Project profile — Support to the International Organization of La Francophonie 2010-11

• Central African Republic (9.71%)
• Benin (6.75%)
• Burkina Faso (1.26%)
• Haiti (6.75%)
• Chad (9.71%)
• Congo, Democratic Republic (10.96%)
• Burundi (16.46%)
• Rwanda (9.71%)
• Gabon (9.71%)
• Niger (1.26%)
• Madagascar (6.75%)
• Congo (9.71%)
• Mali (1.26%)

• Education, Level Unspecified: Education policy and administrative management (11110) (32.00%)
• Other Social Infrastructure And Services: Culture and recreation (16061) (68.00%)

• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (principal objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)

This grant provides support for two projects of the International Organization of La Francophonie: (1) Centres for Reading and Cultural Expression (CLAC); and (2) the Francophone Initiative for Distance Teacher Training (IFADEM). CLACs are places where local people can learn, read, watch movies, participate in vocational training workshops and communicate in a secure environment. The support from CIDA enables the beneficiaries of the CLACs to access a greater number of books and modern computer and digital equipment. IFADEM is a teacher training project that combines distance education and training in the presence of tutors. This initiative aims to improve the quality of basic education in target countries and contribute to international efforts to help states and governments ensure access for all children to a full cycle of primary education, without gender disparity. CIDA's support enables the OIF to ensure the deployment of this initiative in the countries concerned.

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Results achieved as of the end of the project in 2012 include: (1) the OIF finalized the implementation of 86 new Centres for Reading and Cultural Expression (CLACs) in nine countries; (2) 152,000 new books were bound, processed and made available to existing centres; (3) 48 centres benefited from the introduction of digital technology equipment; and (4) the OIF trained 1,184 teachers and 50 people working in the education sector in Burundi and Benin and strengthened its project team to monitor and deploy the Francophone Initiative for Distance Teacher Training (IFADEM) in other countries of La Francophonie.

• Proactive disclosure