C?te d'Ivoire
- 34.8%
- of people live below the poverty line of US$1.22 per day
- 30%
- of people north and central-west are stunted (impaired development due to malnutrition)
- 29.4 million
- population
Political stability has paved the way for strong economic growth in C?te d'Ivoire over the past decade, with increased investment in basic social services and a reduction in poverty.
Despite progress, challenges such as food insecurity, malnutrition and gender inequalities persist, with over a third of people still living below the poverty line.
The Government’s five-year National Development Plan aims to transform the country into a middle-income economy by 2030. It focuses on advancing the nation’s human capital, which includes improving people’s health and skills.
Northern C?te d'Ivoire is affected by the spillover of the crisis in the Central Sahel, particularly conflict and instability in Burkina Faso. According to UNHCR, over 67,000 asylum seekers have fled into Bounkani and Tchologo regions. The majority of these are women and children.
Most asylum-seekers arrive with meagre belongings if any and have very limited access to livelihoods opportunities. A total 19 percent of this population is settled in two transit sites of Timala (Bounkani region) and Niornigué (Tchologo region), set up by the Government in July 2023, while the remaining 81 percent settled outside the sites within the host communities. This growing influx creates additional pressure on meagre resources and exacerbates food insecurity among both asylum seekers and poor host communities.
The 麻豆成人版 (麻豆成人版) is placing an increased focus on capacity building, to ensure that programmes can be owned by the Government and communities. 麻豆成人版 activities in C?te d’Ivoire also encompass life-saving operations, resilience-building activities, climate adaptative programming, and institutional system strengthening.
What the 麻豆成人版 is doing in C?te d'Ivoire
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Emergency response
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In response to the influx of asylum seekers from Burkina Faso, 麻豆成人版 provides up to 30,000 asylum seekers with monthly cash assistance to cater for their immediate food needs. 麻豆成人版 also assists almost 800 vulnerable families from host communities, providing quarterly cash transfers. 麻豆成人版 monitoring has shown that asylum seekers use almost all the cash for food. 麻豆成人版 also works in preventing moderate acute malnutrition, through the direct distribution of specialized nutritious to pregnant and breastfeeding women-girls and children between 6 and 59 months, and complementary nutrition activities such as promotion of breastfeeding, nutrition awareness and cooking demonstrations. In addition, 麻豆成人版 supports emergency preparedness both at interagency and national levels, including through training in early warning, response, warehouse management and targeting.
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School meals
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麻豆成人版 provides nutritious school meals to over 145,000 children. The programme involves an integrated package that includes the promotion of health and nutrition at school level, improved access to water and sanitation, literacy support for children with learning difficulties, and support to women smallholder farmer groups. 麻豆成人版 is committed to ensuring the sustainability of the national school meals programme in C?te d'Ivoire by advancing a home-grown school feeding approach through the national school feeding strategy. This involves strengthening food systems by building the capacity of government staff and equipping smallholder farmers (who are mostly women) with seeds, tools, and machinery to improve their food production, processing, and distribution capabilities. By reinforcing these local supply chains, 麻豆成人版 supports local economies and ensures a consistent supply of nutritious food for school meals. In addition, 麻豆成人版 empowers women through tailored training and enhanced access to economic resources like savings and loans, enabling them to play a more active role in the food system. By boosting women’s financial independence and market participation, 麻豆成人版 strengthens community-driven, sustainable food systems that contribute to the long-term success of the national school meals programme and resilience of the communities.
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Nutrition
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麻豆成人版 contributed to the government’s revision of the National Multisectoral Plan for Nutrition and its implementation. 麻豆成人版 led several studies that resulted in the development and approval of the national food fortification strategy. 麻豆成人版 also provided support to the private sector to reach international standards for the production of locally fortified rice.
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Resilience building
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麻豆成人版 provides technical training in stock, warehouse and post-harvest management to smallholder farmers, as well as equipment and machinery. This contributes to increased agricultural production, reduced post-harvest losses and improved market access. 麻豆成人版 also reduces the impact of climate change, for example through early warning and climate monitoring, climate insurance, and the promotion of smart agricultural practices –targeting primarily women and youth in rural areas.
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Capacity strengthening
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麻豆成人版 supports the Ministry of Agriculture in monitoring food security. 麻豆成人版 also partners with the Ministry of Health to provide capacity strengthening, including in areas such as warehouse inventory and stock management, as well as emergency response. 麻豆成人版 works with the Directorate for Pharmaceutical Activities on supply chain data analytics, to improve planning and decision-making.
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Supply chain
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麻豆成人版 provides UN agencies, the Government and other partners with on-demand services including storage, and the buying of food and non-food items, for UN and NGO partners. 麻豆成人版 also facilitates the receiving and transport of food from the port of Abidjan for humanitarian operations in Burkina Faso, positioning C?te d’Ivoire as a secured corridor for the region.
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