Basic Education: Japan Constructs Over 1,500 Classrooms

The school construction and equipment programme lasted 18 years and cost FCFA 57.6 billion. The Japanese government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, constructed 1,533 classrooms and 152 latrine blocks worth FCFA 57.6 billion in 122 Government Primary Schools in all 10 regions of the country between 1997 and 2014. A breakdown of the …