Within the framework of this support, a Mauritanian delegation visited Senegal from 3 to 7 February 2020, to dialogue with the Voca
PEFOP Activities in Senegal
The Implementation of Vocational Training Policy Reform support programme was launched in Senegal in April 2016, with the initial constraints analysis phase. This collaboration between Senegal and the IIEP-Pôle de Dakar is delineated by a framework agreement that was signed by both parties on May 23, 2016.
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).
In Senegal, IIEP-UNESCO Dakar is involved with the Société de Développement et des Fibres Textiles (SODEFITEX), which aims to facilitate the certification at the national level of the vocational training courses it has developed in the southern part of Senegal and which are conducted in local languages.
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.
In order to help improve the effectiveness of reforms in technical and vocational education and training (TVET), IIEP-UNESCO Dakar has launched a regional study on training arrangements for trainers and supervisory staff in four African countries.
Following the participatory exercise of diagnosis of the obstacles to the operationalization of vocational training policies, that mobilized close to a hundred national actors between May and July 2016, Senegal elaborated its Programme Contributing to the Operationalization of Reforms (PROCOR).
Approximately forty Senegalese vocational training players met in Thiès between May 30 and June 3, to participate in a workshop for the in-depth diagnosis of obstacles to the operationalization of renewed vocational training policy.