Support Program Decentralized Tender

Adult literacy is an important tool for development and economic empowerment especially for women who are the first to be affected by illiteracy. This program is based on the achievements of the Swiss Support for Literacy and Adult Education ASAEA program and aims to test institutional anchoring models in order to support the municipalities so that they can in the long term play their role of project management in literacy as defined by law.Country regionTopicPeriodBudgetBenignEducationVocational trainingEmployment economic developmentEducation policyVocational trainingEmployment creation01.10.2021 - 30.06.2027CHF 13130000 The project in briefBackgroundSince 1981 the SDC has made a commitment to contribute to the reduction of the illiteracy rate of the populations of Benin through support for literacy and adult education ASAEA. Thus the SDC has contributed to the promotion of national languages the constant search for educational innovations so as not to impose any external model but to anchor the interventions well in what founds the identity of groups and individuals taking into account the economic concerns of learners systematic strengthening of the skills of individuals and institutions seeking equity between groups social cultural or gender. On the basis of the lessons learned the SDC in Benin proposes to give itself the time to assess what can be improved and test different scenarios of anchoring at the local level in particular to examine the role that inter-municipal associations but also organizations can play. socio-professional. How to better support the municipalities and decentralized services to ultimately improve municipal project management as provided for by the decentralization texts. This strategic reorientation of the program which consists in seeing how the SDC can emerge from its role of contracting authority to position itself as an accompanist of a process carried out by national actors explains the decision to present at this stage an introduction.ObjectivesThe issue on which the program will focus and what differentiates it from the ASAEA program will be anchoring by the actors concerned State decentralized services municipalities OSP etc. and decentralized management. The opening credit will make it possible to find an optimal implementation mechanism for a few new cohorts. It will be a question here of testing 3 models of assembly with the municipalities with the OSP with the intercommunality and of testing approaches of support of the local communities and of implementation for the control of work in literacy. Finally it will allow studies to be carried out to better understand the issue of gender womens participation and the issue of specific training.Directorate federal office responsibleSDCProject partnersContract partnerForeign state institutionSub-National State SouthEastBudgetCurrent phaseSwiss budgetCHF 1