Resumen

GIRARDO, Cristina  y  DE IBARROLA, María. La formación para el trabajo de los jóvenes desde las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en América Latina y el Caribe. Estud. front [online]. 2004, vol.5, n.10, pp.9-49. ISSN 2395-9134.

The study of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) is undertaken in this article. They are understood as innovative agents for the design and implementation of specific vocational training programs for young people within the changes in the National vocational education and training policies that took place in Latin America an the Caribbean in the last decade, which are briefly described in this text. The importance of local space and decentralization policies, resulting from the reforms of the Latin American Estate, and the innovation in the management of local governments is the context in which NGOs develop and function. NGOs are part of the idea of a new public space created by the interaction between private and estate spheres. Selected Mexican NGOs operating in a local space and training young people, who otherwise have no other training opportunities are described: their general characteristics, their institutional profile, the population they serve, the approaches, strategies and instruments of their intervention.

Palabras llave : Young people; local development; decentralization; vocational training; Non Governmental Organizations.