The Inter-Country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN/TVSD) in Africa, coordinated by the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry for TVET, aims to pool African countries’ experiences with a view to improving the vocational skills of young people and helping them into employment. The Abidjan Ministerial Conference in July 2014 agreed on the ICQN’s work programme until 2017. In accordance with this work programme, the ICQN debated the “Training of Trainers and Entrepreneurs” topic in 2015 (Kigali Ministerial Conference) and the “Education/Training Continuum” topic in 2016 (the Abidjan Experts Seminar). The results of this work are provided in two compendiums of country experiences available in French and English on the NORRAG website. 1 The 2017 Compendium complements the one published in 2016. It pursues the work on the education/training continuum, developing the subject with an analysis of national schemes aimed at combatting the exclusion of the very high number of young people outside education and training systems and helping them to successfully find jobs.
