How to reform apprenticeship in Benin? Integrating modern and traditional systems
Traditional apprenticeship has been an important source of employment for most school dropouts and youth with no prior education in Benin. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the government introduced reforms that prohibited traditional practices, such as a popular graduation ceremony, and formalised the apprenticeship system as part of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The recommendations put forward in this policy brief support further evolution of Benin’s strategy to allow the graduation ceremony to remain an option for celebrating the training completion, to the discretion of each graduate.
