Read report from ICDP trainer Aubin Sanou.
BACKGROUND
Save the Children International (SCI) is an independent organization that is a leader in the promotion and protection of children’s rights around the world. Our mission is to inspire real change in the way the world treats children and achieve immediate and lasting change in children’s lives; And our vision is a world where every child realizes the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our values are: ACCOUNTABILITY – AMBITION – COLLABORATION – CREATIVITY – INTEGRITY.
Since 1992, it has been carrying out actions through various projects in Côte d’Ivoire to improve the level of protection of children as well as the living conditions of communities.
In this dynamic, SCI has been implementing a project related to the theme of “child-sensitive social protection” since January 2022, in the departments of Bondoukou and Tanda in partnership with the local NGO Soleil Levant/Education.
Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the main objective of the project is to strengthen the social protection system in Côte d’Ivoire and contribute to an improved and inclusive well-being of children in the departments of Bondoukou and Tanda.
In concrete terms, in the long term, the main impact of the interventions should be an improvement in the well-being of children through the strengthening of the child-sensitive aspect of other social protection programmes in the Gontougo region.
For a greater impact at the national level, an advocacy plan has been developed and validated with the Ministries of Women, Family, and Children, the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, media and NGO partners as well as the regional directorates representing the two ministries mentioned above based in Gontougo.
The advocacy axis approved by all stakeholders is the follow-up ” Bring decision-makers to integrate the ICDP approach into the training modules of social workers in Côte d’Ivoire by the end of 2025″.