(Boursier.com) — GIZ – through its Invest for Jobs Program – and Orange Côte d’Ivoire have signed an agreement as part of the “Fibre School” project. This association aims to train and create professional opportunities for a thousand young people in fiber-related trades.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has bundled a series of offers under the Invest for Jobs brand to support German, European and African companies in their engagement in Africa. The Special Initiative “Training and Employment” offers advice, contacts and financial support through its implementing partners in order to remove barriers to investment and create sustainable jobs in Africa.
For its part, Orange Côte d’Ivoire, in its capacity as the leading employer in the telecoms sector, has been involved for many years in promoting the employability of young people through initiatives such as Orange Digital Academy and Orange Summer Challenge. The main objective of this partnership with the GIZ is to promote training over 2 years and the professional integration of at least 1,000 young people in fiber-related professions. This will specifically involve generating a pool of expertise in the market, which could attract new investors. This virtuous circle will allow the creation of more jobs, the maturation of the fiber market in Côte d’Ivoire and the development of qualified local skills for ICT companies and sectors in Côte d’Ivoire.
According to Marc Levesque, Director of the GIZ Invest for Jobs Program: “GIZ’s Invest for Jobs Program is committed to supporting Orange Côte d’Ivoire in each of the stages of the implementation of the Fiber School project, but more particularly, at the level of the development of the school (by the supply of technical and computer equipment and teaching materials), then by the subsidy of the training programs of the beneficiaries in order to offer job opportunities to the young people who will be trained there. In addition, Invest for Jobs will provide, if necessary, support to Orange Côte d’Ivoire both for the recruitment of trainers and for the design of training modules adapted to the needs of the market and beneficiaries”.
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