Côte d’Ivoire - Project to Develop Youth Skills, Entrepreneurship and Employment (PACE)

The total cost of this project amounts to 150.17 million UA, financed to the tune of 104.00 million UA by an AfDB loan, 34.63 million UA by national counterpart, 11.00 million UA by an ADF loan and 0.54 million UA by the Port Authority of Abidjan. The Bank's intervention will help the country meet all these challenges by equipping young people with the skills required by the productive private sector. The project will support them in their entrepreneurial journey or socio-professional integration, through targeted investments in the development of skills, employability, entrepreneurship, including access to financial and non-financial services, the development of MSMEs and the private sector in general.