📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Working group - Mondi
Country: Ivory Coast Funding amount: €500,000.00 Project start: 01.01.2024 End: December 31, 2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The goal of the Strategic Alliance is to strengthen practice-oriented vocational training in Côte d'Ivoire in order to address the shortage of skilled workers and open up new career opportunities for young people. The Austrian company Mondi Industrial Bags GmbH is implementing the project together with the French NGO IECD (Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement), which carries out educational projects worldwide. The project is being implemented in close cooperation with local educational institutions, interest groups, and public institutions. The Austrian development organization ICEP is providing technical support.
Expected results
Expected results are:
- 225 young people between 15 and 30 years of age will benefit and graduate as industrial maintenance technicians after three years (50 in 2024 and 2025, 25 in 2026 and 150 new apprenticeships created by the project);
- 70 companies or local subsidiaries of international companies participate in the apprenticeship program;
- Opening of a second public vocational school in Yopougon;
- 20 (2f/18m) teachers at the 2 vocational schools;
- 50 company trainers (5f/45m).
Target group / Beneficiaries
The main target group is 225 young people between 15 and 30 years of age from Côte d'Ivoire who will benefit from the part-time training and graduate as industrial maintenance technicians after three years.
Activities
The project will support measures for the institutional development of vocational education and training within the following three main components:
- Component 1: Building multi-stakeholder cooperation in vocational training between the public sector and industry: Creation of a public-private partnership network for vocational training with the Ministry of Technical Education, Vocational Training and Apprenticeships (METFPA), the Confederation Generale des Entreprises de Côte d'Ivoire (CGECI) and leading companies to consolidate and improve training methods and processes in Côte d'Ivoire;
- Component 2: Improving the match between skills demand and supply: extending the dual industrial training to a second school to increase the impact of the project;
- Component 3: Incorporating corporate social responsibility and gender equality: gender mainstreaming in vocational education and training and raising awareness of corporate responsibility and the need for active participation of companies in demand-led vocational training.
Context
The project builds on the findings of the "Dual Industrial Training" pilot phase in Morocco and Côte d'Ivoire (project number 2550-20/2019). It has shown that while the dual training model is well accepted and embraced, more efforts are needed to firmly anchor it in the Ivorian education system. This requires, on the one hand, better cooperation betw
