(Lima, May 19th, 2016).- The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, the Swiss Government, and Nestlé subscribed a commitment for institutional cooperation in order to give dual training and insert into labor market to beneficiaries of “Jóvenes Productivos” Program with the aim of developing and strengthening labor competences of low-income young people from 18 to 29 years.

Twenty young people will improve their competences and skills in this learning method focused in the company, reported the minister, Daniel Maurate.

“The dual training has big benefits for young people who face problems of access to formal labor market and information asymmetries, in a county with high rates of labor informality that hit vulnerable groups“, he said.

The dual training is a dynamic and flexible learning strategy, based in dual training model that alternates the development of capacities between a work environment (company) and academic environment (training entity -ECAP) that allows the learning and strengthening of competences to improve productivity and adequate insertion of young people in labor market.

The ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion approved last February, the action plan of dual training and this system is being implemented in a group of 40 low-income young people with the National Industrial Work Training Service and Panificadora Bimbo from Peru.

The minister, Daniel Maurate participated in a panel that analyzed pending issues in the labor and education sectors during the first Pacific Alliance Youth Summit.

Maurate highlighted the importance of investing more financial resources in human capital, for which MTPE is working on building of technical and transversal competences (social-emotional) and mitigating the lack of articulation of training offer and labor demand, through “Jóvenes Productivos” Program, and “Ponte en Carrera” Observatory and Service of Vocational Orientation and Occupational Information (Sovio).