📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
The Multisectoral Project to Support Skills Development for Resilience will be financed through a $13.2 million contribution from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group’s concessional window, and $26 million from the Transition Support Facility, a mechanism designed to assist countries facing significant challenges.
The initiative is timely as Burkina Faso continues to grapple with socioeconomic challenges stemming from a decade-long security crisis. The project is expected to create at least 20,000 jobs and indirectly benefit 175,000 individuals. Its primary goal is to offer young people an alternative to violence and prevent radicalisation by creating opportunities for skill development and employment.
Key project components include occupational training for 61,830 people affected by the security crisis, support for 800 youth entrepreneurs, equipping and capacity building for 35 vocational training centres, financing for 1,200 youth-led projects and 2,000 women-led enterprises, and constructing 1,000 poultry farms and 1,000 small ruminant pens. There will be models on human rights and peacebuilding, civic education, and the promotion and adoption of climate-resilient technologies, including nature-based solutions.
The project will also improve access to basic social services and support distance-learning at Koudougou University (Centre-Ouest region), which currently has the largest number of internally displaced students. At least 1,000 of these students will receive computers to aid them in learning.
