+empleo

it is the Employability Hub of the ALIARSE Foundation. We work on the promotion, facilitation and strengthening of training and job intermediation processes, in order to enhance the opportunities that people have to enter a job. We develop these processes by promoting collaborative work with key actors in society and influencing the development of public policies.

We work with vulnerable populations with the goal of contributing to the consolidation of protective factors, improving the quality of life, and strengthening of coordinated actions that encourage their social mobility. Specifically, we focus on mothers and women heads of households, youth, Afro-descendants, Indigenous people, and migrants. Likewise, we focus on territoriality, which is why our Programs reach people from many different parts of the country.

We are a non-profit organization that, since 2007, has driven people’s comprehensive wellbeing through multisectoral alliances for sustainable development.
In ALIARSE, we aspire to an increasingly more democratic and collaborative society that generates bigger opportunities for people in a sustainable, equitable, and inclusive environment. We share with our partner organizations the conviction that multisectoral alliances are a powerful and essential tool.

Our story

  •  
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2018
  • 2016

  • - 2024

    – Start of Advanced English Program with the National Learning Institute (INA)

    – Extension Program: University Horizons in Costa Rica in conjunction with the US Embassy in Limón and Talamanca

    – Technical training program for employment aimed at migrants and other groups in vulnerable conditions with the support of PADF in Cahuita and Pérez Zeledón.

    – Technical Training and Support for Job Search and Labor Insertion with the support of IOM in the Greater Metropolitan Area

    – EMPLEATE Training Center | Employability Program with the support of MTSS, MEP, Intel to improve professional profiles for job placement.

  • - 2023

    • +empleo groups, with support from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security:
      • 1300 active adult and high school students, in various regions of the country.
      • 200 of these students live in Guanacaste, 85 of which attend face-to-face lessons.
    • Empowering Skills groups, with support from INTEL and the Embassy of the United States in Costa Rica.
      • Over 50 students from 8th and 9th grade from Limón graduated.
    • +empleo groups, with support from the International Organization for Migration.
      • 64 migrants living in Costa Rica graduated.

  • - 2022

    • Skills 4 Life: 1270 adult beneficiaries and students from high schools in the Great Metropolitan Area, Guanacaste, Limón, and the Central Pacific region.
    • Empowering Skills: 60 eighth graders from high schools in Limón, thanks to the support of INTEL and the Embassy of the United States in Costa Rica.

  • - 2021

    • Skills 4 Life: we impacted 1100 adults and high school students. 75% from the Great Metropolitan Area and 25% from regions in Guanacaste, Limón, and the Central Pacific.
    • Talent Up: 400 adult beneficiaries from the Great Metropolitan Area.

  • - 2020-2019

    Coordination with the Ministry of Public Education from within the Skills 4 Life Alliance, as the work with students from public high schools was started. We worked with 1000 people, from which 75% lived out of the Great Metropolitan Area.

  • - 2018

    MTSS, CINDE, and ALIARSE create the Public-Private Alliance for Development Skills 4 Life. We impacted 1000 adults, 100% of them from outside of the Great Metropolitan Area.

  • - 2016

    We began as a Training Center from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. We worked with 200 adults from Guanacaste.

Our team

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Our impact

This 2023, the support has allowed the active participation of 1,500 students, present in a total of 52 cantons throughout the country, mostly in territories where high unemployment rates are concentrated.

+empleo Projects 

Technical Training and Support for Job Search and Labor Insertion

INA Training Center | Advanced English Program

Technical training program for employment aimed at migrants and other groups in vulnerable conditions

14–15-year-old teenagers from public high schools in vulnerable areas.

17–18-year-old teenagers from public high schools and unemployed adults.

Students between 15 and 17 years old from public high schools in Limón and Talamanca.