Alphabétisation fonctionnelle et autonomisation de la femme dans la commune d’arrondissement de Yaoundé IV

Abstract

Despite the implementation by the Cameroonian government of a national literacy policy, under-enrolment continues to affect a large proportion of the population, in this case women. The need to provide literacy skills to the out-of-school population or those who have left school early remains a priority in both rural and urban areas. To this end, there has been a shift from traditional or classical literacy to so-called functional literacy. Functional Literacy Centres are therefore created throughout the national territory where learners with diverse profiles and needs acquired skills aimed at their socio-professional integration in a context of decentralization that places populations and decentralized local authorities at the forefront of the development of their locality. Our research aims to question the determinants that condition the external effectiveness of functional literacy in the context of decentralization. The results of our investigations, in particular the field raids, allowed us to unseal the elements that explain the low external efficiency of CAFs, which are broken down into: the mismatch between training programs and the needs of learners, the weak financial support of promoters, the weak capacity building of trainers but especially the insufficient operationally of the post-literacy monitoring mechanism for women after CAFs. This situation considerably limits their empowerment despite having received professional training. In order to achieve the external effectiveness of CAFs on the one hand, and to make literacy a second chance training for women who have never had the chance to set foot in school or for those who leave very early, we have also proposed suggestions translated into a project aimed at the empowerment of women in the Yaoundé 4 council in connection with functional literacy.