In English Les autorités nationales ont annoncé au cours des derniers mois toute une série de partenariats qui promettent d’étendre l’offre de programmes de formation professionnelle au Gabon et de renforcer l’enseignement supérieur tandis que la négociation collective menée par le syndicat des enseignants s’éternise. Le renforcement du système éducatif est de toute première…
As it is getting closer to realising its goal of universal health care, Gabon is focusing on decentralising national health services in an effort to make governance more effective at the local level. The country is now investing in infrastructure, although a number of challenges, such as a shortage of trained staff and the prevalence of both communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), persist. Covering…
One of the three key pillars of the Emerging Gabon strategy is Services Gabon, which addresses the development of a skilled labour force and aims to establish the country as a regional centre for financial services, tertiary education, health and environmentally sustainable development. To this end, efforts are now under way to increase the number of schools and training institutions, train and recruit…
Interview:SimonNtoutoume Emane How is the Gabonese government dealing with the country’s high unemployment rate, especially the youth unemployment figures? SIMON NTOUTOUME EMANE: Nowadays the government’s major strategy for lowering the unemployment rate consists of educating the youth according to the market’s needs and, thus, ensure their inclusion in the workforce once they complete…
Health Covering the 2011-15 period, the National Health Strategy was launched in 2010 and aims to accelerate sector reforms by improving the overall governance of health care, reducing infant and maternal mortality, introducing free maternal health care and investing in infrastructure, especially hospitals. The country has been rolling out its universal health care system, the National Insurance…
Under the National Health Strategy adopted in 2010, Gabon has made a push to upgrade service quality and expand hospital capacity. In recent years, the country’s health strategy has centred on heavy investment in infrastructure. The Ministry of Health aims to enforce a set of quality standards by 2020, but with 86% of the population living in urban areas, rural structures face challenges including…
In EnglishDe nouveaux investissements dans la formation professionnelle, prévus dans le cadre d'une vaste politique de diversification économique du gouvernement gabonais, devraient contribuer à combler le fossé entre l'offre des établissements scolaires et les besoins du marché du travail.Deux initiatives ont été annoncées à l'occasion du second New York Forum Africa annuel, organisé mi-juin…
Gabon has rebounded strongly from the economic crisis of 2008-09. As the economy still depends largely on natural resrource extraction, low prices and weak global demand for commodities in 2009 shrank GDP by 1.4%, according to statistics provided by the DGEPF. Growth, however, returned in 2010 and has remained robust since. The economy grew by 6.7% in 2011 and is forecast to grow at 5.6% in 2012,
In EnglishFace à une demande croissante de main d’œuvre qualifiée dans l’ensemble de l’économie gabonaise, le gouvernement et des entreprises du secteur privé ont intensifié leurs investissements dans l’éducation technique et la formation professionnelle.A l’origine de cette demande croissante de main d’œuvre qualifiée, on peut citer une forte croissance économique, une hausse…