Preschool & Primary Education

In the absence of comprehensive early childhood education in Côte d’Ivoire, the Accelerated School Readiness (ASR) Program aims to support the government in improving school readiness of children who don’t have access to pre-primary school. The program focuses on getting children ready for school by promoting early learning and socio-emotional development and getting families ready to…

Access to Quality Education to Combat Child Labor The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the Jacobs Foundation, UBS Optimus Foundation and 15 cocoa and chocolate companies are setting up the Child Learning and Education Facility (CLEF), a pooled financing facility to ensure access to quality education as one essential tool for promoting children’s rights and fighting child labor in Côte d’Ivoire. By 2030, CLEF aims to provide quality education for 5 million children and influence the behaviour of 10 million parents. To achieve this goal,…

Initiated by KfW Development Bank and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the UK Development Finance Institution (CDC), and other public and private investors, the Regional Education Finance Fund for Africa (REFFA) is the first regional education finance facility for Africa. It aims to provide customized financial services for…

The Programme d’Enseignemet Ciblé (PEC) was introduced in 2018 to address the learning crisis, whereby many children do not acquire essential foundational skills like reading and arithmetic at the right time, early in primary years. PEC is inspired by the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) model pioneered since the early 2000s by the Indian…

Bridging classes offer out-of-school children aged 9 to 13, including those involved in child labor, a second chance to reintegrate or integrate into formal schooling.

PALEC (Projet d’Amélioration de la Lecture-Ecriture et du Calcul) was introduced in Côte d’Ivoire to bring about a pedagogical change focused on improving learning outcomes in early grades. It enables students of different grades and levels to learn simultaneously in a classroom at their own pace through an extensive variety of teaching and learning materials.

Movva, the world’s first nudgebot start-up, launched the Eduq+ initiative in Brazil and Côte d’Ivoire. Eduq+ is a nudgebot, a technology product aimed at encouraging parents’ engagement in their children’s school life, focused on socio-emotional development.

The Education Impact Fund (EIF) is an investment fund specialized in the financing and support of SMEs and start-ups in the education sector in Côte d’Ivoire. According to a report of the World Bank published in 2017, the education system in Côte d’Ivoire is experiencing major deficiencies. In this context, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), a…

Eneza Education provides universal access to affordable and quality educational content through ubiquitous mobile technology. Eneza products are tailor-made to improve learning outcomes of students, 70% of whom live in rural areas.