Ghana
21 July 2020
A six-year project to develop industrial skills among Ghana’s workforce has improved the engineering and manufacturing skills of young people, promoted economic competitiveness and contributed to an improvement in the quality of life of beneficiaries and a reduction in poverty, according to an African Development Bank report issued on 15 July 2020.
Africa
15 July 2020
As we celebrate World Youth Skills Day, it is worth taking stock of the priority skills of young Africans in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and how this sector could be rethought and adapted to ensure better resilience to future crises.
Côte d'Ivoire
11 June 2020
The Ivorian Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CIDFOR), an institution under the supervision of the Secretariat of State for Technical Education and Vocational Training, signed a partnership agreement with ENGIE, a company specializing in energy services in Africa, with a view to upgrading vocational education trainers in Côte d'Ivoire.
Gabon
13 April 2020
The current crisis linked to the pandemic of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) is no longer simply a health issue, it has come to show the world the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of our social, economic and cultural systems, but more specifically, of our training systems and especially our technical and vocational training systems.
Africa
04 March 2020
The African Development Bank and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) have called for stronger links between technical and vocational education and training and industry to equip young people with the skills they need to boost technological advancement, trade and growth in Africa.
Africa
18 December 2019
he Inter-Country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN-TVSD) of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) organized from 9th to 10th December 2019 in Abidjan a continental workshop to promote and assess the achievements of the education-training-work continuum in Africa.
Mali
27 November 2019
Several programs target rural people to set them on the path to entrepreneurship in livestock or food processing.
West Africa
07 November 2019
UNESCO's Multisectoral Regional Office for West Africa-Sahel and the ECOWAS Secretariat are jointly organizing a workshop on national qualifications frameworks in the countries of the region from 7 to 8 November 2019.
The PEFOP in action
10 March 2020
10 February 2020
Events
05 Oct
Koudougou (Burkina Faso)