Africa: SWEDD 2 kicks off as the SWEDD initiative goes to scale

Building on the remarkable results and good practices with high potential for sustainability, scaling up of the SWEDD will benefit millions of girls and young women in the Sahel region and beyond, until 2023.

Abidjan, 3 February 2020 - The ambitious and innovative project the Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend - SWEDD, aims to accelerate the demographic transition by creating the conditions for a demographic dividend. A three-day workshop on Strategic Reflection and Phase 2 of the SWEDD project, (SWEDD 2) begins on Monday, 3 February 2020, at the Palm Club Hotel in Abidjan, under the auspices of Professor Mariétou Koné, Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Fight against Poverty of Côte d'Ivoire.

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