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Add to Preferred SourcesOfficials from the U.S. government and Côte d’Ivoire celebrated the launching of a new gender unit within the Ivoirian Ministry of National Education that will focus on improving education and training for girls and women to strengthen the workforce and meet the needs of the Ivoirian private sector.
“This is an important milestone in the MCC-Côte d’Ivoire partnership, and will increase economic opportunities for women and girls,” said Karen Sessions, Vice President for the Department of Congressional and Public Affairs at MCC. “Empowering women and girls is fundamental to achieving MCC’s mission of reducing poverty through economic growth.”
The gender unit is a requirement for funding of the Skills for Employability and Productivity Project under the five-year $524.7 million MCC Côte d’Ivoire Compact. The country is also creating a new Gender in Education Policy to promote gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. The compact was jointly developed by MCC and the Government of Côte d’Ivoire based on an analysis of the factors most significantly constraining economic growth in the country, including low availability of skilled workers, and challenges to moving goods and people.
The Skills for Employability and Productivity Project will increase access to secondary education and teacher training through policy and institutional reforms, the introduction of a new public-private vocational educational model, and construction of up to 84 new secondary schools, 2 teacher training campuses and up to 4 new vocational education and training centers. MCC’s investments in transportation are designed to facilitate trade, create new business opportunities, and reduce transport costs.
Original source: MCC
Published on 16 April 2019