National youth employment forum on learning organized

Minister of Employment and Vocational Training (MINEFOP), Zechariah Perevet, has organised a forum to develop socio-professional integration model in Yaounde.

The aim of the forum is to make an inventory of learning in Cameroon and propose elements of a legal framework,and financing a business model of learning.

According to the minister, the teaching model is rarely practised and not well structured in Cameroon.

"We need the participation of all stakeholders,". But in other places, especially in the West, this training has been proven.she said

Zechariah Perevet said, many young undereducated have managed to make their way into the professional world. MINEFOP's wish is to import this practice. It is in this context that the national forum for learning 2015 (Fona) organized yesterday by the MINEFOP held in Yaoundé.

"Its main objective is to facilitate the professional integration of many educated young or not," said Zechariah Perevet.

During the opening ceremony, guest presents include business leaders, youth and training center supervisors who may have an idea of how learning develops alternately. In other lands,guest invited were from Switzerland, France and the United States, "where such training has experienced rapid development for over a century,"

According to the ambassadors and representatives of the three countries present at the forum, learning enabled the vast majority of young people aged 16-21 years to gain a foothold in the professional world.

In Switzerland, for example, young people already working in business are formed simultaneously in the training schools for further knowledge in their craft.

"These courses are based on national qualification procedures clearly defined by the public authorities," said the Swiss ambassador in Cameroon.

In France, this model of training concerns everyone. "People of all ages and all levels," said the representative of the ambassador of France in Cameroon.

Concerning Cameroon, it would be interesting, according to these diplomats, to base this model on the realities of the country, while drawing external models. Learning alternately concerns all areas. That is, the electrical, mechanical, computer, cooking, masonry, carpentry and even agriculture and animal husbandry.