[ Enjeux de pouvoir local et d’intérêt divergent dans l’offre de service public décentralisé au Bénin: Cas des activités d’alphabétisation dans la commune d’Athiémé ]
Volume 35, Issue 1, December 2021, Pages 26–35
Gbaguidi Arnauld Gabriel1
1 Maitre de conférences des Universités du CAMES, Département des Sciences et Techniques des activités Socio-Educatives, 01 BP 169 INJESPS, UAC Porto-Novo, Benin
Original language: French
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The actions of the State of Benin and the contributions of Technical and Financial Partners (PTF) registered in recent years at the national level to support and accompany Literacy and Adult Education (AEA) have not enough to give new impetus to this sub-sector. This is how the commune of Athiémé still has very little involvement in the sub-sector with the lowest literacy rate (38, 80%) according to INSAE (2013). In this work, we have chosen to analyze how the issues of local power and interest diverge from local authorities in the public service offer in the era of decentralization in Benin through the lack of political will of local elected officials, the influence of political leaders in the provision of public services and the play of plural powers of local elected officials generated by decentralization explain the non-involvement of the municipality of Athiémé in the AEA sub-sector. To better understand our problem, we used the qualitative approach, which made it possible to carry out individual interviews with 91 people spread over all the categories of actors concerned to explain the phenomenon to Athiémé. At the end of this research, the analysis allows us to identify the major causes of Athiémé's non-involvement in the AEA sub-sector which are, among others, the context of the strong politicization of the municipal council through interest. diverge from local political actors, fear of the loss of local power of Athiémé's political actors.
Author Keywords: literacy, adult education, non-involvement, politicization, governance.
Volume 35, Issue 1, December 2021, Pages 26–35
Gbaguidi Arnauld Gabriel1
1 Maitre de conférences des Universités du CAMES, Département des Sciences et Techniques des activités Socio-Educatives, 01 BP 169 INJESPS, UAC Porto-Novo, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The actions of the State of Benin and the contributions of Technical and Financial Partners (PTF) registered in recent years at the national level to support and accompany Literacy and Adult Education (AEA) have not enough to give new impetus to this sub-sector. This is how the commune of Athiémé still has very little involvement in the sub-sector with the lowest literacy rate (38, 80%) according to INSAE (2013). In this work, we have chosen to analyze how the issues of local power and interest diverge from local authorities in the public service offer in the era of decentralization in Benin through the lack of political will of local elected officials, the influence of political leaders in the provision of public services and the play of plural powers of local elected officials generated by decentralization explain the non-involvement of the municipality of Athiémé in the AEA sub-sector. To better understand our problem, we used the qualitative approach, which made it possible to carry out individual interviews with 91 people spread over all the categories of actors concerned to explain the phenomenon to Athiémé. At the end of this research, the analysis allows us to identify the major causes of Athiémé's non-involvement in the AEA sub-sector which are, among others, the context of the strong politicization of the municipal council through interest. diverge from local political actors, fear of the loss of local power of Athiémé's political actors.
Author Keywords: literacy, adult education, non-involvement, politicization, governance.
Abstract: (french)
Les contributions des différentes catégories d’acteurs au cours de ces dernières années au plan national pour soutenir et accompagner l’Alphabétisation et de l’Education des Adultes (AEA) n’ont pas suffi à donner un nouvel élan à ce sous-secteur. C’est le cas dans la commune d’Athiémé qui connait encore une très faible implication dans le sous-secteur avec le taux d’alphabétisation le plus faible. Dans ce travail, il a été question d’analyser en quoi les enjeux de pouvoir local et d’intérêt divergent des autorités locales ont un impact sur l’offre de service public à l’ère de la décentralisation au Bénin à travers le manque de volonté politique des élus locaux, l’influence des dirigeants politiques dans l’offre des services public et le jeu de pouvoirs pluriels des élus locaux engendrés par la décentralisation expliquent la non-implication de la commune d’Athiémé dans le sous-secteur de l’AEA. Pour mieux appréhender notre problématique, nous avons utilisé l’approche qualitative, ce qui a permis de réaliser des entretiens individuels avec 91 personnes réparties sur l’ensemble des catégories d’acteurs concernés pour expliquer le phénomène à Athiémé. Au terme de cette recherche, l’analyse a permis de décliner les causes majeures de la non-implication d’Athiémé dans le sous-secteur de l’AEA qui sont entre autres, le contexte de forte politisation du conseil communal par l’intérêt divergent des acteurs politiques locaux, la peur de la perte du pouvoir local des acteurs politiques d’Athiémé.
Author Keywords: alphabétisation, éducation des adultes, non-implication, politisation, gouvernance.
How to Cite this Article
Gbaguidi Arnauld Gabriel, “Issues of local power and of divergent interest in the provision of decentralized public service in Benin: The case of literacy activities in the commune of Athiémé,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 26–35, December 2021.
