The PAFNA project in Senegal: An efficient and promising literacy project

Submitted on Sunday, 19 January 2014Last updated on Sunday, 11 June 2017

The project to support vocational training for the newly literate, initiated in August 2004 in Senegal with the Paul Gérin-Lajoie Foundation as the implementing agency, is testing an apprenticeship-based approach to training, with shorter-term apprenticeships of 14 months in six low-technology vocational tracks. This project is based on a contractual, ""faire-faire"" approach with self-employed. Implementation entails facing a large number of challenges

General informations
Corporate authors: 
Paul Gérin-Lajoie Foundation
Series: 
More and Better Education:Wht makes effective learning in schools, in literacy and ECD programs?
Year: 
2006
Serial number: 
Session A2
Price: 
0$
Document format: 
Conference paper
Document type: 
Biennial/triennial studies
ADEA Activities: 
ADEA Biennale, 2006
Category: 
ADEA
Themes: 
Effective Literacy Programs
Subject (Meeting): 
Effective and Promising Programs
Keywords: 
Literacy
Effectiveness
Release date: 
2013-07-15
Available versions
Language(s): 
English
French