ILO/Cinterfor Senior Specialist in the field of vocational training. His area of expertise covers the organization of vocational training systems and institutions and the processes of demand identification, programme structuring, implementation, certification and votacional training assessment.

He has organized and provided consultancy and technical assistance in Latin American and Caribbean countries in various areas including innovation in vocational training services, design of public training policies, implementation of training and certification by competencies and quality systems in training. Among the recent topics of his work are the updating of certification services and recognition of competencies, the implementation of national qualification frameworks, the measurement of the impact of training, and training monitoring and follow-up mechanisms.

In the host country, Uruguay, it has participated in the design, implementation and coordination of projects on job evaluation and description of competency profiles in sectoral areas such as construction, paper and pulp, among others.

The linkage between vocational training, skills development and productive transformation are part of its recent areas of action, which also include the analysis of the role of vocational training in closing the skills gap in the region.

 

Rodrigo Filgueira
Digitalization and Vocational Training Specialist
filgueira@ilo.org

His area of expertise covers topics such as the digitization of training processes and pedagogical innovation, as well as the effects that the digitization of the economy has on the demand for new skills. He is also responsible for the design and management of the ILO/Cinterfor digital services platform.

He has organized and provided consultancy and technical assistance in Latin American and Caribbean countries in various areas including methodological and digital innovation for vocational training. He has worked in close collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin having served as an official of that center for two years. This collaboration allowed him to coordinate, design, implement courses and assistance for social actors in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, on digitization of education and pedagogical innovation.

The challenges of digital transformation for vocational training are the current focus of his work, which is based on a systemic view that considers the demands of new competencies, the reorganization of institutional processes and the opportunities to offer new services.


Gonzalo Graña
Social Dialogue and Vocational Training Officer
grana@ilo.org  

His work has focused, on the one hand, on research and documentation on social dialogue in and on vocational training in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as on capacity building of social partners for their qualified participation in instances of institutionalized social dialogue on vocational training and employment policies.

Outside the ILO, she has worked in the area of monitoring and evaluation of public policies in the central administration in Uruguay, as well as in applied research in university management.

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