After the northern regions, the headquarters of the regional council of the city of Ali Sabieh hosted an official launch ceremony last Wednesday of the youth entrepreneurship project of the Ali-Sabieh region. This saw the participation of the deputy prefect, Mohamed Houmed Abass, the vice-president of the regional authority for decentralization, Nouh Saïd Gueldon, the ...

A signing ceremony of partnership between the Djiboutian Social Development Agency and the Leadership Center was organized in the CLE auditorium, this Thursday, January 23, 2019. The purpose of this partnership is to initiate one of the major components of the Youth and Women Entrepreneurship Support Project, namely the training of women and young people ...

After a delegation of members of the World Bank Group Board of Directors visited Obock from January 10 to 12, 2020, as part of the Development Response to Displacement in the Horn of Africa project, The time has come for the World Bank to address these thanks to the Republic of Djibouti, and especially to ...

By end of 2018, the IGAD region hosted 3.89 million refugees and slightly more than 9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). Despite the concerted efforts, the IGAD region has been experiencing signicant levels of forced displacement and mixed migration ows. This trend continues to exert strains on governments and their resources, especially when displacement situations ...

It was a festive occasion when the street lights came on the main street of Holl Holl in Djibouti. Children, women, and men had waited patiently for this moment – when electricity department workers hoisted 190 utility poles along Holl Holl’s streets, and finally, in May 2019, all houses and public buildings were successfully connected ...

The conference room of the Al-Rahma complex hosted last Thursday a fund-raising ceremony for the benefit of eight young promoters of business projects, from different neighborhoods of the Balbala district. The initiative is part of the Youth Employment and Handicrafts Project (PROPEJA), set up by the Djibouti Social Development Agency (ADDS) to improve the accessibility ...

Inserting young people fully into the labor market is one of the major priorities of the government’s roadmap, which, through the different departments responsible for youth issues, is pursuing a policy of this kind. It is with this in mind that the Djiboutian Social Development Agency (ADDS) held last Thursday at the Community Development Center ...

The Djiboutian Agency for Social Development (ADDS) held Sunday, May 6, an information and awareness workshop on access to the Community Development Fund (CDF) project PARISER, funded by the African Development Bank (ADB) . The initiative was part of the implementation of the ADDS community program. These community talks, which were held in the meeting ...

The Higher Institute of Accounting and Business Administration (ISCAE) hosted Thursday in the late afternoon an end-of-training ceremony on business creation. On Thursday, 40 young people from the Obock, Tadjourah and Dikhil regions received their end-of-training certificates on entrepreneurship. This learning session, which began three days earlier, is part of the Local Youth Empowerment and ...

Under the auspices of the Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Mouna Osman Aden, the Djiboutian Agency for Social Development (ADDS) conducted last Monday in Obock, the distribution of agricultural equipment for agricultural cooperatives from this region. The event saw the participation of the Obock Region Prefect, the Director of ADDS, the Agriculture and Forestry ...

Better equip members of the National Commission for Micro-Finance on the fundamentals and operations of the micro-finance sector. This was the goal of the two-day training that started yesterday at the People’s Palace of Djibouti. The Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Mouna Osman Aden, yesterday proceeded to the People’s Palace at the launch of ...

The Caisse Populaire d’Epargne and Credit d’Djibouti (CPEC) was created in 2008 following the initiative of national solidarity for social development, launched by the President of the Republic, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh. This program aims to reduce poverty in Djibouti. Since 2009, the CPEC has been at the forefront of the fight against poverty. Its registered ...