PEFOP Activities in Burkina Faso

The Implementation of Vocational Training Policy Reform Support Programme was launched in Burkina Faso in March 2016, with the initial constraints analysis phase. The Director General for Vocational Training (DGFP) is PEFOP’s focal point in the country.

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13 May 2022

Face-to-face meeting of the second course in Steering and Management of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (PGEFTP)

41 managers of vocational training systems in African countries from 9 different countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, DRC, Guinea, Senegal, Union of Comoros, Togo and Tunisia) met in Dakar from May 9 to 13 for the face-to-face training session in Steering and Management of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (PGEFTP) organized by the Africa Office of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO Dakar).

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08 July 2021

Rethinking vocational training from a territorial perspective: three innovative examples from Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Senegal

The adequacy between training needs and the offers proposed by the traditional structures of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is not always met. This is why more and more training offers are emerging from private companies or civil society, from a local perspective. Discover three examples of innovative training offers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Senegal.

Equity and Access

08 July 2021

In Burkina Faso, helping disadvantaged youth find employment

In Burkina Faso, IIEP-UNESCO Dakar is supporting the Christian Organization for Relief and Development (CREDO) in the implementation of a specialized vocational support for disadvantaged youth. This project is being implemented in the region of Bobo-Dioulasso, the economic capital of Burkina Faso, and its objective is to enable disadvantaged young people to benefit from education and appropriate training in order to facilitate their integration into the job market and to become autonomous and responsible.

Burkinabè stakeholders carrying out their diagnosis

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24 May 2016

A Timely Diagnosis of Obstacles to the Implementation of the Vocational Education Policy

Burkinabè vocational education stakeholders, including actors from public, private and several economic sectors, endorsed a table of obstacles to the implementation of the renewed vocational education policy on May 11, 2016 in Ouagadougou, following up on a workshop opened by M. Brice Yogo, the Secretary General of the Ministry.