{"id":8213,"date":"2024-03-20T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:34:30","slug":"celebrating-ja-africas-impact-in-francophone-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/celebrating-ja-africas-impact-in-francophone-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating JA Africa&#8217;s Impact in Francophone Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this International Day of Francophonie, let us take this opportunity to celebrate some of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">our recent programming in Francophone countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JA Africa has engaged on a deliberate expansion plan into Francophone countries since<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2022. Last year has seen the implementation of JA programs in six Francophone countries;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar Mauritius and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senegal, impacting the lives of more than 25,000 young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DRC-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the highlights were the return of JA Programs in Burkina Faso and Senegal since<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 and 2018 respectively. Around 3,000 young people were trained through the Passeport<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour Le Futur Program in Burkina Faso. Young people in Senegal were also once again able<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to benefit from JA Programs through the Delta Innovation Camp, while 50 girls also learned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">about STEM related careers through the GE Girls in STEM Progeam. Senegal also hosted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">its first Company Program since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JA Programs were also implemented for the first time in Madagascar, through the JA DEEP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">program, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, through the Passeport Pour Le Futur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Madagascar-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mauritius and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire also increased their reach in 2023, with one of the main highlight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">being the start of the Social Equity Program in Abidjan. Last year also saw the return of both<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">countries at the JA Africa Regional Company of the Year Competition in Kigali, in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JA Africa also hosted its inaugural Francophone entrepreneurial pitch competition, Jeunes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entrepreneurs de Demain (JED), which was won by JD Agro from the Democratic Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above was achieved first through the securing of partnerships with key stakeholders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with Ministries as well as other NGOs. Some of those partnerships formalised being with the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result was also achieved through the strengthening of the JA team in the Francophone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">countries, through some key recruitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year 2024 will see the continued expansion in Francophone countries, with programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">being implemented in Togo as well as seeing the expansion of JA programs in the existing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">countries. The Social Equity Program will also be expanded to Burkina Faso, Democratic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republic of Congo as well as Togo. The year 2024 will also end with Mauritius hosting the JA Africa Regional Company of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Year in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The expansion into Francophone countries was made possible thanks to the support from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing, Delta, GE, PMIEF, The Coca Cola Foundation, The Tomorrow Foundation and The<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Z-Zurich Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this International Day of Francophonie, let us take this opportunity to celebrate some of our recent programming in Francophone countries. JA Africa has engaged on a deliberate expansion plan into Francophone countries since 2022. Last year has seen the implementation of JA programs in six Francophone countries; Burkina Faso, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Democratic Republic of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/celebrating-ja-africas-impact-in-francophone-africa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating JA Africa&#8217;s Impact in Francophone Africa<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gefed-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}