Rights to Inclusive Education and Retention of Girls in School in Côte d'Ivoire

Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2022) include: (1) provided capacity building of 295 044 girls adolescents and women to claim their right to education and participate in decision-making processes that affect them; (2) provided capacity building of more than 150 000 state non-state and community actors (including nearly 80 000 women) and 447 state and non-state structures. The aim is to reduce the social cultural physical and economic obstacles to educating girls adolescents and women; (3) strengthened the knowledge of about 1.5 million people on the rights of children with disabilities and their needs in Health Education and Healthy Living. This reinforcement also concerns sexually transmitted infections (STIs) HIV/AIDS early pregnancy addictive behaviours risky behaviours and entrepreneurship; (4) provided sensitization through messages to more than one million people on among other things compulsory schooling schooling for girls adolescents and women the fight against child marriage and gender-based violence; (5) strengthened 39 training and women's education institutes for the training education and entrepreneurship of girls and women who are out of school and not in school; and (6) trained 446 leaders of women's and youth organizations in advocacy on compulsory schooling and on the enrolment of girls adolescents and women.