GOOD PRACTICE: Formation professionnelle, recyclage et redynamisation des Organisations Professionnelles d’Artisans (OPA). AVSI, Cote d'Ivoire.

Good Practice: Formation professionnelle, recyclage et redynamisation des Organisations Professionnelles d’Artisans (OPA)

Brief summary

In a context of rapid changes in terms of new technologies for economically strengthening artisans, our project organised an upgrading training sessions for artisans. This was done through in strong partnership with the OPA because they are the first level of artisan federations for the crafts trades.

Key Areas of the Good Practice

• Vocational training and consolidation of craft activities (3.6)

• Strengthening the association and structuring capacity of craft associations (1.9)

• The exploitation of the resources and trainers of craftspeople by other craftspeople (3.2)

• Craft innovations appear as a result of the new skills acquired through training (3.6)

• Networking between private, public and associative actors, creates a new dynamic (1.10)

• Consideration and introduction of the specific needs of artisans in the curricula of vocational training centres of the State becomes a requirement, because in general the existing modules exclude them, because of their low levels of training. (3.6)

• Complementary training (management, literacy, management, marketing, etc.) become essential conditions for the creation of small craft enterprises (3.2)

• Equipment, because access to resources and factors of production adapted to new market requirements are factors that perpetuate artisanal activities (3.6)