•    The Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) was developed in collaboration with African Union/ Human Resources Science and Technology (AU/HRST).

•    Agricultural Education & Training (AET) National forum was held in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Malawi, Swaziland, and Togo with all stakeholders to agree on a national 10 year strategic and investments plan. The process of integration of AET activities into the CAADP/NAIPs have started since the regional sensitization workshops. 

In 2016, the following objectives will be pursued: 
•    Implementation of the ‘Africa Smart Rural School’ will be implemented in 5 countries (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal) in collaboration with IsDB funding and DPs. Sunergies action of Universities, TVET and School for rural development.
•    In the 6 ATVET pilot countries: special training measures targeting women and women groups as well as youths within the current selected VCs; market-oriented pilot training courses for young 'agripreneurs' ;
•    Facilitate the upscaling of ATVET to 12 countries and the inclusion of the women empowerment initiative in the current ATVET module;        
•    Capacity building in ATVET for integrating more sustainability standard in training materials and training measures towards promoting more sustainable agriculture in the pilot countries.