Colombia will certify, free of charge, 6,000 people in skills for work

In the midst of the Skills Summit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Deputy Minister of Employment and Pensions, Andrés Felipe Uribe Medina, announced that the Saber Do Vale program for the recognition of labor skills has 6,000 places.

He said: “With the budgetary effort we have made, we have already benefited 3,000 people, including nationals and migrants, and we currently have 3,000 quotas and another 3,000 for the next year.”

He added that “at least 30% of the program's beneficiaries must be Venezuelan migrants.”

It should be noted that Saber Hacer Vale is an initiative led by the Ministry of Labor that certifies, through the National Learning Service SENA, the competences acquired by people throughout their lives, taking labor competence standards as a benchmark.

Registration for the program is very easy and those interested must attach the following requirements:

The objectives of the program include certifying skills to facilitate access to the labour market; evaluate and validate knowledge and knowledge; promote social inclusion, mitigate xenophobia and discriminatory treatment of migrants and vulnerable populations. Participants can obtain benefits as guidance to determine the competency standards in which a person can be evaluated for certification, they also provide incentives that facilitate their stay in the program, and connect certified individuals with public and private employment platforms of the productive sector.

Beneficiaries receive intensive care incentive, which incentive is intended for people who have children, adolescents (up to the age of 17) or older people (60 years or older) or persons with disabilities in their care, which prevents them from correctly advancing the certification and training process.

It is also about connectivity with which it seeks to have access to the internet and thus be able to participate in the Saber Vale Program in the virtual mode. They also have a food service that guarantees the delivery of food support for the duration of the competence assessment and certification process.

Likewise, they give one for the development of the training, but they give it to the beneficiaries who carry out a training day after the evaluation process, either to improve their level, or prepare for a new call.

The requirements to be eligible for the Know-Do Voucher program must be over 18 years of age and meet at least one of the following requirements:

Be a mother or father head of household: They have permanent responsibility for minor children or persons with disabilities to work.

Take care of people:

Anyone who thus does not have a direct family link, is solely responsible, economically and socially, for anyone under the age of 18, and/or for people over 60 years of age or older, and/or for persons with disabilities.

To be young between 18 and 28 years old:

This condition is accredited through the identity document. You must be of age at the time you register for the program.

Belong to a population group with an ethnic focus:

Anyone who identifies as Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, or Rrom — Gypsy.

Belonging to the LGBTIQ+ population:

Anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, non-binary, or with any diverse sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

Be a senior citizen (age 60 or older):

This condition is accredited through the identity document. You must be of age at the time you register for the program.

Being migrants:

Any foreign person who enters the Colombian territory and is regularly in the country.

To be returned:

Any Colombian citizen who returns to the country and is registered in the Single Registry of Returnees (RUR).

Be classified in levels A, B or C of the Sisbén.

The consultation and evidence of the Sisbén document will be done directly by the program operator