
economy overall by: (a) lending support
for the production-transformation
process in Argentina by preparing
semiskilled labor for occupations with
demonstrated unmet demand, and
(b) enhancing job possibilities and
social participation for people who are
not in the mainstream labor market or
fully integrated into society. The
program will also strengthen employment
offices as a means of promoting contacts
between employers and job seekers and
will contribute to the development of a
bimodal job-training model that combines
classroom instruction with hands-on
training at a work site.
The program will provide vocational guidance
and training and will have four components:
(a) instruct-ion and practical training, a
broad-based activity and the main program
component, which will lay the foundations for
updating the current training system for low-
income young adults who lack job training or
experience; (b) training and technical
assistance for self-employment and microenterprises,
which is intended to encourage independent
work, helping workers who have lost their
jobs as a result of the economic crisis and the
production-transformation process to set
themselves up as self-employed workers;
(c) vocational guidance for entering the job
market, to be provided by the Ministry of
Labor and Social Security, which will respond
to displaced workers' need for guidance in
seeking employment; and (d) strengthening of
employment offices, also to be carried out by
the Ministry of Labor and Social Security,
which will finance activities for the
institutional strengthening of the Ministry's
Under-secretariat for Employment.
CONSULTANTS: Specialized consulting services will be hired
for the component for the strengthening of
employment offices, including the design of
information systems; organiza-tion and
methods; training; physical infrastructure;
and extension and dissemination. Contracts
for training and guidance course packages
will be awarded through international public
bidding.
GOODS AND EQUIPMENT: Equipment for the information systems
and other necessary infrastructure
equipment will be procured.
CIVIL WORKS: Not applicable.
EXECUTING AGENCY: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Public Works
and Services; the Ministry of Labor and
Social Security will act as the Sub-Executing
Agency.
ADDRESS: Hipólito Yrigoyen 250
Piso 5, Oficina 530
1310 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Telephone:(54-1) 349-5303
Fax: (54-1) 349-5306
Contact: Mr. Osvaldo Giordano
