The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved $25 million to improve job placement opportunities in the formal sector for people seeking employment in the country. To this end, the operation seeks to strengthen the employability skills of those seeking work and improve the coverage and quality of the offer of the public employment service, as well as reintegration services for the returned population.
The program will help strengthen the skills of people seeking employment, with emphasis on groups that encounter greater barriers to employment, such as women, young people, people with disabilities, the returned population, and indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples.
In this sense, the program will articulate actions with the productive sector to identify training needs by sector, identify internship opportunities and learning schemes in companies.
The initiative includes technical-vocational education and training pilots for people with disabilities, incorporating their specific needs. In addition, it includes campaigns to stimulate female participation in non-traditional jobs, which are more in demand by the productive sector and have better remuneration.
To promote the labor integration of the returned population, they will provide care to 15,000 returning people of working age and will carry out vocational training and certification of labor skills activities along with actions to improve the conditions of the returned population in the hiring processes.
