Public-private partnerships in lower secondary education in West-Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Senegal

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are one of the keys to development and post-primary educational policies and the implementation of reforms. This is a particularly important aspect as far as drawing up post-primary reforms is concerned. In several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a large proportion of post-primary enrolments occurs at institutions and in the framework of programs belonging to and managed by a vast set of private operators and religious suppliers. In other countries, the communities play a central functional role in the financing of post-primary programs, especially at public educational institutions. The aim of the present paper is to document and analyse various experiments involving PPPs in sub-Saharan African countries, focusing in particular on the first secondary educational cycle and its non formal equivalents