The organization promoting the start of ICDP in Senegal is the Normisjon. At the same time, in the Ivory Coast, the Norwegian Lutheran Mission (NLM) together with its local partner, the Mission Evangelique Lutherienne en Cote d’Ivoire (MELCI), has also been making efforts to start ICDP.
The two organizations contacted the ICDP foundation and it was agreed to start the training of future ICDP facilitators from both countries. at a workshop in Senegal.
The first training workshop in the ICDP progrmme took place in March 2023, and it was conducted by ICDP trainer, Aubin Sanou. Aubin has been implementing the programme in Burkina Faso for a few years now and he had previously been trained by Nicoletta Armstrong. Read his brief report. (Original report in French)
Report from workshop with facilitators in Abidjan, September 2023. (Original in French)
Photo of ICDP facilitators
2025: Given the enthusiasm of the participant women to apply the ICDP programme in their lives, the Normisjon decided to expand the outreach by implementing ICDP with more families. It became clear that in order to achieve this there was a need for more facilitators and for that reason it was agreed to engage Aubin Sanou again.
It was decided that the main task would be to evaluate the work of the facilitators and to strengthen their ICDP skills. It was also agreed that Aubin would involve facilitators in the training of a new group of facilitators, so that they can start gaining the experience at trainer level.
Consequently, ICDP trainer Aubin Sanou (on photo above during a field visit), travelled to Senegal in April 2025 and carried out the following activities:
-Monitoring and evaluation of the current ICDP facilitators
-Refresher course for ICDP facilitators
-Training of new ICDP facilitators
-Exchanges on awareness-raising/sensitization process and monitoring tools
These activities took place from 6th to the 27th of April 2025, in the community of Kédougou.
Read Aubin’s report that provides an overview of the training. Read the original report in French.