Man walking through coca beans

Unlock the Potential of Youth in Cocoa-growing Communities​

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

The Unlock the Potential of Youth in Cocoa-growing Communities project seeks to address key employment and education challenges young people face in rural cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire.

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Youth Technical Service Units

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

Targeting young people in cocoa communities of Côte d’Ivoire, the Youth Technical Service Units project has been set up to provide training and professional integration to of out-of-school youth. Members receive trainings on entrepreneurship and management as well as agricultural techniques, especially those related to cocoa.

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Promoting Family and Teacher’s Engagement Through Nudges

Promoting Family and Teacher’s Engagement Through Nudges

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

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.

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Supporting the “Missing Middle” with Capital and Technical Assistance

Supporting the “Missing Middle” with Capital and Technical Assistance

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

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…

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Providing Access to Quality Learning Resources for Rural Communities

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

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.

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Care for Child Development and Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions

Care for Child Development and Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

Combined with the Essential Nutrition/Essential Hygiene Actions (ENA/EHA) modules, Care for Child Development (C4CD) is an innovative and integrated approach aiming to improve childhood development and nutritional outcomes during the first 1,000 days, a crucial period of life that starts at the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy and lasts until a child’s second birthday.

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Families Make the Difference

Families Make the Difference

By Priscillia Assamoi | February 14, 2020

Introduced in Côte d’Ivoire within the context of TRECC in 2017, Families Make the Difference (FMD) is a program targeting caregivers with content that have been proven to work in other similar contexts via randomized controlled trials. FMD aims at improving parenting skills and behaviors for a positive impact on the physical, intellectual, and emotional…

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Multisectorial Nutrition and Child Development Project – PMNDPE

By Priscillia Assamoi | January 29, 2020

The Multisectoral Nutrition and Child Development Project (PMNDPE) is a government-led program, largely financed by the World Bank, deployed in 14 administrative regions of Côte d’Ivoire aiming to increase the coverage of early childhood nutrition and development interventions in order to optimize the physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development of young children starting in the first…

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