by Fatimata Sow | Oct 18, 2019 | Francophone West Africa, TCI News
Contributor: Hugues Ghanaoui & Sarah Brittingham Since April 2018, The Challenge Initiative (TCI) has worked side by side with the Union of Zou Municipalities and Benin’s health system to boost use of and access to family planning by institutionalizing systematic...
by Sarah Brittingham | Aug 28, 2019 | Francophone West Africa, In Their Words, TCI News
Dr. Fatoumata Touré Bamba is the regional health director in Bouaké, Cote d’Ivoire. She sat down with TCI recently to talk about changes in her city due to TCI’s presence. What was happening in Bouaké before TCI arrived? Before TCI, family planning services were...
by Kim Martin | Aug 1, 2019 | AYSRH, Francophone West Africa, TCI News
By Josephat Avoce and Kathryn Walsh There is not a more vibrant group of young people than in UCOZ, Benin, where TCI has built and mentored a team of young leaders, deemed the Jeunes Leaders Transformationnels (JLT or Young Transformational Leaders). JLT works closely...
by Sarah Brittingham | Jul 18, 2019 | AYSRH, Francophone West Africa, TCI News
Until recently, the monthly duties of Bouaké’s regional data manager included travel by motorbike to 23 district health centers to copy family planning information from handwritten registers before transferring all of the data to an Excel spreadsheet. He would then...
by Mananza Kone | Mar 18, 2019 | Francophone West Africa, General, TCI News
Abidjan’s Directorate for the Coordination of the National Maternal and Child Health Program, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, and Côte d’Ivoire’s union of elected officials (UVICOCI) are now working together to provide technical support on high-impact...
by Fatimata Sow | Aug 20, 2018 | Francophone West Africa, TCI News
The Challenge Initiative’s family planning program received high praise recently in Côte d’Ivoire from the country’s Minister of Health. Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Aouélé Eugène Aka applauded the Initiative in a July 30 speech commemorating the...
