Plan Awarded Sizable Grant to Fight Child Trafficking in Burkina Faso
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st, Plan International USA was granted $2 million in funds to aid child trafficking survivors in Burkina Faso. The project, aptly named Strengthening Assistance for Child Trafficking Survivors, is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Plan International USA is joining forces with a local NGO in Burkina Faso, The Keoogo Association, to implement this much needed undertaking.
Plan International USA will work to keep children attending school in Burkina Faso, where child sex trafficking is prevalent. (Photo credit: Plan International USA)
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AfDB approves $11.26m to Chad to finance women education
The Project aims to help improve access to quality secondary education in a safe and healthy school environment for 5,000 girls as well as train 2,200 teachers and administrative officials.AfDB | Updated: 08-01-2021 18:31 IST | Created: 08-01-2021 18:31 IST
Project components have provisions to help supply both schools with safe drinking water, solar power, school clinics, build girl-friendly latrines, as well as establish computer and science laboratories. Image Credit: Pixabay
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a grant of $11.26 million to the Government of Chad to finance the Girls Education and Women s Literacy Project– the first Bank grant exclusively targeting women and girls.
Chad: The African Development Bank grants $11.26 million for women and girls’ education
The Project aims to help improve access to quality secondary education in a safe and healthy school environment for 5,000 girls
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, January 8, 2021/APO Group/
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved a grant of $11.26 million to the Government of Chad to finance the Girls Education and Women s Literacy Project– the first Bank grant exclusively targeting women and girls.
The project will be financed from the Bank s Transition Support Facility and will be implemented over a five-year period by the Chadian Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion, in coordination with partners involved in the education sector, civil society organisations, and youth organisations. The Chadian government will contribute a non-monetary contribution of $713,000 towards the program.
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January 8, 2021
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a grant of $11.26 million to the Government of Chad to finance the Girls’ Education and Women’s Literacy Project – the bank’s first grant exclusively targeting women and girls.
The project will be financed from the Bank’s Transition Support Facility and will be implemented over a five-year period by the Chadian Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion, in coordination with partners involved in the education sector, civil society organisations, and youth organisations. The Chadian government will contribute a non-monetary contribution of $713,000 towards the program.
“Through this financing, the African Development Bank is providing support to the Chadian government to reduce inequalities through access to education – especially for girls. This enables the development of job skills and the improvement of women’s productivity potential through literacy, job training