The Pacific Alliance Education for Employment Program (PA-EFE) in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru was a seven-year $16-million program to strengthen socio-economic opportunities for men and women in a sustainable and inclusive extractive sector.
What we did:
Starting in 2016, we connected 22 Canadian colleges and institutes with technical institutions in the Pacific-Alliance countries through 16 institutional partnerships and technical assistance projects. The partnerships gave 12 Pacific-Alliance institutions the opportunity to learn from their Canadian counterparts (and vice-versa) and helped better align post-secondary education, training, and applied research services in the four countries with the needs of the private sector and students.
Because of our work, beneficiaries in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru – in particular women – have access to a higher quality and greater diversity of training options as well as vocational bridging support services to improve employability.
Eleven TVET institutions in Pacific Alliance countries now have strategies, policies, and procedures to support gender equality and the empowerment or women and girls in place.
Our Impact at the Ministerial Level:
We also helped systematize policies, guidelines, and best practices to strengthen governance across the extractive sector, working with over 3,000 representatives from the public and private sector, leaders and educators from the extractive, education, environmental sectors, and Indigenous communities of the four member countries.
Through capacity building within ministries of education and national campaigns promotion of TVET, nearly 30 million people were exposed to the possibilities of rewarding careers in the extractive sector.
Key Partners:
- Pacific Alliance Technical Groups (Education, Labour, Communication and Gender)
- Ministries of Education, Labour, mining and energy from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru
- Beneficiary TVET institutions of the PA-EFE program in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
