Profile of Pre-Primary Provision in Abidjan and Bouaké
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 Profile of pre-primary provision in Abidjan and Bouaké A review and policy implications for establishing a pilot Foreword With reference to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable of 15.6 percent by 2025 through the Education / Training Development, one of the objectives pursued by the Sectoral Plan. In this perspective, strategic measures have international community is to promote, on the one hand, been adopted to: early childhood access to development and care activities and, on the other, to provide all young children with a • Develop preschool provision for five-year-old children quality preschool education that prepares them for basic in primary schools; learning in primary school. In Côte d’Ivoire, early childhood • Reinforce pre-primary provision by community partners education provides a low rate of access to support structures for children in rural areas aged four to five; for young children aged 3 to 5. It is 9.4 percent in 2019, • Support private pre-school provision; and according to the school statistics of the Department of • Reinforce the overall quality of provision in Strategies, Planning and Statistics of the Ministry of National preschool education. Education, Technical Education and Vocational Training. Côte d’Ivoire thus ranks in the last quarter of African While progress has been made, the Ivorian government countries in terms of pre-school. The underlying causes recognises that there are still major challenges to overcome in of this situation are both supply and demand. terms of access, quality and equity in pre-school education. Also, the desired partnership with Education Partnerships Furthermore, kindergarten is mainly concentrated in urban Group is an opportunity to profile other solutions to address areas, so provision remains poor in rural areas with a rate the pre-school deficit in the Ivory Coast.
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