Mapping, Targeting, and Training Benin’s Future Leaders

Batonga strives to go “beyond the paved road,” and reach girls who are “invisible” or typically left out of traditional education and development initiatives. Batonga implemented Mapping, Targeting, and Training Benin’s Future Leaders, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. Goals of this partnership:

• Identify and engage the most off-track girls (aged 15–24) living in Savalou and Bohicon, Benin in clubs with social and financial-literacy education, a combination of work and life skills, to improve their economic opportunities and future livelihoods.
• Promote coordination and data-driven approaches to girl-centred programming in Benin and Francophone West Africa. To achieve these goals, Batonga followed a four-phase approach.