It
is in this perspective that BREDA took actively part in EFA, whose
World Summit marking the tenth anniversary of the Jomtien International
Meeting on Education, which was held in Dakar in December 1999.
In the pursuit of the mission and considering the high dropout
at schools mainly between the junior secondary and the senior
secondary, BREDA has decided, as its contribution to the eradication
of poverty, with the perspective of the UNDAF and the synergy
with the agencies of the UN system, to offer young students (girls
and boys) in the 8th and 9th grades of secondary school training
curricula likely to develop a business spirit and to give them
the professional predispositions, which will allow them to built
up their own business either individually or jointly through a
poverty reduction programme called: "Reduce poverty through
educational methods of entrepreneurship in secondary schools".
The
objective of this programme is to reduce poverty through the development
of entrepreneurship in the school environment by encouraging the
young pupils (girls and boys) in secondary schools to be involved
in socio-economic activities in their local surroundings, their
lands, by helping them to be endowed with business spirit and
to develop their entrepreneurial and managerial capacities.
The
general objective of the current project is to contribute to the
establishment of a praiseworthy business perspective likely to
favour a viable development because it is environmentally lasting
and sustainable.
The first phase of the project consists in the experiment of
a test programme which involves four Senegalese regions: Kolda,
Tambacounda, Saint-Louis and Louga.
The success of the phase will lead to the extension of the project
to other regions and four other countries in West Africa.
The
UNESCO/BREDA office, in accordance with the document on strategy
for poverty reduction, assigned itself the mission to contribute
to sustainable and united human development and to the social
progress of the populations of Senegal by strengthening and developing
their capacities to take in charge their own expansion through: