Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142) - Niger (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes the Government's first report, which gives an account of the teaching and vocational guidance activities being carried out within the school system in particular. It also supplies texts concerning the grant of scholarships by the National Committee on Guidance and the Allocation of Scholarships (CNOAB). The Government draws attention to the crisis facing the country's school system, and also to the objectives set to deal with it. It indicates that financial resources are limited whereas needs are enormous.

The Committee recalls in this connection that the Convention covers all vocational guidance and training activities, whether they take place within the system of formal education or outside it (Article 2 of the Convention); and that it provides for the gradual extension of systems of vocational guidance and continuing employment information "with a view to ensuring that comprehensive information and the broadest possible guidance are available to all children, young persons and adults" (Article 3) and the gradual extension of vocational training systems "to meet the needs for vocational training throughout life of both young persons and adults" (Article 4). The Committee therefore asks the Government to provide comprehensive information in its second report on the effect given to each provision of the Convention and in answer to each question of the report form. Noting that Niger has never benefited from any technical cooperation project initiated by the ILO in this area, it suggests that it might contact the relevant ILO multidisciplinary team in this connection.