Equality of Opportunity in Education and Training - Development Plan - Ivory Coast

Government Development Plans

The successive Development Plans show a growing concern for the promotion of women. The Law Plan for 1967-1970 did not mention any specific women's problems. The Development Plan for 1971-1975 underlined differences between the percentages of male and female children in full-time education. It also recommended an important development programme of technical teaching for women. The 1976-1980 Plan merely stipulated that a cultural minimum should be granted to everybody, men and women. The Development Plan 1981-1985 was the first one to contain a specific chapter on the promotion of women. Its objectives were the following:

1. to ensure equality of access to education;
2. to develop solutions in order to allow women who have not received schooling to access knowledge and know-how; and
3. to develop the education and training of girls and women according to the employment needs necessary for the economic development of the country.

Training policies

According to the periodic report of the government on ILO Convention No. 111 (for the period ending on 30 June 1988), training policies have tried to achieve the following gender-related aims:

1. the promotion of effective coeducation by providing information for girls, parents and trainers on the various possible training paths;
2. the sensitization of persons responsible for training and orientation;
3. the support of activities traditionally exercised by women in order to make them more profitable and to ensure their modernization to the benefit of women.