Translation is not delivery. What actually works when programmes span anglophone and francophone teams.
Multinational programmes across Africa routinely budget for translated slides and call it bilingual delivery. Participants experience something different: a programme designed in English, taught in English-inflected French, with case studies from markets they do not operate in. Completion rates hold; behaviour change does not.
Genuinely bilingual delivery means faculty who think in the language they teach, case material drawn from francophone markets — OHADA corporate frameworks, BCEAO/BEAC regulatory context, CIMA insurance rules — and assessment in the participant’s working language.
The organisations that get this right treat francophone delivery as a first-class programme stream with its own faculty bench, not a translation line-item. The outcome gap between the two approaches shows up in every post-programme assessment we run.