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UNESCO AI Training for Gabon's Pedagogical Inspectors — Libreville

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UNESCO and Gabon's Ministry of Education ran a 48-hour workshop training ~100 pedagogical inspectors in AI frameworks, prompt design and AI-integrated lesson planning (May 2025), with a follow-up course — while only 10% of Gabonese schools have AI governance rules.

~100 inspectors
Pedagogical inspectors trained (May 2025)
48 hours
Workshop duration (May 2025)
10 %
Schools/universities with an AI regulatory framework
UNESCO AI Training for Gabon's Pedagogical Inspectors — Libreville

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
UNESCO Libreville Office & Gabon Ministry of National Education, Civic Instruction and Professional Training
Period
May 2025
Keywords
teacher training, AI literacy, pedagogical inspection, open educational resources

Context

In May 2025, UNESCO's Libreville office and Gabon's Ministry of National Education, Civic Instruction and Professional Training ran a 48-hour intensive workshop training the country's pedagogical inspection corps on artificial intelligence in education, covering UNESCO's AI competency frameworks, its 'AI and Education: Guide for Policy Makers', prompt design, AI-integrated lesson/activity planning and locating open educational resources.

Activities

Around 100 inspectors attended, led by UNESCO's Séraphine Memine Me Zue and opened by Inspector General Joachim Ondjila Ognele, with a two-month online follow-up course planned to extend the training.

Conclusions

The initiative reflects an early, government-endorsed step rather than a mature programme: Gabon still lacks formal AI-in-schools guidelines, and a separate UNESCO assessment found only 10% of the country's schools and universities had adopted any AI regulatory framework; no data on follow-up-course completion or downstream classroom impact was found.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
UNESCO Libreville Office (led by Séraphine Memine Me Zue), Gabon Ministry of National Education, Civic Instruction and Professional Training (Inspector General Joachim Ondjila Ognele)

Conditions for success

  • Direct alignment with UNESCO's AI competency frameworks and policy-maker guidance
  • Targeting the national pedagogical inspection corps as multipliers who oversee and evaluate teachers
  • Planned two-month online follow-up course to extend the initial 48-hour training

Common failure modes

  • Gabon still lacks formal AI-in-schools guidelines
  • A separate UNESCO assessment found only 10% of Gabonese schools/universities had any AI regulatory framework
  • No data found on follow-up-course completion or downstream classroom impact

Where it fits

Governance type
UN agency + national ministry partnership
Scale
national (single cohort of ~100 inspectors)
Income level
lower-middle-income

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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