Objectives & Highlights - April 2023 West Africa Regional Conference

Aim and Objectives

This West African Regional TVET Conference is aiming for the enhancement of the sector with the following specific objectives:

1. To share knowledge on the sector wide reforms needed to improve TVET outcomes as relates to economic development through agro-industry;
2. To share innovative practices and concepts that enhance TVET delivery
3. To share experiences on building and sharing TVET knowledge and practices through facilitating regional exchanges on TVET ;
4. To strengthen a national/regional and international cooperation and network of TVET sector involving training institutions, industry/private sector, development partners and governments in the Western Africa Region ;

Highlights of the Conference

To ensure a very successful out come of the conference, an organizing committee is constituted, comprised of members of the Association’s Secretariat and some key partners. The conference is organized to include:

1. The main conference featuring keynote addresses, panel discussions and presentations on the conference theme and other cross-cutting issues ;
2. A workshop presentation of research papers ;
3. A benchmark session in the TVET institutions in the country

Who is expected to attend ?

The Conference shall bring together distinguished TVET policy makers, institutional administrators and managers, Financing institutions, Lecturers, Trainers, Researchers, partners and employers/industry from the West Africa regional states that comprise: Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and the host country Senegal.

External sponsors

External partners and sponsors will be solicited such as: UNIDO, SAED, AUF, 3FPT, DER, Agricultural production chains, ASEPEX, CNES, CNP, UPIC, GIZ, USAID, FNDASP, DFPT-MFPAI, ITA, ISRA

Ministerial support : MESRI, MFPAI, MDIPMI, MAERSA