Supporting Senegal's skills for jobs and competitiveness program

ongoing

The Skills for Jobs and Competitiveness Program focuses on three main objectives: Improve the quality of training provision by upgrading technical high schools, networking training centers in three economic sectors and setting up short-term training courses. Overhaul the vocational training financing system and create a single fund to transfer resources to centers, highs schools, companies and individuals. This fund will optimize resources.Improve the management system. This program, by building the capacities of the ministry’s services for all its mandates, will support the monitoring-evaluation of training activities, with a strong focus on issues related to equal access for girls and women.This program will contribute to the recognition of the principles tested with AFD’s support, such as the autonomy of institutions and public-private partnerships. By focusing on the gender issue, it will also help build the skills of girls and women and their representation in the governance bodies of institutions.