Professional training is a major challenge to take up in southern countries, because the existing public trainings are inadequate and sometimes inappropriate to meet both the needs of craftsmen and businessmen, and the issue of qualification for a great part of young people who leave the educational system without any diploma, without any profession and without any job prospects.

Still, it is neither relevant nor legitimate for NGOs to assume the functions that should be those of the authorities. This is why Frères des Hommes and its partners have chosen a two-step strategy. First, with the help of our partners, craftsmen define and draw up vocational trainings that meet their needs and bring as well as possible their knowledge to the forefront. By embarking on this project, professional associations acquire new competences – in management most of all – and develop new collaborations between them, which reinforces them. What’s more, by trying out attractive, adapted and cheap trainings, craftsmen show the feasibility of such trainings – on the financial aspect in particular – as well as their consequences on the economical activity. This is how, secondly, the negotiation with the authorities of the responsibility for vocational training on the basis of very concrete propositions (contents of the curriculum, organisation terms, financing...) becomes possible.