Getting People Into Work: AFPA's Partnership with Daylindo

In summary

AFPA, France's leading provider of vocational training leading to qualifications for over 75 years, trained or supported close to 155,000 people in 2022.

For people who are far from employment, workplace-based training allows for faster integration than traditional schemes, which are often seen as too theoretical.

AFPA relies on Daylindo as its technology partner to roll out AFEST at scale, with a platform suited to its market requirements and pathways shared across units.

The partnership is built for the long term, with structured 2-level user support and joint monthly monitoring.

Client

For over 75 years, AFPA has been France's leading provider of vocational training leading to qualifications. Its mission is to train people towards employment. Created in 1949 to meet the needs of a France in the midst of reconstruction, the National Association for Adult Vocational Training became the National Agency for Adult Vocational Training on 1 January 2017.

Objective

With 155,000 people trained or supported in 2022, AFPA (National Agency for Adult Vocational Training) is a major operator in professional training and support in France.

Choosing workplace-based training is particularly well suited to people who are far from employment, allowing for immediate, effective integration while avoiding traditional training schemes that can feel too theoretical and hard to access.

To use the AFEST approach at scale, AFPA needed a technology partner to rely on.

Daylindo Solution

The collaboration was structured around several components: developing and integrating platform features and deliverables that meet the requirements of AFPA's markets; structuring platform use so that pathways built by AFPA's instructional designers could be shared across different units; setting up a central team to deliver first-level user support to internal teams, with second-level support handled by Daylindo; and a monthly rhythm of partnership monitoring and management, including factoring AFPA's needs into the platform's functional roadmap.

Results

The partnership is built for the long term. Detailed quantitative results remain available directly from AFPA.

This kind of collaboration illustrates a pattern found among other training organisations and CFAs (apprenticeship training centres) that Daylindo works with: rolling out AFEST at scale requires a technology partner capable of adapting to the specific market requirements of a public operator, not just a generic tool.

FAQ

What is AFPA and what is its mission?

AFPA (National Agency for Adult Vocational Training) is France's leading provider of vocational training leading to qualifications, created in 1949 to train people towards employment, particularly those furthest from the labour market.

Why is workplace-based training well suited to people far from employment?

Because it allows for immediate, effective integration, avoiding traditional training schemes that are often seen as too theoretical or hard to access for these audiences.

What role does Daylindo play in rolling out AFEST at AFPA?

Daylindo acts as a technology partner: developing features suited to AFPA's markets, structuring the platform to share pathways across units, and providing second-level user support.

How is the partnership between AFPA and Daylindo managed over the long term?Through a monthly rhythm of partnership monitoring and management, which factors AFPA's needs into the platform's functional roadmap, alongside a central user support team.

How many people has AFPA trained or supported recently?

In 2022, AFPA trained or supported close to 155,000 people. More recent figures also exist and can be requested directly from AFPA.