Abidjan Transport Project - training and work-school projects

As part of the Abidjan Transport Project (ATP) financed by the Millennium Challenge Account, the Egis Group is carrying out an urban design study for the rehabilitation of major roads in the Ivorian capital.

This project includes a "Chantiers école" and a "formation" component, entrusted to the Institut Forhom.

Work-schools:

The aim of the work-schools is to train young people aged between 18 and 35, who are unskilled and left school early, from the urban areas of the capital and its surroundings, in road rehabilitation jobs in the context of several work-schools. The aim is to enable them to acquire technical and professional skills likely to facilitate their employability or socio-economic integration.

The Institut Forhom has a three-pronged mandate in this area:

Raising awareness and coordinating the work camp programme, including :

• Drawing up a methodology, operating rules and best practices for setting up work experience centres within contracting companies,
• Incorporating the "chantiers-école" programme into the tender specifications for recruiting companies,
• Involving technical schools (building and public works section) in the programme.
• Mobilisation of the Ministry of Vocational Training with a view to recognition of the skills certificate issued at the end of the training course.

Preparing tools for monitoring and evaluating the actions

• Action planning, including analysis of manpower requirements by trade for each company/batch in order to allocate groups of learners to them (distribution of learners by trade, according to batches and the nature of the work to be carried out)

Educational engineering to implement the programme, and in particular :

• Development of training and certification guidelines for each job
• The development of guidelines and good practice gathering for company Mentors.

Continuing training :

The aim of the "training" component is to enhance the skills of the members of the project's steering committee, known as the TRafic Technical Coordination Committee (CTCTR), in ten training areas relating to the technical, contractual, operational, environmental and social management of the project. This training will be provided in Abidjan throughout 2020, in partnership with the Institut National Polytechnique Houphouët Boigny (INP-HB) and the École National Supérieur de Statistique et d'Économie Appliquée (ENSEA).

The training topics covered are as follows:

• Simulation of traffic flows in an urban environment, management of diversions and road safety, health and safety during construction,
• Pavement evaluation,
• Pavement design and rehabilitation,
• Legal aspects, financing and administration of infrastructure construction and rehabilitation contracts
• Planning and cost management of roadworks
• Quality management tools, risk analysis, optimisation and value engineering in infrastructure management
• Geographic information systems (GIS) and information technologies (IT) for infrastructure management
• Environmental and social assessment of infrastructure projects
• Urban ecosystems: water distribution and sanitation networks
• Urban and rural resettlement

Management of all the "Work-school" and "Training" components, including the mobilisation of technical experts for the work-school component and trainers for the continuing training component, quality control and validation of deliverables.

On the training side:

• Overview and logicalframe development for training activities,
• Support for the structures involved in selecting participants,
• Pedagogical guidance for trainers in the preparation, delivery and assessment of training courses,
• Provision of a film for each of the ten training courses.

On the worksite schools:

• Overall methodological approach and mobilisation of the various stakeholders
• Sizing of learner groups according to the nature of the work per batch
• Drafting of training and certification guidelines
• Drafting of the specifications to be included in the calls for tender for each of the 4 lots.