The Mauritanian government wants to fight against the phenomenon of youth unemployment with the support of partners, in particular the European Union (EU). Thus, within the framework of the Archipelago project, vocational training in the construction industry was launched for the benefit of 300 young people.
To meet the needs and promote innovation and the competitiveness of young people, Senegal Talents Campus offers cultural stakeholders training in the arts and culture. The launch ceremony was held on Thursday, November 4. 26 agents from the first cohort received their certificate. Partners like 3fpt and Unesco promise to support the initiative at a cost of around 800 million francs.
The Ivorian Center for the Development of Vocational Training (Cidfor) organized from 6 to 8 October 2021, an e-learning capacity building workshop, in partnership with the Ivorian General Confederation of Enterprises.
The issue of human resources in the health sector in Senegal was the subject of a debate. During a webinar organized on Monday, September 27 by the National Academy of Sciences and Techniques of Senegal (ANSTS), the director general of the Franco-Senegalese campus (CFS), Prof. Serigne Maguèye Guèye and his co-hosts of the meeting insisted on the need to create a regulatory body for training institutions in order to better meet the needs and priorities of the health sector.
The 10th annual conference of the African Business Lawyers' Club (ABLC) was held virutally on September 29, 2021, with the theme “New Tech: Shaping the Future of Education in Africa”. Papa Amadou Sarr, Minister Delegate General for Women and Youth Entrepreneurship of Senegal and Hugues Hounkpati, lawyer at the Paris Bar, senior associate at Stephenson Harwood AARPI and president of the African Business Lawyers' Club (ABLC) , come back in this interview on the situation of the African educational ecosystem and the role that digital today plays in improving the educational offer directly affected by the pandemic crisis.
The National Council of Professional Branches (CNBP) has initiated a digital platform for integrated public / private sector consultation to better involve all the stakeholders. On September 23, BCP-EMPLOI and the National Council of Professional Branches organized an information and sharing workshop on the project.
Faced with the large number of young people seeking employment in Côte d'Ivoire and Africa, Africompétence organized the second edition of the Symposium on Employability in Africa under the theme: "The future of youth employability in Africa : Challenges and perspectives ”.
Promoting the digital economy is at the heart of Uemoa's strategies, whose ministers of vocational training and employment will meet in Dakar in October to discuss this issue.