École nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer


The École nationale de la France d'outre-mer was a French grande école, providing training for future colonial administrators. It was situated in Paris, avenue de l'Observatoire, 2.
Created under the name École coloniale in 1889, it succeeded the École cambodgienne – established in 1885 – and took the ENFOM name in 1934. On 23 June 1956, it was subject to the French Fourth Republic's "Africanization" of colonial administration policy: the number of its African and Malagasy students equaled that of Metropolitan France ones.
In 1959, it became the Institut des hautes études d'Outre-Mer, and offered training to administrators of African countries that were members of the French Community. In 1966, IHEOM was replaced by the Institut international d’administration publique that trained future leaders from Third World countries. It was ultimately merged into the École nationale d'administration in 2002.

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