MINEFOP, French Firm Evaluate Joint Programme in Vocational Training

Stakeholders of the 2011-2014 Cooperation Programme jointly carried out by the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training (MINEFOP) and a French firm, Gip International, in view of better orientating job seekers in the job market have described as satisfactory what has been done thus far within the framework of the programme.

They made the observation during the programme's first steering committee session that held in the premises of the Yaounde Intensive Vocational Training Centre for Office Personnel last Friday June 14.

Speaking on behalf of MINEFOP boss, the Inspector General of Services in the ministry, Iyafou Jacques, said the session did not only offer stakeholders the opportunity to evaluate the path already covered but also served as a forum to draw up an action plan for the coming year in line with government's development vision vis-à-vis the ministry. The programme was officially launched in Paris, France on March 29, 2012 but effectively took off in Cameroon end of January 2013. The evaluation was therefore for the five months of its functioning.

Presenting its balance sheet, the programme's coordinator, Dr. Tabi Akono François, said thus far the programme has held two capacity building workshops for job guidance councillors in the respective institutions in charge of job seekers and offers. An operational training-employment databank in the country has also been drawn up and sensitisation campaigns ongoing against illegal migration as well as on ways through which legal professional migration could be carried out. Among other envisaged activities is the organisation of an international workshop on the drawing up of Africa's operational job-employment databank as well as working sessions with companies of the industrial sector so as to have its databank.