El Salvador project 519-0315 · 1987–1993 · Foundation of Entrepreneurs for Educational Development

Grant to the Foundation of Entrepreneurs for Educational Development (FEPADE), a Salvadoran PVO, to establish vocational-technical (VT) training programs for priority occupational categories, especially those related to nontraditional exports (NTE's) and the construction industry. FEPADE will also initiate a management training program. To strengthen FEPADE's institutional capacity, the project will provide TA, equipment, and funding to enable FEPADE to hire and train needed personnel and to develop: project management procedures, a financial plan and fundraising strategy, a computerized data bank on training resources, and the capacity to design, guide, and subcontract training surveys and major diagnostic and feasibility studies and analyses. To promote priority VT training, FEPADE will: (1) organize professional advisory committees to help identify training needs, specify training competencies, and review training curricula; (2) sponsor and provide TA for competency-based training programs at existing facilities, using mobile training units and contracting foreign instructors where needed; (3) help promising training institutions establish formal, high-quality programs in prio

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAW-551 (1987). The source's own text.