Fulfilling each child's full potential
We invest in the future of children by promoting good parenting and quality education.
What We Do
We conduct experiments and help to scale up science-based solutions, with the goal of ensuring that all children have a good start in life and acquire the knowledge and skills they need to reach their full potential.
Early Childhood Development
Promoting good parenting practices
Pre-school and Primary Education
Getting children ready for school and supporting learning
Youth Training
Promoting the development of technical and life skills
Our Results
We achieve results through constant monitoring and rigorous evaluation of our projects.
Our Partners
We foster partnerships in an ecosystem that brings together the Ivorian government, companies in the cocoa and chocolate industry, philanthropic foundations, research partners and civil society organizations. Together, we are addressing the challenges of early childhood development and seeking to improve the quality of education.
Our News
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“There are many people like me, who aspire every day to give a new impulse to our education system”
Adja Mariam Mahre Soro is an entrepreneur in the education field. She runs two companies: Studio KÄ, an animation studio and Voyelles a publishing house, both of which produce educational content highlighting Africa’s cultural heritage for the youth. In a few words, she shares with us her experience as an entrepreneur in the educational sector as well as advice for those who would like to take the leap.
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The extended closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the education sector, in Côte d’Ivoire and worldwide. TRECC has partnered with Eneza Education to offer free access to the iEDUK platform for all children in Côte d’Ivoire over a period of one month.
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Guilherme Lichand is the founder of Movva, the world’s first nudgebot startup, that launched the Eduq+ initiative in Brazil and Côte d’Ivoire, explains how parents’ involvement can lead to children’s increased motivation and better performance at school.
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Cecilia Vaca Jones, Executive Director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, tell us how parents’ nurturing and support in the early years of their children is a decisive factor for their optimal development.
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Bernard van Leer is a Dutch foundation that believes that all babies and toddlers deserve a good start in life.
Research
We strongly believe that solutions must be based on scientific evidence. Accordingly, we support high-level research, studies and rigorous evaluations.
Latest Research
The Ministry of National Education, Technical Teaching and Vocational Training (MENETFP) will launch the Real Time Scaling Lab, a process of documentation, research, and adaptation of ongoing pilot initiatives to influence scale-ups.
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Learn more about early childhood development and quality education
Author: Innovations for Poverty Action Year: 2020
Through TRECC Grant Matching Mechanism round 2 (GMM2), 13 pilots-to-scale projects have been co-funded with 12 cocoa companies and implemented by 14 implementing organizations in the sectors of Early Childhood Development, Primary Education and Vocational Training.
The role of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is to provide technical support to the companies and implementing agencies to design and implement sound monitoring systems to closely monitor and learn from these pilots. IPA also conducts its own independent and complementary data collection to evaluate the pilot projects.
This report contains IPA’s analysis and recommendations on the potential scale-up of the Company Partner pilot.
This report contains IPA’s analysis and recommendations on the potential scale-up of the Company Partner pilot in the framework of TRECC Grant Matching Mechanism round 2.
Read More →Author: Jenny Perlman Robinson, Molly Curtiss and Patrick Hannahan – CUE at Brookings Year: 2020 The brief provides a…
Read More →Author: Acumen Year: 2019 Cocoa Interrupted details how social enterprises can play a role in creatively and sustainably addressing the varied…
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