Abinader pushes a technical training consultation for growth and employment

Dominican President Luis Abinader led the Great National Consultation on the future of Professional Technical Training, which seeks to identify the areas of training and jobs that are needed for the development of the nation.

The Great Consultation, an initiative of the National Institute of Professional Technical Training (INFOTEP), seeks to establish and analyze new trends and demands of the national and international productive market, for quality training of the necessary human capital, within the framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0.

During the event, the president highlighted the great work carried out by all the agents involved to successfully develop this strategy of such importance, at such a complicated and complex time.

He stressed that the world is in full transformation and that in order to adapt development strategies and conclude them successfully, the country must be able to anticipate and foresee what the new times demand.

“The fourth industrial revolution is here and requires us all to be vigilant and act quickly. And this implies precisely that we look at vocational-technical training as an essential pillar of the new growth and employment strategy in our country, ”said President Abinader.

Abinader considered that the educational dimension and the employability dimension are two sides of the same coin, where on the one hand there are young people without the necessary training base to successfully integrate into working life and, on the other hand, the lack of technicians and, especially, well-trained entrepreneurs to occupy certain areas of the product and labor fabric.

The head of state also said that, with the help of Infotep, an exercise of capital importance is being carried out to identify these imbalances and, above all, to see how to overcome them.

“We want to know to take action and support change. I am convinced that with this national exercise that we are going to launch, a reinforced awareness of what vocational training can and should contribute to the future of our country will emerge, said Abinader.

He explained that with this joint call that he makes to the country, a synergy is sought in the strategies of all the competent administrations, analyze what is lacking or surplus to identify the skills that the national productive fabric most needs and improve the role that each one can perform to reduce these deficiencies and bring training closer to employment.

“We want to plan well for the future and we want to do it together. That is the final purpose of this national consultation”, assured the president.

The future of technical training

This journey has taken months of organization. Its structure includes the participation of all sectors committed to the well-being of the nation and has three key moments.

The first inaugural act was headed by President Abinader and other authorities of the country and business community representatives.

It ends with a national congress, from which the guidelines proposed by all sectors will come out to materialize the project of turning professional technical training in the country into an increasingly promising, innovative, and revolutionary tool for the development and progress of the nation.