Ivory Coast earmarks 1.719 trillion CFA francs for education
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on AIP
Ivorian MPs approved a 2027 budget of 1.719 trillion CFA francs for National Education, Literacy and Technical Education. The funds are to finance 3,135 primary classrooms and 428 additional classrooms, according to AIP, with 216.9 billion CFA francs allocated to investment.
Members of the Economic and Financial Affairs Committee of Ivory Coast’s National Assembly on Thursday adopted the 2027 budget proposal for the Ministry of National Education, Literacy and Technical Education, set at 1.719 trillion CFA francs. The amount was examined in Abidjan in the presence of Minister of Hydraulics, Sanitation and Hygiene Amédé Koffi Kouakou, representing Minister of National Education Koffi N’Guessan, according to the Ivorian Press Agency (AIP).
The funds include 1.269 trillion CFA francs for personnel expenditure, representing 73% of the allocation, 57 billion for goods and services, 165 billion for transfers and 216.9 billion for investment. About half of the investment is to be financed by donors, with the other half coming from the state budget, according to AIP.
The programme includes the construction of 3,135 primary classrooms, 428 pre-school classrooms and 144 local secondary schools. It also includes the rehabilitation of 150 schools, completion of 13 secondary schools and the Jean-Piaget school of excellence with boarding facilities, as well as continued renovation of the Yamoussoukro scientific high school.
The ministry also plans to distribute 16 million school textbooks and more than 5,500 school kits, as well as acquire 120,000 dual desks. Some 16,000 teachers are to be trained in programmes adapted to CM1 and 200 in sign language and Braille, while 27,000 learners are to receive literacy training and nearly 15,000 literacy kits are to be distributed, according to AIP.
