PURSeP: Training for 15 Central African trainers

Building on experience from various reform actions conducted since September 2014, a project to train occasional internal trainers has been launched by Expertise France, which is responsible for the technical assistance component of PURSeP I & II, financed by the World Bank. At the end of this training project, the officers trained will in turn be able to train other civil servants.

Training to learn to train

Fifteen civil servants, from over five ministerial departments, took part in the training, which was held in the offices of DGDI, from 27 September to 10 October 2017. The training was given by Ahcène Gheroufella, an internal expert responsible for economic and financial governance projects at Expertise France, and Ismail Radji, an international expert.

The two trainers addressed the main issues concerning the design, coordination and supervision of a training action. Using a number of exercises and role plays based on real cases, the civil servants benefitting from the training learnt how to:

 • Manage training tools and methods (training engineering);

 • Coordinate training actions;

 • Implement andragogy (adult education) methods and tools tailored to the various publics;

 • Evaluate achievements and provide post-training support to learners (answer questions, provide assistance, individual or collective advice).

A second seminar, which is scheduled for late October, will be devoted to the organisation of workshops aiming to put into practice the knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills acquired during the training.

A driver for sustainably strengthening good governance

This innovative approach, which involves occasionally using internal trainers, provides the Central African administration with a major instrument to effectively promote the development of the capacities of its civil servants and officers. In addition, the internal trainers play a key role in an administration which has not yet set out all its working rules and methods in written procedures. Furthermore, for the internal trainer, doing this job is a source of personal and professional enrichment. 

The use of internal trainers will subsequently need to be structured and formalised in the context of an interministerial training network to allow educational, human and material resources to be pooled (trainers, schedules, teaching materials, etc.).

The success of the system will also come from State support in terms of means and institutional measures. In the context of budget constraints, the use of internal trainers provides a sustainable and economical system which also promotes good governance.