Project profile — Francophonie scholarships 2014-2019

• Central African Republic (2.70%)
• Burundi (2.70%)
• Togolese Republic (2.70%)
• Mali (2.70%)
• Burkina Faso (2.80%)
• Cambodia (2.70%)
• Haiti (2.70%)
• Egypt (2.70%)
• Rwanda (2.70%)
• Senegal (2.70%)
• Benin (2.70%)
• Vietnam (2.70%)
• Cabo Verde (2.70%)
• Cameroon (2.70%)
• Tunisia (2.70%)
• Mauritius (2.70%)
• Congo (2.70%)
• Seychelles (2.70%)
• Comoros (2.70%)
• Sao Tome And Principe (2.70%)
• Mauritania (2.70%)
• Côte d'Ivoire (2.70%)
• Guinea-Bissau (2.70%)
• Lebanon (2.70%)
• Guinea (2.70%)
• Chad (2.70%)
• Niger (2.70%)
• Morocco (2.70%)
• Gabon (2.70%)
• Saint Lucia (2.70%)
• Madagascar (2.70%)
• Congo, Democratic Republic (2.70%)
• Equatorial Guinea (2.70%)
• Laos (2.70%)
• Vanuatu (2.70%)
• Dominica (2.70%)
• Djibouti (2.70%)

• Post-Secondary Education: Higher education (11420) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

The Canadian Francophonie Scholarship Program (CFSP) focuses on training individuals in order to build the institutional and human capacities needed for sustainable development in the 37 developing countries that are members of La Francophonie. The CFSP’s overall objectives are as follows: (i) training trainers, particularly in the field of technical and vocational training; (ii) building the teaching and research capacities of college and university staff; and (iii) training specialists and managers in the public and private sectors to increase and build their capacities.

The program focuses on building the institutional capacities needed for sustainable development in the 37 recipient countries. It also helps strengthen institutional partnerships between Francophonie member countries, as well as the globalization and the international promotion of Canadian education and training. Lastly, the CFSP helps to build the capacities of institutions in Francophone minority communities (Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario) by integrating the scholars into French-language training programs in these regions.

Results achieved as of December 2020 include: (1) the management of 756 scholarship holders (including 327 women) in Canada and the execution of six selection campaigns with the processing of nearly 1,300 application files; (2) the execution of 50 acclimatization, mid-term and end-of-stay sessions for 2,000 scholarship holders; (3) the training of 40 scholarship holders in Montreal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Quebec in the Sentinels scholarship program; (4) the execution of four annual longitudinal surveys that reached over 3,000 program stakeholders; (5) the organization of regional meetings with eleven international missions which made it possible to meet the focal points of 34 beneficiary countries (local coordination committee, Canadian diplomatic representations, candidate institutions); (6) the establishment of a gender equality strategy which made it possible to increase the number of scholarship beneficiaries of the program from 35% to 47.9%; (7) the graduation of 574 graduates (including 235 women); (8) increasing the success rate of scholarship holders from 87% to more than 95% by setting up tools to help support measures and success; (9) the creation of seven tailor-made programs that meet the strategic needs of recipient countries; and (10) the improvement of the internet / intranet sites which recorded nearly 4 million visits for around 780,000 users, as well as the production of media tools including 59 awareness and promotion videos, 20 webinars for scholarship holders, and six videos on the journey of a dozen former scholarship holders.

• Summary report: Formative Evaluation of the Canadian Francophonie Scholarship Program Phase VI
• Proactive disclosure