Center for Qualification and Training

The Head Office of the Chamber has strongly invested on programs of training and qualification for the Chamber civil servants.

The Center for Qualification and Training (CEFOR) is responsible for the admissions, recruiting, training, updating, capaciting and specializing the Chamber of Representative employees.

In 2004, 487 (four hundred and eighty seven) training and qualification events were implemented, comprehending the five domains, as defined by CEFOR (Behavioral, Managerial, Institutional, Technical-Specific and Technical-General), including courses, trainings, conferences, seminars, adaptation, integration and assessment programs, and meetings, with more than 10.766 participants. Besides, 858 (eight hundred and fifty eight) workers obtained a leave for participation in conferences, seminars and post-graduate courses. 

Among the activities promoted by CEFOR, some deserve to be highlighted:

♦ Implementation of courses of Lato-Sensu Specialization, in a partnership with the University of Brasilia: Managerial Development (four classes, counting more than one hundred students) and Legislative Managing (two classes). Another partnership with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais allows 35 servants to specialize on People Management.

♦ Undergraduate Internship Coordination. At present, the Chamber has   204 (two hundred and four) interns from 7 (seven) educational institutions in a joint program to implement professional internships with college students. The purposes of the program are to broaden the connections to the academic environment and to prepare the youngsters to the labor market.  Besides, the short-duration program of undergraduate internship was introduced last year, under the supervision of the 2nd Secretary and participation of the Head Office, the Communication Secretary Office  and the CEFOR. The interns watch seminars and visit the Chamber units (Committees, Ombudsman’s Office, Information and Documentation Center, Floor Galleries, Social Communication Secretary, Parliamentarian, Legislative Consulting Services) and other bodies (Federal Senate, Supreme Court, Court of Accounts and the Foreign Relations Department). The purpose of the program, as set forth by the Board Acts numbers 22 and 143, 2003, is to broaden the knowledge of students all over the country on the Legislative branch, its work, history, organization and structure. Hence, the idea is to contribute to the dissemination and consolidation of a more positive image of the Chamber before the society.

♦ Implementation of the distance learning solution In 2003, a distance learning solution was acquired so the Chamber could make available to the internal and external public (parliament members, state and city legislative civil servants) courses concerning the institutional functions of the Chamber in addition to the computer science courses.  CEFOR developed Courses on Legislative Process, Constitutional Law and Writing Workshops with this purpose.

Post-graduation Courses

The Chamber Post-Graduation Program aims to highly qualify servants on his area or work. The program allows the exchange of knowledge with academic institutions, cultural institutions, companies and the general society in order to promote better interaction with the community always keeping the Chamber institutional project. There are courses on Public Budget, Legislative Process and the Institutions and Political Processes in the Legislative Branch.

CEFOR also deals with admissions to the Chamber, concerning public competitive examinations for hiring tenured civil. This includes planning, writing of the public call notice, hiring of expert institution to the implementation of tests, following and oversight of the implementation of contracts.