On Friday, September 20, 2019 in order to engage the Ivorian population in general and its youth in particular in the good practices, PLANETE PAIX carried out actions of cleaning and sanitation in several localities including Yopougon and Cocody through its program : “To each his trash”.
Through this activity, the Organization intends to celebrate peace, but, above all, to sensitize the population in general and Youth in particular about good practices in the field of hygiene and sanitation of their environment. The populations were invited to a responsible and eco-aware behavior.

The Champions of Peace, Sanitation and Public Hygiene in collaboration with other organizations and institutions including U-Report, AESEC and the CHU cocody proceeded to the collection of garbage, plastic bags and cleaning
in these localities while sensitizing the populations on the benefits of a healthy environment.

This eco-citizen behavior is a gesture of peace, and in line with the words of President Félix Houphouët Boigny “Peace is not an empty word, but, a behavior”, theme chosen for the International Day of Peace 2019. The Presidents of different sections have all call the different populations to a change of behavior for their well-being and well-being.

On the eve of the International Peace Day of September 21, 2019 from 09:00 to 12:00, PLANÈTE PAIX KOUMASSI in collaboration with US Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire has proceeded to the capacity building on US programs of about 100 Young people of KOUMASSI at the Cisse Check Salah youth center in district 05.
Young people are indeed, very interested in the opportunities offered by developed countries. These offers are made available to young people via the embassies of these foreign countries. But, few young people have echoed these programs and the youth of KOUMASSI, unfortunately, is no exception. Some of these opportunities will help young people to take effective actions in order to impact their, for sustainable development. The Embassy of the United States of America in Côte d’Ivoire, through the “American Programs” and “American Spaces” offers opportunities for training, studies or even work in Cote d’Ivoire and abroad especially in the United States.
The objective of the activity was to make participants understand that the American Programs are effective tools for a peaceful, dynamic, committed and responsible youth for sustainable development and to get them to join the programs.
In her speech, Mrs. Ellen PETERSON, Cultural Attaché of US Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire encouraged young people to join US programs by stressing the importance of programs and how these tools could be used to change and significantly improve their lives and those of their community.
Mr. YAO Loukou Meyrieux, Coordinator of the American Space show the opportunities related to the American Center, the American Spaces and the American Corners. Then, Mr KOFFI Guy Honore, Cultural Affairs Specialist of US Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire, presented the opportunities offered by the US State Department by explaining the various existing programs. Finally, the Organization’s Central Chairperson, Mr. Achille COMOE, a Yali Techcamp Alumnus, took the floor and thanked the participants for their interest in the activity before giving them some tips for submitting their files. . This activity was done in collaboration with the Koumassi City Council and US Embassy in Côte d’Ivoire.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019 PLANETE PEACE attended a meeting with the civic service in order to prepare the International Volunteer Day (IVD) in the conference room of the SCAED at II Plateau Vallon city Lemania, at 10 a.m. The theme of this event which will take place on December 05 and 06 in Man is: “VOLUNTEERING FOR AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE”. Commissions have been formed for this purpose, namely:

1- Communication and mobilization (creation of Facebook page, and a Watsapp group);
2- Reception and protocol;
3- Accommodation and catering;
4- Transport and logistics;
5- Health and safety.
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The agenda was:
1- Information
2- Activities to be carried out
3- The various

As part of the activities to be carried out, the volunteers proposed a communication on the central theme, a blood donation, an awareness campaign for young people on volunteering, a planting of a tree for the day of December 05. There will be speeches and speeches, testimonies of some volunteers from the sketches, a procession to the place of the ceremony at the university on December 06, 2020. The IVD will be crowned with film screenings or an interview followed by graduation.

From September 17 to 19, 2019, the strengthening workshop was held
capacities of young people at the National Center for Scientific Materials, located in Cocody Saint-Jean. The workshop, organized as part of International Youth Day under the theme “Transforming Education”, brought together 64 youth organizations including PLANETE PEACE out of 67 expected. It was intended for Presidents, Secretaries General and Treasurers General. A total of 189 young people participated in the workshop, which was opened by the Director of Community Life and Youth Capacity Building. It aimed to improve associative governance. To achieve this, the following modules have been delivered successively:
– Leadership development by Mr. YAO Aquilas,
Consultant, Leadership and Development Trainer;
– Associative governance and civic responsibility, Mr. Béma COULIBALY,
Director of Volunteering and Community Programs at
State Secretariat responsible for Civic Service;
– Correspondence writing techniques, by the Commander
OULEÏ Bonaventure, Teacher-Trainer at the National School
Administration;
– Meeting management, by Commander OULEÏ Bonaventure,
Teacher-Trainer at the National School of Administration;
– Associative governance, by Mr. DIOMANDE Lassiné,
Director of Associative Life and Capacity Building
Youth;
– Debate techniques, by Mr. FIENI Pacôme, coach
Public speaking trainer.
Module 1: Leadership Development
The trainer emphasized the different stages of evolution of a
group, namely:
– Stage 1: childhood, team training;
– Stage 2: adolescence;
– Stage 3: adulthood;
– Stage 4: mature age;
– Stage 5: decline.
It emerges from this presentation that the president’s staff have 5 needs which are:
– need for security,
– need of recognition,
– need to belong,
– need for progression,
– need for accomplishment.
All in all, it should be remembered that the greatest quality of a leader is to work to build a team that is both interdependent in his presence and autonomous in his absence.
Module 2: Associative governance and good citizenship
The trainer defined citizenship as the virtues that qualify the good behavior of the citizen within his Community and within his Nation. He then developed the 4 Principles of Civicism which are:
– respect for the Institutions;
– dedication for his Nation;
– respect for the Public Thing;
– National Solidarity.
The five Symbols of the Republic, namely the National Emblem, the
Motto, the National Anthem, the Coat of Arms and the Portrait of the Head of State were also explained.
Bringing civic responsibility to the voluntary sector, it revealed the
characteristics of the good citizen in the associative field. So the
President or citizen member of a youth organization is one who:
– respects and maintains the goods of his association,
– pay the contributions fixed by his association,
– regularly organize the meetings provided for by the texts,
– agrees to leave when he is reached by the age limit or when he
is beaten in the elections,
– refuses to modify the texts to maintain themselves.
Module 3: Writing correspondence
The trainer gave general information on administrative drafting before highlighting the report and the report.
As for generalities, in addition to the characteristics of the
administrative writing, expressions expressing respect for
hierarchy were presented. The typology of administrative documents highlighted the administrative letter in personal form, the administrative note, the minutes, the report, the report, the certificate, the attestation and the notice and press release.
In particular, the report can take several forms: activity report, mission report or meeting report. As for the report, which is the telling of facts to report to his superior, it comes in several forms: activity report, handover report, study report, inspection report and disciplinary report. Regarding meeting management, it is the set of techniques and methods for effectively organizing meetings to inform,
communicate goals, solve problems; in short, to get a better profit for both the structure and the
participants. The role of each actor has been defined in meeting management as well as the different phases of meeting management.

Module 4: Associative governance
After defining the association according to article 1 of law n ° 60-315 of September 21, 1960, the different types of associations were presented: Registered associations and associations recognized as being of public utility. The associations declared are those which have submitted a request for declaration to the prefecture or sub-prefecture of their place of practice.
The following must be attached to the declaration request:
* 3 copies of the statutes;
* 3 copies of the internal regulations;
* 3 copies of the minutes of the General Assembly
 Constitutive;
* 3 copies of the list of founding members;
* 3 copies of the list of the management body with opposite
 names: function, profession, nationality, age,
 the mailing address of each of its members.
Recognized associations of public utility, are those which benefit
of subsidy entered in the state budget.
Associations in general can receive donations and legacies under
condition of an authorization given by decree of the Prefect of the Department
where is the headquarters of the establishment when the value of the gift is
less than or equal to ten million (10,000,000) CFA francs, and by decree
taken in the Council of Ministers when liberality exceeds ten million.
The management of an association is essentially based on organs:
the General Assembly (GA), the Board of Directors (CA), the Bureau
Executive (BE) (or Executive Council (CE), Management Council (CG)) and the
Statutory auditor (CC). The role of each of these bodies has been
defined.
Dissolution is the act by which the association is no longer recognized. She
can be either voluntary or statutory or forced.
The management of an association is administrative, financial and
accounting.
Module 5: Debating techniques
The trainer defined the debate as a discussion, a speech aimed at
to bring the contradiction to one or more adversaries over one or more
topics.
To better approach a debate, it is necessary:
– know the subject and forge his conviction;
– know your opponent;
– to know the recipients of his message;
– to be relevant, precise and clear in the expression of his thesis;
– to seek to destabilize the opponent;
– to know how to make concessions.
A debaterer’s argument must be based on facts, constructions
social, scientific knowledge, data from the experience of
life, thoughts, assertions of authority and testimonies.
In total, to build your argument, you must:
 capture the benevolence of the target audience;
 clearly state your thesis by locating the difference with the opponent;
 put forward its arguments;
 refute the arguments of the opposing thesis;
 conclude by reiterating its position.
The capacity building workshop for young associative leaders,
ended with the closing ceremony chaired by Mr. Mamadou
TOURE, Minister of Youth Promotion and Youth Employment.
In his speech he affirmed that strengthening the capacities of young people
“Will necessarily have a positive impact on our society”. Monsieur the
Minister also denounced the behavior of young people who
profaned the grave of Dj Arafat on August 03, 2019. He said that one cannot
not reduce the youth to this incident because the Ivorian youth are
all these young people who, despite their precarious living conditions, get up
every day to contribute to the transformation of our society. The
youth of Côte d’Ivoire, it is also these youth leaders who
participate in the development of Côte d’Ivoire.
To participants who have received lessons, among others, on the
citizenship, he urged them to engage in the public interest.
The ceremony ended with the delivery of the end of training certificate.

Cote d’Ivoire’s economy is booming, but its politics look wobbly

An election next year risks pushing the country back into conflict

Few west african countries excite investors quite as much as Cote d’Ivoire. Its economy, which is forecast to expand by more than 7% this year and next, is among the fastest growing in Africa. Its efforts to cut red tape and make it easier to start a company or get loans have won praise from private firms and multilateral institutions, such as the imf and World Bank—which has bumped it up by 25 places on its “ease of doing business” index since 2015. On September 23rd Standard Chartered, a bank, ranked it top of its list of 20 countries that have the most potential to trade.

Much of the credit for this economic boom goes to Alassane Ouattara, a former economist who has been president since 2011. During his term the government has sold stakes in state-owned companies and invested in new roads and other infrastructure. But economic reform has not been matched by political change, prompting worries ahead of a presidential election next year that the country may slip back into conflict. A disputed election in 2010 led to a dreadful year-long civil war.

The first concern is over Mr Ouattara, who may blot his copybook by trying to run for a third term. This would seem to be in breach of the two-term limit that was written into a new constitution in 2016. But Mr Ouattara said in an interview with a French magazine last year that his first terms do not count and that he could stand for another two, starting next year. Such a move would infuriate the opposition and almost certainly lead to violent unrest, says Achille Comoe of Planete Paix, an Ivorian ngo.

One trick may be to change the constitution to bar people over the age of 75 from running. Although this would bar Mr Ouattara, it would also disqualify his main political rivals, Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo, both former presidents. Mr Ouattara abolished the age limit in 2016, perhaps already then with a view to running again. (Even if he does not run, he may still try to tilt the contest in favour of his ruling rhdp party.)

Few ordinary folk would be unhappy to see Mr Gbagbo disqualified: it was his refusal to concede defeat after he lost the election in 2010 that sparked the civil war that led to the deaths of about 3,000 people. His political career ought surely to have ended in 2011, when Mr Ouattara’s forces winkled him out of his bunker in Abidjan, the country’s commercial capital, or when he was arrested later that year to face charges of war crimes before the International Criminal Court (icc). Yet he still influences Ivorian politics. His acquittal by the icc earlier this year raised fears that he might return to run again, reigniting conflict.

That risk was averted for the time being on September 16th, when the icc’s chief prosecutor appealed against his acquittal. But the long shadow cast by the war still makes many Ivorians nervous, particularly when they look at the state of the army. Although rebels and loyalists were integrated, the army is deeply divided and prone to mutiny. In 2017 some 8,400 disgruntled soldiers—about a third of the total—took over the country’s second city, Bouaké, demanding $8,000 and a house each.

Ivorians strongly endorse the two-term limit for presidents and more than a quarter think their representatives are corrupt. The economy may be booming, but democracy is in a slump. “Politics is still the easiest way to make money,” shrugs André Braud-Mensah, a businessman.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/09/26/ivory-coasts-economy-is-booming-but-its-politics-look-wobbly