help accelerate the education of young people aged 9 to 16 by reducing training time and considerably increasing success rates;
build bridges between the formal and non-formal education systems to enable young people who are not in school or who drop out early to catch up on their schooling;
establish a close link between the act of learning and the act of producing, through theoretical and practical training in promising trades;
promote national languages and culture ;
provide opportunities for early school leavers and/or young people not attending school to pursue general secondary education or vocational training;
contribute to increasing the school enrolment rate in Burkina Faso ;
contribute to the fight against poverty by integrating young people into the socio-economic fabric…
Prerequisites for implementing the approach
Approach implemented by community demand for the implementation of the approach ;
Setting up a management committee ;
Involvement of the beneficiary community in setting up simple infrastructure to house the center.
Implementation process
Prospecting and social negotiation missions for center openings;
Literacy and Non-Formal Education Fund (FONAENF).
Setting up a management committee (COGES) ;
Recruitment and training of animators ;
Setting up the infrastructure to house the center;
Furniture, teaching aids and textbooks;
Follow-up support and advice.
Stakeholders in the implementation
the community through the SMCs and the facilitators who oversee the implementation of specific activities in the AFI-D centers;
Operators: supervisors are appointed by operators to monitor AFI-D centers;
Pedagogical supervisors: in the basic education districts (CEB) to which the AFI-D center belongs, pedagogical supervisors provide pedagogical support for AFI-D centers;
The provincial directorate of national education and literacy and the basic education districts (CEB), through their departments responsible for non-formal education, for follow-up;
Solidar Suisse: as a promoter of the AFI-D educational alternative, Solidar Suisse carries out monitoring-support-counseling and training missions in AFI-D centers located in the Central Plateau region, its area of concentration;
FONAENF: The Literacy and Non-Formal Education Fund is responsible for financing and promoting literacy and non-formal education in Burkina Faso. It carries out field missions at national level to monitor the implementation of the various innovations it promotes.
Direct beneficiaries
Children and teenagers aged 9 to 15 who are not in school or have dropped out early.
Indirect beneficiaries
Parents of learners ;
The educational community of learners ;
The national education system ;
Actors in local development and the promotion of young teenagers for vocational training.
Benefits
The use of the national language alongside French ;
The link between the act of learning and the act of producing ;
