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There are 219 entrepreneurs and jobseekers who have taken Citi Payed's capacity-building program, initiated by the American firm Technoserve, everywhere.
The Plateau Company's house housed on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 the closing ceremony of the first phase of Technoserve's capacity building program, known as "Citi-Payed". Funded by Citi Bank through its foundation, the project has trained 219 Ivorians including 134 entrepreneurs. According to Alexis Anouan, project manager for the firm, there are 1,878 registrations qi were registered on the 400 expected including 1,229 job seekers and 649 project holders. At the end of the selections, 219 were able to benefit from training and coaching sessions in order to better manage their projects from conception to implementation, for the former and a more efficient approach. for job seekers. The objective is to promote professional integration and develop entrepreneurship.
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The Regional Director General Technoserve for West Africa, Katarina Kahlmann, for her part, has noted the potential of SMEs whose contribution to GDP is estimated at 20%.
Edwige Folquet, representing Khady Ndiaye Toure, Executive Director of Citibank Côte d'Ivoire welcomed the welcome given to the initiative. She appreciated the high participation of women in the program (53% of trainees) and called on all beneficiaries to make the most of this training. "Now that you have been coached (…) make good use of it and quickly transform these achievements," she urged.
Various project leaders have, at the end of competitions, been distinguished for the first time. quality and relevance of their projects while job seekers were also awarded prizes for highlighting the tools received during these months of training. 7 laureates have been awarded for various projects (agribusiness, crafts, …). Based on the promotion of entrepreneurship, access to finance and socio-professional integration, the program has, in addition to Côte d'Ivoire, been initiated in Kenya and Nigeria.
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