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Partnerships Barry-Callebaut, Jacobs Foundation, ICI & WCF Partnership
Partnerships Barry-Callebaut, Jacobs Foundation, ICI & WCF Partnership
Barry-Callebaut, Jacobs Foundation, ICI & WCF Partnership
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The overall objective of the project is to promote improved
opportunities for the youth of the Adzopé region by creating an
integrated model catering to their formal and vocational education
needs. As well as improving the formal education on offer in the area
this project will particularly address the needs of vulnerable
children, such as girls and those who have missed out on education to
provide life-skills and real improved opportunities for economic and
social participation. |
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The objectives or outputs of the project are:- Support effective management for the school/training establishment.
- Develop relevant cost effective courses.
- Significantly reduce hazardous labour practices for children.
Barry Callebaut, with a local cooperative UCADA will construct an eight class college at Akoupé supported by local authorities and ministry of education. This project will expand economic and social opportunities for and contribute to the reduction in the vulnerability of children and youth of the Adzopé region to exploitation by promoting greater awareness and improve economic and social opportunities through an integrated model catering to their formal and vocational education needs.
Based on their existing programme in Cote d’Ivoire and ongoing collaboration with Barry Callebaut, Iand with the support of the Jacobs Foundation, CI will design and support a programme of extension to create greater awareness of child labour and child exploitation. ICI will provide training through its local experts to selected cooperatives and will support a group of local animators who will work at community level in a process of sensitisation and dialogue that has proven able to drive attitudinal change. The aim will to be support communities as they seek to better protect their children, ensure education provision and take advantage of both the college at Akoupé and the quality partners programme through UCADA.
WCF/ECHOES staff will be responsible for carrying out the following thematic components: in-school vocational training for students, out-of-school agricultural vocational education program, scholarship/micro-credit loans system, community awareness-raising activities, teacher and administrator development and functional literacy training.
Based on their existing programme in Cote d’Ivoire and ongoing collaboration with Barry Callebaut, Iand with the support of the Jacobs Foundation, CI will design and support a programme of extension to create greater awareness of child labour and child exploitation. ICI will provide training through its local experts to selected cooperatives and will support a group of local animators who will work at community level in a process of sensitisation and dialogue that has proven able to drive attitudinal change. The aim will to be support communities as they seek to better protect their children, ensure education provision and take advantage of both the college at Akoupé and the quality partners programme through UCADA.
WCF/ECHOES staff will be responsible for carrying out the following thematic components: in-school vocational training for students, out-of-school agricultural vocational education program, scholarship/micro-credit loans system, community awareness-raising activities, teacher and administrator development and functional literacy training.
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