Unemployed adults

The ChileValora initiative (CV) was formally established in 2008 with the objective of improving job mobility and employability for people with little or no formal education. It was launched to support productivity and help people progress in education and training by establishing a nationwide system for validation and certification of labour skills within a pre-defined framework of standards. Another key objective of the initiative is to promote lifelong learning and further education and training.

CommUniversity, an initiative of the University of Technology (UTech) in Jamaica, is an ‘outreach intervention to create a local community-university network to collaborate learning, exchange of ideas and knowledge for enhancement of life and prosperity, through partnerships with public, private agencies, and individuals’ (Bartley-Bryan, 2013, p. 2). The concept of the CommUniversity is aligned to one of the UTech strategic goals for national impact: assisting local communities in building their capacities for learning, growth and development.