Project profile — Haiti Centre for Professional Training (CFPH CANADO)

The goal of the project is to assist Haiti’s Centre for Professional Training (CFPH CANADO) in the modernization of its administrative management and its pedagogical methods, using a competency-based approach. The project aims to reduce a chronic deficiency of skilled workers. It contributes to the Government of Haiti’s efforts to reform the vocational training sector and address the shortage of skilled workers in Haiti. The CANADO centre is expected to become a model centre for other vocational training centres that adopt the competency-based approach.

The expected outcomes for the project include: (1) support the Haitian government to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of administrative services by its decentralised directorates to the population; (2) improve managerial capacities, communication methods and reaching techniques within the Ministry of Education and vocational training institutions; and (3) engage Canadians and the Haitian diaspora in Canada’s international cooperation efforts in Haiti.

Among the results achieved as of March 2016: 1) 55 educators, 8 managers and 7 technicians and monitors have been trained. They are now offering quality education using the skills-based approach; 2) In 2015 2016, 503 students, 43 women (9%) and 460 men (91%) enrolled in first year in the various programs available; 3) Some 50 students obtained workplace internships; 4) A survey showed that 35% of the graduates found a job in their field of studies after six months of graduation; 5) Another survey indicates that 91% of the 22 employers reached found that the graduates they employed were well qualified; 6) CFPH-CANADO signed partnership agreements with 48 organizations, some for scholarships, some for internships, jobs or offers of entrepreneurial training; 7) 16 students, including two girls, received a scholarship through a selection committee made up of representatives of the economic community and former students. Some 67% of the funding for these scholarships came from the private sector.