PARO-CI

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PARO-CI: Waste Management & Recycling in Côte d'Ivoire

Abidjan, Ivory CoastAbidjan, Ivory Coast
Year Founded:
2010
Organization type: 
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Project Stage:
Growth
Budget: 
$10,000 - $50,000
Website:
http://cirecyclage.blogspot.com/
Twitter: 
@paroci
Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/paroci
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Project Summary
Elevator Pitch

Concise Summary: Help us pitch this solution! Provide an explanation within 3-4 short sentences.

PAROCI addresses the environmental issue in Côte d'Ivoire. The project employs the youth in waste management and recycling activities. In efforts to improve community's life, PARO-CI creates opportunities for the youth to work and develops a green economy through the waste management and recycling

WHAT IF - Inspiration: Write one sentence that describes a way that your project dares to ask, "WHAT IF?"

the youth encures a sustaible environment
About Project

Problem: What problem is this project trying to address?

PARO-CI addresses the waste issue in Côte d'Ivoire.

Solution: What is the proposed solution? Please be specific!

We setted up a system to collect the waste from households and public places, sorting them out and recycling artisanally solid waste into artwork and organic waste into fermenter.This helps prevent waste pollution, but also permits to create some new values.
Impact: How does it Work

Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.

As an example, the project has contributed to collecting and recycling more than 25000kg of electronics, picking up about 3000kg of household waste from houses per day We created more than 100 artworks with solid waste and made 17 000 kg of fermenter with organic waste.

Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.

Social impact: We improve the living conditions of people within our community. We also create some job opportunities for the youth in waste management activities. Environment: We prevent pollution and sickness proliferation and encure a good environment where it feels good to live. Economy: We create income gerating activities to keep the good job going and pay the employees.. In the furure, we really want ton increase these impacts when expanding the project.

Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?

We intend to set up a very dynamic system of waste management with some representation in every city of the country. by 5 years, we are planning to build a real waste management and recycling business with a strong potential to manage 1/3 of the global production of waste nationwide. We also want to have More than 500 young people employed to do the job. Ina word, we intend to be a business model, a success story in waste management domain in Côte d'Ivoire.
Sustainability

Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?

We develop some waste - made products ( recycled art, fermenter, electronic panel, etc) that we sell to make money for the organization. Some houses also pay a small amount of money to us for picking up the trash from their place. We also go for competitions and small grants THese are the major ways we plan the financial sustainability of the project.

Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?

We are pionner in our domain and at leadership position. We do not suffer from any tough concurrence.
Team

Founding Story

In 2010 as a youth leader I attended to a US Sponsored Program called Study of the US Institute on Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship in Uconn. Ashoka gave the training on social entrepreneurship and how thre youth can be changemaker in their community as they are a powerful potential. This ignited in me the flame to get something done for my community. When back home I started my venture and Have been fully devoted to it until now.

Team

Evariste AOHOUI CEO Full-time; Celine KOFFI, secretary Ful time; Alex BAllou, Electronics Processing Section Head Full time; AWI Mewine-Eso Artwork Section Head Full time; Daniel Boussou Education & Community Service Section Head Full time; Danielle Kanon Finances Section Head Full time; Oumar Kouamé Sales & Marketing Manager Full time; Odile Ano, Planning & Development Officer Full time, etc.
About You
About You
First Name

Evariste

Last Name

AOHOUI

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Project
Organization Country

Ivory Coast, Abidjan

Country where this project is creating social impact

Ivory Coast, Abidjan

What awards or honors has the project received?
Funding: How is your project financial supported?

Customers, Other.

Supplemental
Awards: What awards or honors has your solution received, if any?

DAART 2012, West African Research Center, Senegal
Forum 100 Innovations for Sustainable Development in Africa 2013, AFD
ITEC/ISCAP 2014, V.V. GIRI Labour Institute, Noida, India
Innove4Africa 2014, Synapse Center, Senegal
Forum of the Youth in Francophonie 2014, CNJS, Senegal

Tell us about your partnerships

They are directors of institutions which acknowledged the work of our organization.

Both West African Research Center and French Development Agency organized international competitions in which we were declared to be respectively among the 11 tops in West Africa and among the 100 tops in Africa.

Challenges: What challenges might hinder the success of your project and how do you plan to overcome them?

Technical and financial support are the main challenge likely to hinder the success of our project. To fix this, we build some strong technical partnership with other organizations at national and international level. Regarding finance, we developed a strategy of re-investment of the ROI we are making untill we have enough financial resources to go the next step on our project.

How does your idea help young people create bright futures and improve opportunities for meaningful and long-term careers?

We improve the living conditions of people in our community and in so doing create new opportunities for the youth we are. We just ourselves in hand and help ourselves through improving our community. In fact we setted up a sound waste management system and employ the youth in organizinf activities such as collecting the waste, sorting the waste and recycling the waste ( both solid waste and electrnocis) into new resources. We build a green economy, create some job opprtunities for ourselves and protect the environment . Almost 25 young people work today in our project. Our approach to advance the youth when dealing with the employment situation is to set up a dynamic paradigm connecting the sustainable development's points which are improving the youth and the community social situation, protecting the environement and developing a green economy to ensure the sustainability of our project.

Target Age Group(s): What age group(s) do(es) your solution target through it's programming?

18-35.

Intervention Focus: Identify which of the following best explain key parts of your solution

Job Creation, Entrepreneurship, Community.

Do you have separate programs or initiatives that target the following types of populations?

Boys/Men.

Impact - Reach: How many people did your project directly engage in programmatic activities in the last year?

501 to 1,000

Number of People Directly Employed by Your Organization

10-100

Number of Volunteers

101-250

Does your project utilize any of the innovative design principles below? Select a theme below that most applies to your work. If none of them do, no problem, you can skip this question.

Redefine "Work: create flexible income generation opportunities or formalize jobs that have been historically considered informal or insecure

Is your project targeted at solving any of the following key barriers? Select a theme below that most applies to your work. If none of them do, no problem, you can skip this question.

Comments

Magatte Camara's picture

Nice work!!! I'm impressed by all the awards you have received so far and I hope you 'll get more.
Courage!!!

Evariste AOHOUI's picture

Many Thanks, my dear Magarette CCamara

It is a very good project and I congratulates its leaders. It provides jobs to actual 25 people and It may grow further if they find financial support.It has an unique effective approach of recycling in a sens they also take electronics on account. The social impact will grow bigger if the environment is in need of these cleaners. With: "developing a strategy of re-investment of the ROI we are making untill we have enough financial resources to go the next step on our project" it shows us the sustainability of the project.
Good luck

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