Professional training for young people (Projoven)

The project

Over nine years, ProJoven promoted the training of 21,516 young people with a 46.4% employment rate and 15.0% self-employment (entrepreneurship) and a focus on social inclusion, since 56% of the graduates were women and, during the second phase, 10% of young people from ethnic groups (Garifuna and Miskito) were attended. At the same time, thanks to the programme's interventions, public and private institutions diversified their training offer and actively participated in the vocational technical training system; in addition to this, they improved the effectiveness of the vocational technical training system for labour market insertion in the country.

The programme also supported actions such as policy dialogue, the alignment of vocational technical training with productive development policies and the generation of knowledge based on methodologies and approaches based on evidence and experience through the evaluation of their effectiveness in improving the teaching of training institutions. In this sense, the programme coordinated actions with popular workshops, vocational training centres, non-governmental organisations, business and tourism chambers, municipalities and governmental institutions.