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English_Rapport général_Table ronde mobilisation des ressources Niamey projet SWEDD

GENERAL REPORT
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The Resource Mobilization Roundtable on the sidelines of the African Union Summit was organized by the Regional Project "Empowerment of Women and Demographic Dividend in the Sahel (SWEDD)" on 6 July 2019 in Niamey under the auspices of Son Excellency Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger.
It was an opportunity to raise with force the scope, the relevance of the Project and the extent of the gains recorded for the benefit of girls, girls and women in the Sahel. The participants, technical and financial partners, representatives of private companies, NGOs and civil society actors appreciated the geographical and temporal scope of the SWEDD Project. Having actively contributed to the resource mobilization roundtable, they made specific commitments to support the project in its new phase of consolidating and deepening the gains for the empowerment of women and the capture of the demographic dividend.
Held under the theme "Investing in Women's Empowerment and Human Capital as a Development Strategy for Growth", the roundtable brought together personal commitments from policy makers, support from technical and financial partners, and private sector commitments to mobilize human, material and financial resources for women and girls. These actors have agreed to accompany SWEDD for the implementation of its Phase 2, in order to consolidate the achievements of Phase 1, expand the intervention areas of SWEDD and make the most of girls, teenagers and women.
The roundtable was a platform to illustrate the remarkable progress of the SWEDD Project, a symbol of an Africa that is progressing on the road to success. His Excellency President Issoufou reassured partners, civil society organizations and the private sector that "we will ensure a national environment conducive to investment"; He also affirmed that he will "strengthen every day the trust of investors through a fluid and transparent communication, the security of people and property, the introduction of tax incentives and especially the introduction of the good governance through the pursuit of reforms in the areas of justice, taxation, human rights, equity and gender equality ".
According to the World Bank, "the project is now fully operational and has benefited more than 170,000 girls and women. The World Bank plans to scale up its support to this project, not only by "adding new countries to the seven already participating, but also by providing additional funding at least as high as existing ones".
During the roundtable, the various partners welcomed the performances recorded and adhered to the idea of ​​deepening the SWEDD project approach. In their interventions, the partners made commitments to contribute to SWEDD project investments, and formulated guidelines with new hopes for achieving the objectives and expressed their readiness to translate into action their willingness to support this innovative initiative. empower women and capture the demographic dividend.
Based on a theory of change, a business case has been developed to facilitate the investment decision of potential lenders. In addition to the Sahel's challenges in capturing the Demographic Dividend and the progress made by the SWEDD project, this document incorporates proposals for consolidation and scaling up to 2023, based on studies by Camber Collective.
Scope of the SWEDD Project
Launched in Niamey on November 2nd, 2015, the Regional Project "Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend in the Sahel (SWEDD)" was born from the convergence of views of the six Heads of State of the participating countries (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali , Mauritania, Niger and Chad) committed to reducing the vulnerability of the populations of their country and to controlling population growth to promote the capture of the demographic dividend in the respective countries. The shared credo can be summed up as "transforming our demographic assets into an economic dividend".
To help countries in their option to accelerate economic and social growth through the control of demography, the SWEDD Project is financially supported by the World Bank, the technical support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and of the West African Health Organization (WAHO). In 2018, the project expanded to Benin in 2018 and opened in Senegal, Guinea and Cameroon.
An independent evaluation of the SWEDD Project was conducted from February to May 2019 by a team of multidisciplinary experts from the ICI-Health Consortium / IRESCO / OASYS. The evaluation report highlights the relevance of the project's institutional framework, a genuine tool for regional integration, the remarkable progress made in both programmatic and financial implementation, and the positive impact of the interventions on peace and security issues. of security. The achievements recorded and the potential for progress of the dynamics at work in the SWEDD approach have led the World Bank to decide on the extension of the project with a view to consolidation and the extension of such an initiative to 'other countries. In addition, there has been a growing commitment from governments and technical and financial partners, ECOWAS, the African Union, the World Bank and the United Nations to invest in human capital development. as a strategy for economic growth of states.
The new environment born from the geographic and temporal extension of the SWEDD Project is bringing new challenges and financing needs to achieve the goal of empowering women and capturing the demographic dividend.
Why a resource mobilization round table?
The purpose of the round table was to confirm the commitments of SWEDD States and partners and to mobilize the contributions of the private sector and bilateral and multilateral partners for the financing of women's empowerment initiatives.
It is in response to this imperative that the joint resource mobilization roundtable with Member States has benefited from the technical and financial support of the World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Population Fund. West African Health Organization. She called on the international expertise of Africa Consulting & Trading, GBC-Health and Camber Collective to develop a business case articulating the impacts of Phase 1, SWEDD2's theory of change, quantification of targets and the segmentation of the audience for realistic budgeting.
In preparation for the round table, advocacy and road-show missions were organized in member countries and with potential donors. A high-level visit was organized to the President of the Republic of Niger and the First Lady by the President of the Regional Steering Committee (CRP), Professor Mariatou Koné, Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Struggle against the poverty of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
COMMITMENTS TAKEN
At the end of the work, firm commitments were made for the consolidation of the current phase and for the temporal and spatial extension of the SWEDD project. SWEDD2 has recorded the following commitments:
a / Political commitments:
Creating an enabling environment for women's empowerment and empowerment;
The introduction of investment incentives;
Institutionalization of gender responsive governance;
Improving policies that promote gender equality and encourage emergence;
Increasing the representation of women in the administration and the participation of women in decision-making bodies;
The establishment of a financial counterpart to accompany the execution of the SWEDD project.
b / Commitments of the technical and financial partners:
The World Bank:
"Scaling up its support to this project not only by adding new countries to the seven already participating but also by providing additional funding at least as high as existing ones".UNFPA and OOAS and Bilateral and Multilateral Partners:
Technical contribution and financing of SWEDD 2 around the following axes:
Supporting the empowerment of girls and women
Support for programs to keep girls in school;
Development of women's entrepreneurship;
Capacity building of girls and women in the field of new technologies.
Support for Reproductive Health and Family Planning
Support for sexual and reproductive health programs;
Support for family planning programs.
c / Private Sector Commitments

Commitments of the Regional Consular Chamber of UEMOA
Train over two hundred thousand (200,000) girls over the next five (5) years;
Offer, during the next five years, jobs to more than five hundred thousand (500,000) women in ten Sahel countries;
Promote entrepreneurial leadership among 10,000 (10,000) women in all SWEDD countries by making them true entrepreneurs;
Intensify the awareness of the SRMNI within companies through the best technologies and communication channels.

Commitments of SOLARPAK (Ivory Coast)
Offer of 200 backpacks by the foundations of the First Ladies of the countries involved in the SWEDD project from November 2019;
Commitment to return 100FCFA per bag sold to the SWEDD project, as of the next orders;
Commitment to employ girls on bag assembly platforms in Côte d'Ivoire and elsewhere where SOLARPAK can set up assembly units.
Commitments of the CERCO GROUP (Benin, Burkina, Ivory Coast)
Organize training, incubation, co-production to support 300,000 young entrepreneur girls carrying value chain projects in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and other countries in the sub-region
To sensitize and train remotely through a training and co-creation platform, three (03) million girls on entrepreneurship, innovation, business management, leadership, family planning, in French and in local vehicular and cross-border languages.
Offer 1000 scholarships to girls in his universities and plead with his peers to do the same (goal 10,000)
Set up projects for women to create 500,000 jobs for women
As a manufacturer of phones, tablets and computers, the CERCO group will offer 5% of sales volume to support women's projects and make promotional prices up to 50% off
As a manufacturer of cash registers, the CERCO group can train women on the management of their small production unit and support them for the digital aspect (Website, mobile applications, e-commerce, etc.)
As a promoter of the MOOIS platform, a carrier grouping and project tracking system is already in place that integrates the financiers (lover Money), mentors, customers earlier adopting.
Commitments with RIDEPES / CAMES (19 African countries)
Organize its peers to set up a good training of 500,000 girls in trades jobs (agriculture, crafts, art and digital trades).
Commitments of the Chamber of Mines (Ivory Coast)
Use 35% of mining companies' annual fees to develop CSR projects to finance activities related to the SWEDD project.
Commitments of i-Civil (Burkina Faso)
To provide the recognized / indispensable technological means enabling States to offer a legal existence to each inhabitant (otherwise, it is impossible to identify / identify all the people to be supported under the SWEDD program). This through, a systematic registration of all the births of a country, and simultaneously a regularization in the civil status, of all the people called "ghosts". In Burkina Faso, this will concern all 800,000 births and 3,000,000 girls and women today without a civil status. The proportion of these figures above can be applied to other countries, which live in exactly the same situations.
6. Commitments of FAFEDE
– Initiate 6,000 women in 6 SWEDD countries to entrepreneurship with the EZF (ZERO FRANC) method, that is to say start without external financing
– Assist 6,000 women in 6 SWEDD countries to set up projects and business plans for their income-generating activities and micro and small enterprise projects, individual and in groups
– Engage a process of coaching and monitoring these women to increase the implementation of their project and the chances of sustainability of their activities
– Strengthen the ecosystem through the involvement of micro finance, channels of distribution and cooperation between these women at regional level
– Engage in a process of sustainable impact of the demographic dividend by ensuring the financial and economic autonomy of women.
NGOs and Foundations
Technical support in the development and implementation of projects;
Support for training and capacity building of health human resources;
Improved supply chain.
In view of these commitments, the SWEDD SWEDD Resource Mobilization Roundtable has been successful in both the promotion of the initiative and the commitments made by Governments. and the different technical and financial partners. This is a great source of satisfaction for the Regional Steering Committee, the Director of the UNFPA Regional Office for West and Central Africa and the SWEDD Project Regional Technical Secretariat. Professor Mariatou Koné, President of the Regional Steering Committee of SWEDD project expressed her satisfaction to see the private sector agree to accompany the project on 3 major orientations:
consolidate the achievements of phase 1,
expand the areas of intervention and
multiply the number of beneficiaries of the project.
The commitments are based on the optimism of SWEDD project stakeholders. The challenge of monitoring remains to be met in order for the commitments to be translated into action and to advance the SWEDD project in its new phase of geographical and temporal extension.
GENERAL REPORT
INTRODUCTION
At the invitation of Professor Mariatou KONE, Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and the Fight Against Poverty of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and Chair of the SWEDD Regional Steering Committee, held on Saturday 06 July 2019 in Niamey the resource mobilization roundtable for the SWEDD project. This round table is part of the consideration of new investment needs following the decision of the World Bank and the leading authorities of the SWEDD project to proceed with its temporal and geographical extension. The opening ceremony was presided by His Excellency Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger.
The purpose of the roundtable was to secure financial, technical and material contributions from the private sector and bilateral and multilateral partners to fund initiatives for the empowerment of women.
This round table was expected to confirm commitments and identify mechanisms for better articulation of investments around women's empowerment issues and demographic dividend.
HE Mr. Mahamadou, President of the Republic of Niger during his opening speech.
A varied and high level of participation
Started at 10:38 am by an opening ceremony chaired by His Excellency President Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger, the round table was enhanced by the presence of various personalities including:
Four (04) First Ladies or Representatives of First Ladies including:
Dr. Lalla Malika Issoufou, First Lady of Niger,
Mrs. Aminata Maiga Keita, First Lady of Mali,
Mariem Mint Ahmed Tekber, First Lady of Mauritania,
Madam Representative of the First Lady of Ghana,
Madam Representative of the First Lady Nigeria.
In respect of Burkina Faso
Professor Lougue Sorgho, Minister of Health
Mrs. Edith Clémence YAKA, Minister Delegate for the Budget
Under the Ivory Coast
Professor Mariatou Koné, Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and the Fight against Poverty in Côte d'Ivoire, President of the Regional Steering Committee,
Mrs. Kandia Camara, Minister of National Education, Technical Education and Vocational Training.
In respect of Mauritania
Mr Ely Oudeika, Deputy Director General of the Directorate General of Development Policies and Strategies, representing the Minister of Economy and Finance;
In respect of Mali
Mr. Adama Tiemoko Diarra, Minister of Territorial Planning and Population;
In respect of Niger
Mr Brigi Rafini, Prime Minister of Niger
Dr. Amadou Aissata ISSA Maiga, Minister of Population of Niger,
The Minister Cabinet Director of the President of the Republic,
The Minister of Finance of Niger,
The Minister of the Cultural Renaissance, Arts and Modernization of the State of Niger,
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation of Niger,
The Minister of Energy of Niger,
The Secretary of State for the Interior of Niger.
In respect of Chad
Mr. Hissein Tahir Souguimi, Secretary of State for the Economy and Development Planning.
In Benin,
Ms. Chabi Adam Taro, Minister of Social Affairs and Microfinance;M. Courpotin Denis DA CONCEICAO, Chargé de mission du Président au CNLS-TP.
In respect of Togo
Ms. Tchabinandi Kolani Yentchare, Minister of Social Action, Women's Empowerment, and Literacy.
Under the World Bank
Mrs Joelle Dehasse, Resident Representative in Niger
Mr. Djibrilla Karamoko, Technical Team Leader, Senior Health Specialist.
As a result of UNFPA
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director;
Mr. Mabingué Ngom, Regional Director for West and Central Africa;
Dr. Justin Koffi, Regional Coordinator of the SWEDD Project;
Mr. Ismaila Mbengue, Resident Representative in Niger.
Under WAHO
Mr. Stanley Okolo, General Manager.
Under the Community, Diplomatic and Media Institutions
Bank managers and other institutions supporting women's initiatives;
Representatives of the diplomatic and consular corps;
Representatives of national and international media (RACECO, Sahel, Nation, ONEP, New Africa, Anfano TV, Tambara TV …).
In the private sector:
Private Investors Council (Benin)
AFRI CONCEPT Group / NEPAD Business Group (Benin)
ICIVIL (Burkina Faso)
CERCO CAMES Group (Ivory Coast)
FAFEDE Foundation (Ivory Coast)
Professional Mining Group (Ivory Coast)
SOLAR PAK (Ivory Coast)
Chamber of Commerce (Mauritania)
Patronat (Mauritania)
Chamber of Commerce (Niger)
BCEAO (Niger)
ORANO (Niger)
BOAD (Togo)
Patronat (Togo)
Merck & Co (Senegal)
Regional Consular Chamber of UEMOA
Ecobank (Togo)
PRE-ROUND TABLE
The success of a table is in its preparatory phase. Indeed, a successful round table requires upstream good organization, good communication, appropriate event management and the development of scientific content.
Thus, to ensure the success of the resource mobilization round table for the SWEDD project scaling up, a set of activities was conducted.
Mapping potential donors
In order to optimally target potential donors, a map has been developed. This has identified private companies, development agencies, bilateral and multilateral partners, foundations and NGOs that can support the SWEDD project. The selection was made according to the policy, area and area of intervention, the thematic priorities and the financing history of the entities. This exercise resulted in a shortlist of potential donors from whom advocacy was conducted during the road show.
Business Case Development
A business case has been developed to facilitate the investment decision of potential lenders. In addition to the Sahel's challenges in capturing the Demographic Dividend and the progress made by the SWEDD project, this document incorporates the proposals for consolidation and scaling up to 2023, based on studies by Camber Collective's firm.
Pre-round table consultations
Road shows were conducted in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Benin and Togo by ACT Afrique, a firm mandated for the effective mobilization of resources.
Visits to these countries allowed advocacy with several entities identified and likely to support SWEDD.
They are: Solarpak, French Development Agency-AFD, Ecobank Foundation, United States Foundation for Development -USAFD, CERCO Group, National Chamber of Mines of Côte d'Ivoire, Chamber of Commerce of Mali, UEMOA-CCR / UEMOA Chamber of Commerce, Fidelis, National Council of Togolese Patronage, Council of Private Investors in Benin -CIPB, Investment Bank for Development of ECOWAS -BIDC, West African Development Bank -BOAD , JBC Group, International Organization of La Francophonie -OIF.
The road show was also an opportunity for the consultants to meet the SWEDD project teams to explain the overall resource mobilization strategy and collect their inputs.
In addition, bilateral consultations were also held with private companies and technical and financial partners such as Ecobank, ORANO Niger, the African Development Bank -BAD, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Niger, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation … with the aim of further strengthening the advocacy for financing the second phase of the SWEDD project.
Advocacy with Niger's Head of State
A high-level visit was made on 19 May 2019 in Niger to President Mahamadou Issoufou under the auspices of the President of the Regional Steering Committee, Prof. Mariétou Koné. This visit made it possible to inform the President of the Republic of Niger of this important activity and to obtain his strong support for its realization.
CONDUCT OF THE ROUND TABLE
I.1 / Opening Ceremony
After an introductory presentation of the issues, objectives and expected results of the round table by the moderator, Mr. Ibrahim Cheikh Diong, CEO of Africa Consulting & Trading (ACT), the opening ceremony was as follows:
I.1.1 / Welcome word
The honor came to Dr Amadou Aissata Issa Maiga, Minister of Population of Niger, to say a word of welcome to all the participants in the Round Table on Resource Mobilization. After expressing her joy at seeing this activity organized in Niamey, the Minister presented the situation of women in Niger in particular and in the Sahel countries in general. She then highlighted the impact of the implementation of the first phase and the need for funding of the second phase through actions such as:
Creation of a favorable environment for actions favoring women;
The introduction of investment incentives;
The institutionalization of gender responsive governance;
Improving policies that promote gender equality and encourage emergence;
Increasing the representation of women in the administration and the participation of women in decision-making bodies;
To this end, the Minister of Population has highlighted the urgency of bringing together more Technical and Financial Partners, especially the private sector, around the realization of such actions.
I.1.2 / Word from the Director General of WAHO: Professor Stanley OKOLO
Professor Stanley OKOLO, Regional Director of the West African Health Organization congratulated the actors who came to bring this SWEDD project to its extension. He expressed the pride of ECOWAS in seeing projects that contribute to the achievement of the SDGs set up with several partners. He renews the commitment of his institution to work to ensure that the effects of the SWEDD project have the desired impact for the people of the Sahel subregion. Finally, he wanted to wish a happy birthday to UNFPA, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
I.1.3 / Statement by the Executive Director of UNFPA: Dr. Natalia KANEM
After congratulating the various actors for the work accomplished, Dr Natalia KANEM, Executive Director of UNFPA, welcomed the progress made by the project thanks to the leadership of the various leaders, notably the Heads of State as well as the members of the organization. different SWEDD countries, civil society organizations and the private sector as well as the technical support provided by its institution. Dr. Natalia Kanem also recalled that the issue of empowering girls and women is at the heart of UNFPA's mandate. She strongly emphasized solutions to gender issues, access rights to quality reproductive health and violence against women, including the abandonment of forced and early marriages in our communities. . She then called for the implementation of all energies to carry this project successfully. To this end, the Executive Director of UNFPA invited Business Managers, Foundations, bilateral and multilateral partners to join those who were already in the dynamic to bring the SWEDD project into its phase 2 of geographical and temporal extension ..
I.1.4 / Message from the Private Sector Representative: Mr. Abdoulaye Sory,
The declaration of the private sector was made by Mr. Abdoulaye Sory, President of the Regional Consular Chamber of UEMOA. Mr. Sory said he was honored to be the voice of the private sector and to have been involved in this initiative of the SWEDD Project. He affirmed the willingness and willingness of the WAEMU Regional Consular Chamber (RCC) to mobilize private actors through the various networks and to sensitize other partners so that a private sector mobilization plan can be established in a concerted manner. to accompany this project.
As of now, Mr. Abdoulaye Sory has committed on behalf of the private sector to contribute to the development of the SWEDD project in four (4) areas:
Put in place strategies to provide better training to more than two hundred thousand (200,000) girls over the next five (5) years;
To develop projects to offer over the next five years employment for more than 500,000 women in ten Sahel countries;
Promote entrepreneurial leadership in Ten Milles (10,000) Women in all SWEDD countries by making them major entrepreneurs;
Intensify awareness on reproductive health in companies through the best technologies and communication flumes.
I.1.5 / Word from the Resident Representative of the World Bank: Ms. Joelle Dehasse
Ms. Joelle Dehasse, Resident Representative of the World Bank in Niger, reaffirmed her institution's commitment to support this regional project in achieving the targets and objectives pursued. Ms. Dehasse expressed the World Bank's satisfaction with the successes achieved, and reflected in the recent evaluation of the SWEDD project, the approach of which needs to be deepened and expanded, particularly when it comes to combining school and economic empowerment interventions for girls with reproductive health interventions. This approach has gradually emerged as a major solution to accelerate the demographic transition in the subregion. She unveiled the World Bank's ambition to scale up its support to this project by supporting new countries and providing additional funding "at least as high as existing ones" while targeting specific areas within country according to needs and gaps. The Resident Representative of the World Bank congratulated the Executive Director of UNFPA, the Chair of the Regional Steering Committee and the various actors at the regional and national levels who contribute to this success every day. Finally, she wished the Round Table every success.
I.1.6 / Statement by the President of the Regional Steering Committee
Professor Mariatou Kone warmly thanked the President of Niger, whose leadership and commitment has helped to build the trust of partners to support the initiative as well as the facilitation of the implementation of this project for four years. Then Minister Kone presented the main actions of the SWEDD project, some impacts in the countries and results obtained in the whole region. Referring to several recognized studies, the Chair of the Regional Steering Committee called on stakeholders to increase engagement so that the strong economic growth registered in sub-Saharan African countries over the last decade will result in a proportional increase in per capita income.
She also pointed out that for African countries, the key step for capturing the demographic dividend is to accelerate the decline in fertility. This involves investments, policies and laws to:
accelerate the fall in mortality, morbidity and malnutrition,
investing in education for all, especially keeping girls in school,
fight against child marriage and
increase access to family planning services.
Professor Koné, President of the SWEDD Regional Steering Committee, confirmed the need to explore other policies for the capture of the demographic dividend ie improving the business environment to build demand for labor. the stimulation of female employment and the creation of savings management institutions and national investments.
She strongly encouraged the strengthening of the partnership with the various actors to better address the issue of women's empowerment, each of which has repercussions on the life of the family and that of the entire community. While looking forward to the participation of the various partners in this round table, she wished the works success.
I.1.7 / Opening speech by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Niger
In a speech highly appreciated and widely acclaimed by the public, President Mahamadou Issoufou recalled that it was on November 2, 2015 in Niamey that some Heads of State launched the initiative which saw the engagement of several partners including the World Bank, WAHO, and UNFPA. Welcoming the arrival of Benin as the seventh country of the initiative, the President urged the commitment of the various partners to the extension of SWEDD, pledge of an unequivocal contribution to the well-being of the populations and symbol of an Africa that is progressing on the road to success.
The President of the Republic welcomed the initiative of this round table and stressed the alignment with the orientations of his government with the resolutions taken by the regional bodies including UEMOA, ECOWAS and the African Union. His Excellency President Issoufou indicated that the presence of the Heads of State of the seven countries of the SWEDD Project is a testimony of "our convergence of views on the issues and challenges for the development of our continent, especially those related to accelerating the demographic transition that depends on greater empowerment of women and enable the development of human capital as levers for accelerating economic growth and increasing the well-being of Africa's populations in general, and of the Sahel region in particular. "
His Excellency President Mahamadou Issoufou reassured partners, civil society organizations and the private sector that "we will ensure a national environment conducive to investment"; He also affirmed that he will "strengthen every day the trust of investors through a fluid and transparent communication, the security of people and property, the introduction of tax incentives and especially the introduction of the good governance through the pursuit of reforms in the areas of justice, taxation, human rights, equity and gender equality ".
Before officially launching the round table, the President of the Republic thanked the various partners who responded to the invitation of Niamey. Finally, on behalf of his African Union peers, he offered his warm congratulations to UNFPA, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
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.2 / SWEDD Project Results Panels
Theme: "Empowering women in SWEDD countries": Best practices and commitment of Member States
Facilitated by Mr Cheikh Ibrahima Diong, ACT CEO the panel was led by the supervisory ministers in charge of the SWEDD project in the member countries.
Côte d'Ivoire set the scene with an introduction by Professor Mariatou Koné, President of the Regional Steering Committee, before letting Mrs. Kandia Kamara, Minister of National Education, continue. The latter made a high-level advocacy from a perfect mastery of the issues of girls' education and its impact on the entire community. According to the Minister of National Education, with the advent of SWEDD in 2015, a common strategy has been put in place and its results speak for themselves. Côte d'Ivoire plays its part in this movement of social and economic transformation under the aegis of what Mrs Kandia Camara calls "an Alliance" between the countries of SWEDD. In the light of Côte d'Ivoire's development policy, SWEDD's contribution is at the level of four strategic axes:
School and Education "Go to school to maintain and preform with a life goal to become autonomous";
Reproductive health "Knowing to decide by either one's life as a mother's wife and an educator";
Social protection and economy "Preserving our social capital and envisioning a bright economic future";
Culture and development "Participate in social development rooted in our cultural values".
For Ms. Kandia Camara, "the empowerment of women must be at the heart of our strategic partnership with innovative approaches to ensure the socio-cultural and economic development of women". Our commitment is reflected in our desire to strengthen and consolidate the achievements, expand the areas of intervention of the various ongoing programs and target more beneficiaries to achieve the goal we set ourselves by 2030:
Zero pregnancy in school;
Zero early marriage;
Zero abandonment of girls in school.
70% of economically autonomous girls and women.
 50% for the prevalence of contraception (and 3 children per woman),
Following Côte d'Ivoire, he returned to Mali to take over. It is the Malian Minister of Territorial Planning and Population, Mr. Adama Tiémoko Diarra who presented the Malian initiative in schooling and fight against the dropout of girls in Kayes regions, Sikasso, Segou and Mopti. This initiative is called DEF and targets selected regions because of their low level of girls' education. These interventions are based on two major strategies that take into account out-of-school, out-of-school girls and those at school. The first strategy is the Accelerated Gateway Schooling Strategy (SSA / P): this is to give a second chance to girls aged 8 to 12 who have dropped out of school early or have never attended school. The second strategy is to support girls' schooling by keeping them in school until the end of the fundamental period 2.
In view of the results recorded, the Minister of Territorial Planning and Population made the following observations:
The SWEDD project gave second chance to vulnerable children who are out of school early and out of school to access school;
SWEDD project interventions in the regions of Kayes, Sikasso, Segou and Mopti have contributed a lot today to keeping girls in school and improving their school performance through direct support for girls, supports parents and guardians.
The lesson learned by Minister Adama Tiemoko Diarra is that a good combination of several interventions can increase the chances of success of our actions to keep girls in school. In the opinion of the Minister of Territorial Planning and Population, the Government of Mali remains committed to continue its efforts to enroll and keep girls in school as a major axis in its quest for acceleration of the demographic transition for achieving and exploiting the demographic dividend. The first evidence of this commitment is the continuation of the SWEDD project until the end of 2023 and the second is the signing of a financing agreement with the African Development Bank for the promotion of the Accelerated Gateway Schooling Strategy (SSA / P ) for more than 580,000 children ages 7 to 12 with a majority of girls.
After Mali, he returned to Mr. Ely Oudeika, Deputy Director General of the Directorate General of Development Policies and Strategies, Representative of the Minister of Economy and Finance of Mauritania to expose on the theme of "the implementation implementation of the SWEDD project and taking into account the religious factor ". Mr. Ely Oudeika emphasized that Mauritania very quickly understood the importance of the role of religious in the behavioral change of populations, especially when it comes to topics such as the decline of the age of marriage, the spacing of births, the use of modern methods of contraception, which are the subject of divergent interpretations and where the positions of Islam are sometimes misunderstood. In this context, Mr. Oudeika recalled the various initiatives taken by Mauritania to ensure a good involvement of religious leaders for a quality contribution to major actions of the SWEDD Project (mapping of religious leaders, partnership with Al Azhar University of Egypt , development of a training curriculum for religious (men and women) on population issues, participation in the development of the national communication strategy for social change and behavior, validation of communication tools and supports, active participation to the media campaign of diffusion of the messages, validation and contextualisation of the curricula of the safe spaces and the schools of the future husbands Presently, 400 religious leaders (men and women) are mobilized today to ensure activities of sensitization with the communities, which will reach more than 10,000 beneficiaries across the spaces rs and clubs husbands who are divided in levels of a hundred countries of the localities.
Burkina Faso took over with Professor Lougue Sorgho, Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, who presented on the Memorandum for Family Planning. She explained that Burkina Faso's commitments to family planning are aligned with the most recent development policy frameworks, including the 2016-2020 National Plan for Economic and Social Development (PNDES) and the National Plan for Health Development. (PNDS, 2011-2020). In addition, since 2011 Burkina Faso has been home to the Ouagadougou Partnership for the Promotion and Acceleration of Family Planning. Also, following the commitments made at regional and international meetings, Burkina Faso has developed various standards at the national level, including:
The national plan for securing FP products that was followed by the national plan for securing SR products;
The repositioning of FP as a priority intervention has been adopted;
The National Family Planning Acceleration Plan for the period 2017-2020. With a global cost of 28.58 billion FCFA, this new plan is aligned with strategic priorities in Burkina Faso.
The regular registration of a budget line dedicated to the purchase of contraceptive products of 500,000,000 FCFA with an increase of at least 10% each year is one of the strong commitments made by the government.
In addition, to boost family planning indicators, several actions have been carried out, among which we can mention:
Delegation of tasks in the field of FP;
Development of a national self-injection strategy of DMPA-SC (Sayana Press) successfully piloted;
Organization twice a year of National Family Planning Week on a regular basis since 2012;
FP postpartum / post abortum;
The recruitment of 17,000 ASBCs, offering community-based distribution of contraceptives, the delegation of PF tasks including the administration of DMPA-SC subcutaneously.
The development of the national strategy for total free FP that began on 24 June in two health regions and will be gradually spreading to other regions of the country;
biannual acquisition of contraceptive acquisition tables to allow realistic quantification and the development of adequate supply plans;
weekly surveillance of SR products.
For Chad, he returned to Mr. Hissein Tahir Souguimi, Secretary of State for the Economy and Development Planning to present the experience of "Strengthening the economic power of women for the reduction of gender gaps and achievement equity and equality "through the strategy of training girls and women in trades traditionally reserved for men. This strategy has two components:
training of women members of farmers' groups in the operation and maintenance of tractors and tillers; and
training of girls in the field of renewable energies including installation and maintenance of solar panels, assembly of satellite dishes and electricity building.
In the opinion of Mr. Hissein Tahir Souguimi, Secretary of State for the Economy and Development Planning, this strategy experienced in a country like Chad, known for the weight of socio-cultural and religious heaviness outrageous, is a revolution and a true symbol of emancipation for women. It has a dual purpose:
create opportunities for adolescent girls and women and women to economic empowerment by ensuring their access to resources and their control and participation in decision-making in general and economic empowerment in particular;
strengthen the knowledge and skills of adolescent girls, girls and women for their self-empowerment and empowerment through the acquisition of personal life skills for their effective self-reliance.
The report shows that 112 women were initiated in driving, use and maintenance of tractors, tillers and 168 girls and teenage girls were trained in installation of solar panels, satellite dish installation and electricity.
Mr. Hissein Tahir Souguimi concluded by noting that with regard to the documented benefits, SWEDD Chad intends to invest more in order to consolidate the gains resulting from this practice with a view to the effective empowerment of these girls and women plunged into extreme precariousness.
For Niger, Dr. Amadou Aissata ISSA MAIGA Minister of Population of Niger made the presentation on improving the empowerment of women and girls, which is in line with that of Chad. It is a question of bringing the various actors to understand the stakes and opportunities offered by non-traditional trades (the industrial and technical sectors such as the electricity building, solar panel installation, rural mechanics, plumbing, metal carpentry electricity and water meters, generator set repairs) and traditional (AGR, agro-silvo-pastoralism, sewing) for girls / women and to be aware of their responsibilities in order to assume them fully. The Phase 1 project targets 3500 girls and women who are out of school or out of school (aged 15 to 24). These 3500 girls and women are trained in life skills and reproductive health and complete their training in vocational training at 70% in industrial sectors at 70 Centers of Trades Training (CFM) and Center for Training and Promotion of Women (CFPF). In the current state, the achievements are in the format of four major activities: raising awareness and recruiting a first cohort of 1,500 girls and young women, sensitizing 853 community leaders to enroll girls and young women in the sectors non-traditionally female trades, development of professional and entrepreneurial qualifications of recruits and insertion of girls and young women trained in the labor market and provided with installation kits, facilitation of internships, setting up of apprenticeship mentoring in partnership with the private sector.
Challenges have been reported. It is :
Providing placements and socio-professional integration, mentoring, learning in partnership with the private sector for girls and women trained;
put trained women and girls in touch with financial services for the financing of their microprojects;
provide practical training for women and girls in crafts;
support the inclusion of women and girls in the labor market;
support the orientation of GIEs to microfinance institutions or other structures with a view to their access to financing their individual activities.
Finally, the Minister of Population of Niger has expressed the commitment of the Government to strengthen and consolidate the achievements, expand the areas of intervention and target more beneficiaries to achieve the goal we set ourselves by 2023 .
To conclude the panel, the moderator, Mr. Cheikh Ibrahim Diong, asked the authorities to make an address to the donors. Countries delivered strong messages to convince them of the SWEDD project and the opportunity to participate in the demographic transition and economic development of the region:
Niger: Involvement and support of the private sector in scaling up the project to reach more beneficiaries with SWEDD II.
Mali: Play on the age pyramid in SWEDD spaces in order to reverse the trend of high fertility in the region to benefit from the demographic dividend. To do this, the SWEDD must know a temporal and spatial extension
Côte d'Ivoire: Obtain funding support so that the people of the Sahel countries can have their autonomy. But also so that it has fewer and fewer young people who take the risk of going on an adventure and less and less crises in countries related to the problem of employability of young people.
Mauritania: Get extra donor effort to continue supporting girls' schooling and improving reproductive health. But also to allow the scaling up of progress and impacts achieved.
Burkina: Enable countries to carry out exchanges as part of the appropriation of successful experiences.Enable countries that knock on SWEDD's door to access resources without those already engaged in SWEDD I having their gains diminished by the participation of new members.
Provide human and financial resources to address the recruitment of our unemployed youth to extremist groups in the Sahel region.
In conclusion of this panel, everyone agreed that SWEDD I was a great success. It is therefore important to pursue for three main reasons:
consolidate the gains;
expand the intervention areas of the program;
target as many beneficiaries as possible.
I.3 / Global Resource Mobilization Strategy for SWEDD and Investment Needs for Scaling
This session was moderated by the SWEDD Regional Coordinator Dr Justin Koffi, who recalled:
the socio-economic progress achieved in the Sahel: sustained economic growth in the region, poverty reduction of 31% in 25 years, reduction of infant mortality from 167 ‰ to 90 ‰, increase of the education rate by 53% at 80% and the reduction of gender inequalities; and
Challenges for dividend capture: health and food challenges, climate challenges, high population growth leading to a large number of dependents in families and thus slowing economic growth.
Faced with these challenges, the Heads of State of the six countries launched, through President Mahamadou Issoufou, the founding appeal of November 6, 2013 aimed at achieving the demographic transition by reducing the number of people in charge in households. . For the realization of this call, the SWEDD Project was formulated with the technical support of UNFPA and WAHO and the financing of the World Bank to be implemented in the six countries (Burkina Faso, Côte d Ivory, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad).
Between 2015 and 2018, considerable progress has been made, with considerable impacts including:
an increase in contraceptive prevalence with 4,302,000 additional women on contraception;
the increase in the secondary school completion rate from 35.1% to 40.3% between 2015 and 2018;
improving the average income of women by 3.4% in 2018;
the decrease in the number of child marriages.
Based on this progress and the combined approach of school and economic girls' empowerment interventions with reproductive health interventions and the theory of change to accelerate demographic transition, were formulated for the consolidation and scaling up of the SWEDD Project by 2023.
These proposals concern not only the seven countries of the SWEDD Project but also the new countries aspiring to integrate SWEDD: Cameroon, Guinea and Senegal.
The theory of change advocates investing in girls' empowerment to accelerate economic growth.
To do this, three categories of key needs have been identified and must be addressed in order to achieve gender equality in the SWEDD project area and benefit women's productivity. This is the improvement of:
sexual and reproductive health (SRH);
girls' education;
social protection and economic opportunity.
According to this theory of change, if adequate actions are taken to, on the one hand, postpone marriage and pregnancy to adulthood, and on the other hand to increase girls' productivity and incomes, then long-term results will lead to:
an acceleration of the demographic transition;
improved human development (HR) outcomes and gender relations;
Fair economic growth.
Based on the postulate, an evaluation was conducted in ten (10) countries and revealed that a total of 13.5 million girls are not exploiting their full potential.
An approach of segregation of the target was used to reach this conclusion. Indeed, this approach made it possible to understand the stakes and to identify the lines of intervention in each of the ten (10) countries.
The characteristics considered are the following:
• the acuity of needs;
• the potential for change;
• access to the area.
This work made it possible to obtain the following cartography which gives information on the volume of the target, the different intervention zones to be considered, as well as the appropriate actions to be carried out according to the characteristics of each zone.
3937000393700049764958592185The challenge is so big but the opportunity too. Dr. Koffi concluded by calling for a partnership between governments, the private sector and donors to create the conditions necessary to capture the demographic dividend, by supporting the following areas:
• funding for retention for girls at school;
• training and capacity building;
• Job creation and professional integration of trained girls.
• Strengthening the supply chain of SR products.
• communication: support for advocacy on SRH, education, and early marriage;
• Creating supportive environments for empowering girls.
 With high hopes for reducing the vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women and gender inequalities, the SWEDD Project lays the foundation for capturing the demographic dividend in the Sahel. Its extension until December 31, 2023 is an additional opportunity for consolidation, scaling up of best practices in providing opportunities for women to participate in economic growth.
I.4 / Statements of support from private sector partners
At the end of the various presentations on the achievements, the impacts, the stakes and the challenges related to the empowerment of women and the opportunity of the capture of the demographic dividend to impact the economic growth, several entities expressed an interest and / or formulate firm promises to accompany the second phase of the SWEDD project.
The table below summarizes all the commitments made during the event.
N°
Structure
Nom du Responsable
Engagement pris
1
CERCO GROUP
(Ivory Coast)
Alain Capo CHICHI
Organize its peers to set up training for 200,000 girls in job-creating jobs;
Offer scholarships to girls at universities and advocate with peers to do the same;
Implement projects for women to create 50,000 jobs for women;
Offer tablets to a number of women to support them in their project.
2
FAFEDE
(Ivory Coast)
Samuel MATHEY
Training of 6,000 women in six countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad) in entrepreneurship with the EZF (ZERO FRANC) method, ie start without external funding ;
Assist these women in setting up projects and business plans for their income-generating activities and micro and small enterprise projects, individually and in groups;
Initiate a process of coaching and monitoring these women to increase the implementation of their project and the chances of sustainability of their activities;
Strengthen the ecosystem through the involvement of microfinance, channels of distribution and cooperation between these women at the regional level;
• Engage in a process of sustainable impact of the demographic dividend by ensuring the financial and economic autonomy of women.
3
Chamber of Mines (Ivory Coast)
Ibrahima DANSO
Commitment to mobilize the mining companies of Côte d'Ivoire in order to benefit to the SWEDD project the tax levied on the turnover of the mining companies.
However, it is necessary to formalize at the national level the collaboration between the local development committees and the SWEDD project.
In 2018, the turnover of the mining companies amounted to about 580 billion CFA francs, giving rise to 3 billion community development tax, part of which (35% hoped for) could be devoted to SWEDD projects.
4
CIPB
(Bénin)
Roland RIBOUX
Commitment to sensitize CIPB members on the theme to help them contribute to the financing of SWEDD activities;
Promoting women's employment in CIPB member companies
Commitment to developing a partnership with SWEDD as part of the CIPB's Women Empowerment Program.
This program has already enabled the employment of 800 women in a mahogany shelling factory.
5
Groupe AFRICONCEPT BROADCAST TELESOM S.A.
(NEPAD Business Group-Bénin)
KOUFERIDJI Ramanou
Commitment to media coverage of SWEDD and to train young people and women in audiovisual professions;
Commitment to use the group's audiovisual channels in Benin to ensure the communication of the SWEDD project;
NEPAD Business Group-Benin's commitment to mobilize and motivate the private sector in Benin and Africa to obtain their contributions and support for the achievement of SWEDD objectives.
All these actions will have to be done in partnership with SWEDD.
6
SOLARPAK
(Côte d’ivoire)
Mme Vieira Laetitia
Commitment to offer 200 backpacks by First Ladies Foundation of countries involved in the SWEDD project as of November 2019;
Commitment to donate 100FCFA per bag sold to the SWEDD project, as of the next orders;
Commitment to employ girls on bag assembly platforms in Ivory Coast and elsewhere where the company set up assembly units.
7
MSD
Docteur Oumar D. FALL
• Commitment to accompany SWEDD in the areas of intervention of the MSD, including the supply chain, training …
8
BOAD
Wish to work with SWEDD countries to promote private sector financing.
Commitment to provide support in setting up and financing projects, starting from the bank's private counter
Develop projects with SWEDD focal points to benefit from credit lines dedicated to women's SMEs
9
NIGER Chamber of Commerce
Djadah Abdoulaye
Promotion of women's entrepreneurship by associating the SWEDD project with the concept of "shared costs" developed within the Chamber of Commerce.
This concept involves three parties who are the project promoter, a bank and a technical partner. The usual funding scheme is:
• a personal contribution by the promoter (10%);
• a grant in equipment (50%);
• a credit (40%).
This concept makes it possible to finance income-generating activities, especially in the agricultural sector.
10
ICIVIL
(Burkina)
Clément KAISER
Support the SWEDD project throughout Burkina Faso;
Extend the intervention of ICIVIL in other SWEDD countries.
• Scaling of the ICVIL project (registration of all births) by the end of the year.
11
Chamber of Commerce Mauritania
Mohamed Lafdal BETTAH
Advocacy with businesses to take women's empowerment into account;
the Chamber is working on the creation of a fund to finance women's networks and SMEs;
• Creation of a female employers' organization, at the level of Mauritanian employers.
12
UEMOA Regional Consular Chamber
(TOGO)
SORY Abdoulaye
(Burkina Faso)
Train more than 200,000 girls for 5 years;
Offer, during the next five years, jobs to more than 500,000 women in ten Sahel countries;
Promote entrepreneurial leadership among Ten Milles (10,000) women in all SWEDD countries by making them leaders of large companies;
Increase awareness of reproductive health in companies through the best technologies and communication flumes.
14
Président de la BOAD
Christian Adovelande
Grant of 2,500,000 FCFA to support the organization of the round table
15
Ecobank
M. Sebastian 
Ashong-Katai
Leadership and Financial Management Training
Development of a MoU for empowerment activities based on the business case.
RESULTS
At the end of this table at least five main results can be retained:
Business Case Approval
The presentation on the business case allowed the actors present at the roundtable to better understand the issues to increase investment in favor of women, teenagers and girls. Indeed, the study conducted among the 10 countries revealed that 13.5 million girls do not exploit their full potential.
Intervention paths in each of these countries have therefore been identified. It is :
– funding for retention for girls at school;
– training and capacity building;
– job creation and professional integration of trained girls.
– strengthening the supply chain of SR products.
– communication: support for awareness raising on SRH, education, and early marriage
– creation of supportive environments for empowering girls.
All the commitments made during the round table fall within this framework, and with a view to consolidating and extending the achievements of Phase 1.
A multisectoriality of support around the theme of the empowerment of women
The round table made it possible to converge the investment wishes around the woman. Representatives of structures working in the field of health, education, training, employment, economy etc. have all mobilized together to help women and girls to reach their full potential.
3. High level political commitments
During the roundtable, policymakers reaffirmed their commitment to encourage and increase investment for the empowerment of women and girls to enable more women to reach their full potential.
4. Commitments of technical and financial partners
At least $ 290 million or more will be mobilized by the World Bank to scale SWEDD in Phase 2.
Also, UNFPA and WAHO are always ready to provide technical support in the following areas:
Programs to keep girls in school;
Development of women's entrepreneurship;
Capacity building of girls and women in new technologies;
Sexual and reproductive health programs.
5. Private sector commitments
The main commitments made by the private sector show that:
300,000 young entrepreneurial girls carrying value chain projects in Benin, Burkina, Côte d'Ivoire and other countries of the sub-region will be trained in entrepreneurship / incubation and accompanied;
500,000 girls in job-related jobs (agriculture, crafts, art and digital professions) will also be trained / supported;
1000 scholarships will be offered to girls in universities;
Young people will also be trained on how to develop projects and start starting from Zero F;
200 backpacks will be donated by the First Ladies Foundation of countries involved in the SWEDD project from November 2019;
100 FCFA per bag sold will be donated to the SWEDD project;
Jobs will be created for girls on bag assembly platforms;
The technology developed by i-Civil to facilitate registration at birth for birth registration states will be used by Burkina Faso and other SWEDD member countries;
the entrepreneurial leadership of ten thousand (10,000) women in all SWEDD countries by making them a true entrepreneur will be promoted;
Intensify awareness / media communication around SWEDD.
NEXT STEPS
Activity
Responsible
JUL
AUG
SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC
Relaunch some partner institutions that have a certain interest in the theme (targeted pursuit of Roadshow: WSSCC, Ecobank, BOAD, DGIS)
UNFPA
GBC Health
ACT
Develop letters of thanks and confirmation of interest
UNFPA
GBCHealth
ACT
Develop MoUs with Partners (ICivil, Solarpak, Mines, UEMOA CCR, CERCO CAMES, Africoncept Medias, Ecobank, WSSCC)
UNFPA
UGPs SWEDD
GBCHealth
Develop action plans and sub-projects based on the modes of engagement
ACT
UGPs SWEDD
Finalize the Business Case with costing
ACT
Camber
Finalize the road map for applications for financing from the World Bank (finalization of costing, identification of new countries, requests for funding for current countries)
UNFPA
CONCLUSION
The holding of the resource mobilization roundtable for SWEDD scaling was a success both in terms of promoting the initiative and at the level of the commitments made by the Governments and the various technical and technical partners. financial. This is a great source of satisfaction for the Regional Steering Committee, the Director of the UNFPA Regional Office for West and Central Africa and the SWEDD Regional Technical Secretariat. Professor Mariatou Koné, President of the Regional Steering Committee of the SWEDD project expressed her satisfaction to see the private sector agree to accompany the project for three main reasons: consolidate the achievements of Phase 1, expand the areas of intervention and multiply the number of project beneficiaries. The commitments are based on the optimism of SWEDD project stakeholders.
The roundtable brought together more than 150 personalities from all walks of life and served as a platform for positioning the issue of women's empowerment and the demographic dividend at the heart of the African continent's development agenda. The mobilization of all these leaders, managers and actors but also the number and quality of the commitments demonstrate, if necessary, the relevance of the approach pursued so far by the SWEDD project and the problems it addresses.
 The challenge of monitoring remains to be met in order for the commitments to be translated into action and to advance the SWEDD project in its new phase of geographical and temporal extension.