Lessons from Country Diagnosis: The Financing of Vocational Training is not Sustainable
Diagnoses of obstacles were carried out in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Senegal between December 2015 and July 2016, through the prism of PEFOP’s five strategic axes. The combined analysis of the results obtained in these three countries highlights several similarities for each axis.
For national vocational training arrangements to be effective and responsive to all needs, it is necessary to ensure that their financing is diversified, perennial and sufficient.
The diagnoses carried out in the three countries however shows that the situation is far from satisfactory, first and foremost because of the persisting perception that governments must play a central role in financing vocational training.
Indeed, mechanisms to mobilize contributions from private players, local authorities and civil society are still very scarcely developed in the three partner countries. Likewise, specific mechanisms and approaches to mobilize contributions from informal sector players are inexistent.
Vocational training financing is also characterized by weak financial resource mobilization and project and programme management capacities, the insufficient involvement of economic players in the steering of training organizations thus limiting their contributions and finally, the poor development of businesses contributions “in kind,” such as by covering some aspects of vocational training internally.