Louma Technologies trains ACFPE’s employment and training advisers in digital skills

From March 25 to 27, 2026, Louma Technologies trained around twenty employment and training advisers from the Central African Agency for Vocational Training and Employment (ACFPE) in digital tools. The training was run in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and funded by the I-Compete project.

Choosing these advisers “is no accident, because they are the ones who run the training that leads to certificates for job seekers,” said Michèle Renée Bimbo, ACFPE’s acting director general, as she opened the session. Now trained in digital skills, they can in turn support young people who want to start a business.

Three days, around ten topics

Participants followed around ten modules: digital literacy with Orphée Zaza, cultural entrepreneur and filmmaker; digital payments and the use of Orange Money; content creation with Naomi Bayoka; and the steps to start a tech company in the Central African Republic with Aristide Cédric Bengué, managing director of Ikouē SARL.

In the module on Louma Technologies, its director general, Pétula Lenguezial, explained what sparked the company: the arrival of infrastructure such as fibre optics and of Orange Money. In her words, Louma was not created to catch up with others, but to support the country’s digital development and open up markets people could not reach before.

To put it into practice, each adviser received a new smartphone: they learned to set it up and to create social media content with photo and video editing apps.

Advisers ready to pass it on

“Many young people want to start a business but stay unknown, in the shadows. Digital tools will now make them visible on the market, nationally and internationally,” said Olivia Ngadao Kondji, employment and training adviser. For her colleague Guy Blaise Angbézoua, “this training is truly essential and a lever for our country’s development.”

“I am satisfied because the knowledge we shared was well understood,” said Pétula Lenguezial, who also heard participants say the training was too short: “We will pass this on to management to plan further sessions.”

The session ended with the presentation of certificates. Aubin Fulbert Monga, ACFPE’s training director, received the participants’ recommendations and praised Louma Technologies for the initiative. These advisers are the programme’s first cohort: they will in turn support Louma Technologies at training sessions in the provinces, and the app is set to become the reference platform for the Mbaïki agro-pastoral centre.